Heavy New Legion
⚪ Last updated 2020⚠️ Install Order · 7 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 4.4% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #190 of 228 Armour mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
New Legion is a great mod, but the manica felt a little off. Historically, the manica covered the entire arm, with only a piece of cloth below it. In New Legion, it was built on top of a leather glove, which made it look too fat, in relation to the rest of the armor. The boots also had a similar look, making the soldiers look like Stay Puft.
However, NordwarUA have another imperial armor mod called Heavy Legion. In this one, the gauntlets and boots are made of plate, but the other armors were not better than the ones in New Legion. For one, I would miss the chainmail, which is a great addition, since there is a lack of mail armors.
So I decided to combine the heavy armor from the Heavy Legion mod into the New Legion mod. The gauntlets caused a lot of clipping, so I ported the cuirass together with the gauntlets and boots. You will still see some clipping with the legate armor, but you dont see a legate every day.
The meshes were renamed to the ones in the New Legion mod, while the texture path was preserved to the form found in the Heavy Legion mod.
The medium bracers were replaced with the light bracers of New Legion. Both now have the same appearance.
Check the screenshots for comparisons.
Heavy New Legion is a compatibility patch that swaps the heavy armor from the New Legion mod with the heavy armor from the Heavy Legion mod, both by NordwarUA. It's for players who prefer the Heavy Legion's aesthetic on New Legion units. With 240 endorsements and 5,440 downloads, it's a niche but established tweak.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved (240 endorsements) for a niche patch
- Straightforward purpose: swaps armor visuals to Heavy Legion style
- Decent download count (5,440) shows it's been used by many
⚠️ Cons
- Requires both New Legion and Heavy Legion mods installed to work
- Only affects heavy armor, not other armor types or gameplay
- No updates since 2020, so may be incompatible with newer mod versions
For Skyrim modders who use both New Legion and Heavy Legion and prefer the Heavy Legion's heavy armor look on New Legion units. Skip if you don't use those mods or want gameplay changes—this is purely a visual compatibility tweak.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Load this patch after both New Legion and Heavy Legion in your mod order to ensure it overrides correctly.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to easily toggle this patch on and off if you want to compare armor styles.
- Check the mod pages for New Legion and Heavy Legion to confirm they are compatible with your Skyrim version (SE/LE).
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- NordwarUA
- Version
- 1.0
- Downloads
- 5,440
- Endorsements
- 240
- Category
- Armour
- Created
- 1/25/2020
- Updated
- 1/25/2020
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