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The goal of Heavy Armory is to expand the variety of weapons used in the world of Skyrim in an immersive and lore-friendly way.
If you’re looking for some new and lore-friendly weapons to wield (or get your face bashed in with!), then
look no further! Heavy Armory is the mod for you!

Heavy Armory adds roughly 150 new lore-friendly weapons. All new weapons are spread throughout level lists, so you will encounter them naturally on enemies, in shops, in loot, and as rewards. You can also craft them from any forge (if you have the necessary skill and resources).

• Discover 11 new weapon types, some of which were present in past Elder Scrolls titles: Clubs, Halberds, Hatchets, Glaives, Long Maces, Mauls, Quarterstaves, Shortspears, Shortswords, Spears and Tridents. All have different characteristics, making them individual and interesting to use. Halbers, spears and staves come with new, OAR compatible animations.
  
  
• Some factions (like the Alik'r, Dawnguard, Draugr, Falmer, Forsworn, Imperials and Silver Hand) have their own weapon sets, which were limited to a handful of different weapons. Heavy Armory expands these sets by adding a new weapon options, which in turn makes fighting with or against these factions a lot more dynamic.
  
• Customizability is key! Don't like the new polearms and aim for a more vanilla experience? If you use SkyUI, you'll have acces to a new Heavy Armory MCM menu that allows you to toggle "lite" mode. This disables all Halberds, Spears, and Tridents, but leaves all the other new content.
  

11 new weapon types, 2 new weapon materials, new animations, and seamless integration into the game

EXPANDED WEAPON ROSTER

• Club - Uses Mace perks, and Mace animations
• Halberd - Uses Battle Axe perks, and custom Halberd animations (without OAR, reverts to Battle Axe animations)
• Hatchet - Uses War Axe perks and animations
• Long Mace - Uses Warhammer perks and animations
• Maul - Uses Mace perks and animations
• Quarterstaff - Uses Warhammer perks, and custom Quarterstaff animations (without OAR, reverts to Warhammer animations)
• Shortspear - Uses Sword perks, and custom Shortspear animations (without OAR, reverts to Sword animations)
• Shortsword - Uses Sword perks and animations
• Spear, Glaive, and Trident - Uses Greatsword perks and custom Pike animations (without OAR, reverts to greatsword animations)
  

Each weapon type has stats that fit to their build, making them all fit to different playstyles and fullfill a different function. 


(Values shown here are based on Iron tier)

NEW WEAPON MATERIALS

• Wood - Yes, wooden weapons. You were asking for more weapons, and I gave you the worst! You'll find Wooden weapons on low levels on bandits and hunters. Have mercy on the poor bandit who charges at you with a big stick! You can also craft these weapons yourself without any perk requirements!
• Polished Silver - I like Silver weapons, but I hate that they become obsolete very quickly due to their poor stats. So I made a higher tier, in the same vein as the "Honed" weapons Draugr carry. At higher levels, the Silver Hand will carry these Polished Silver weapons, which are roughly Elven tier in damage.
  Polished SIlver can be crafted after unlcoking the Advanced Armors perk.
  

In the future I plan to add more of these "honed" tiers for other weapons like Forsworn and Redguard

CRAFTING

I "unlocked" certain vanilla materials that weren't craftable before. Since I extended those tiers with more weapons, it seemed like a shame to not make them accesible. But, I did try to gate them in a way that makes sense.

• Blades - Craftable with the Orcish Smithing perk, and after completeing Alduin's Wall.
• Dawnguard - Craftable with the Steel Smithing perk and after having completed the Prophet quest.
• Imperial - Craftable with the Steel Smithing perk and after having joined the Imperial Legion.
• Redguard - Craftable with the Advanced Armors perk. No quest requirements.
• Silver - Craftable with the Steel Smithing perk. No quest requirements.
  

If for some reason you don't want these weapons to be craftable, you can easily deactivate them through the Heavy Armory MCM menu. The WACCF patch will disable these recipes by default in favour of WACCF and CCOR's own recipes.

HEAVY ARMORY LITE

If for whatever reason you want to play Heavy Armory without any polearm weapons (Halberds, (Short)spears, Tridents), Heavy Armory gives you the option to switch over into a "Lite" version. This effectively deactiavtes those weapons in your game.
All crafting recipes will be removed and no polearms will spawn anymore. Note that any polearms that were already present in your game will remain. So while it's totally fine to switch betwene version mid-game, for the best experience I advice to settle on one version at the start of a new playthrough.

You switch Lite mod on or off by accesing the Heavy Armory MCM menu. This requires SkyUI.





Heavy Armory makes changes to many level lists throughout the game, so this is bound to "conflict" with some mods. I recommend using Wrye Bash to merge these changes.
Some weapons were added to the Sleeping Giant Inn and Skyhaven Temple. If you have other mods that change these locations, I recommend you load them after Heavy Armory.

Heavy Amory is fully compatible with texture replacers, since all new weapons will use the same textures as the vanilla weapons do.

Soft Requirements
The following mods are "soft requirements" for Heavy Armory. This means you technically don't need them to run the mod, but you won't have acces to all the features

SkyUI - Required for the MCM menu to work, which allows you to toggle Lite mode and certain crafting recipes.
Open Animation replacer (OAR) - Required for new animations to work. Without OAR, some weapons will revert to using vanilla animations, which might look weird.
FormList Manipulator - Patches a few formlists that Heavy Armory edits. Without it, you won't be able to craft new Daedric weapons at the Atronach Forge, for example.
Sound Record Distributor - Only required for the Audio Overhaul for Skyrim and Immersive Sounds - Compendium patches.
Constructible Object Custom Keyword System - With this mod, all new Silver weapons (including Polished) will be grouped into a Silver category in the Crafting menu.


Patches
The FOMOD installer includes patches for the following mods:

Animated Armory - Merges level list changes. When installing, let Heavy Armory win any file conflicts.
Amidianborn Book Of Silence - Adds new textures for Heavy Armory's Skyforge weapons. Amidianborn Content Addon is also supported, but has a page available on their page.
Audio Overhaul for Skyrim - .yaml file patch. Requires Sound Record Distributor!
Cathedral - Armory - Applies Cathedral's textures and material setting to Heavy Armory's weapons.
Creation Club - Fishing - Resolves conflicts between new Draugr weapons added by Heavy Armory and Fishing.
Creation Club - Expanded Crosbow Pack & Rare Curios - Adds a new Polished Silver Crossbow and Bolts
Crossbow Integration, KACHUNK, THWACK, Rare Curios - Bolt Expanded - Combined with the Creation Club patches above, merges those new Crossbow and Bolts into the integration provided by these mods.
Complete Crafting Overhaul Remastered and Weapons Armor Clothing and Clutter Fixes - Applies balance and crafting changes from those mods.
Frankly HD Dawnguard - Applies new Cubemaps by FrankFamily to Heavy Armory's Dawnguard weapons
Frankly HD Imperial - Applies new Cubemaps by FrankFamily to Heavy Armory's Imperial weapons
HD Falmer Glow - Applies a glow texture to all Heavy Armory Falmer weapons
Immersive Sounds - Compendium - .yaml file patch. Requires Sound Record Distributor!
Refractive Stalhrim - Applies the new textures, parallax effect, and needed mesh edits from Refractive Stalhrim to all Heavy Armory Stalhrim weapons. Glow and non-glow version available.
Resurgence - Applies Resurgence textures and material settings to Heavy Armory's weapons. Choose between an AIO installation, or select the individual sets you want.
Rudy HQ - More Lights for ENB SE - Daedric Weapons and Armor - Applies ENB light to all new Daedric weapons. Combination patches with Cathedral and Resurgence are also available.
Runed Nordic Weapons (Replacer) - Adds glowing runes to Nordic and Nord Hero weapons.
Stalhrim Refrozen - Applies the new textures and parallax effect to all Heavy Armory Stalhrim weapons.
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch (USSEP) - Forwards a couple of changes.
Tamrielic Distribution - Includes a patch for the Wares of Tamriel module, merging changes made to the Alik'r warriors. Als includes a patch for the Expanded Crossbow Pack module.


Recommened Mods

Bound Armory Extravaganza - Adds bound versions of all Heavy Armory weapons.
Object Categorization Framework - Heavy Armory shares it's keywords with OCF, so any animation mod compatible with OCF should work with Heavy Armory too!
Smith Armory Inventory Overhaul - Changes vendors invenory to make sense to their location and context (f.e. smiths in Markath sell Silver, and Orcish vendors sell Orcish, etc.). Comes with integrated support for Heavy Armory, so you can see this mod as an HA extention of sorts.
Thalmor Rearmed - Overhauls the equipment of Thalmor soldiers, making them more varied while keeping a vanilla+ experience. Also supports Heavy Armory

Do texture replacers work with Heavy Armory?
Yes, as long as they override the original Skyrim textures.

Does (Mod X) conflict with Heavy Armory?
See the Compatibility section above. Also, remember that Wrye Bash is your friend.

Will you create a patch for (Mod X)?
I'll likely create a patch for any mod I use myself, but I won't invest time in patching for every mod conflict reported. I'm totally fine with people creating their own patches and sharing them though.

Will animation (Mod Y) work with Heavy Armory?
I can't say. Try it out and let me know.

The game crahses!
If you are on a Skyrim version below 1.6.1130 and expierence crashes, then you'll need to install BEES.

Weapons appear invisible!
This seems to be related to the BSA archive not loading correctly. Try downloading the mod again and reinstalling. This is known to fix the issue.
The mod installer also comes with an option to install all mesh files unpacked into your Data directory. This should also fix the problem.

I don't like Spears, Halberds and Tridents!
Heavy Armory comes with an MCM menu that let's you switch to a "Lite" mode. This means all polearm weapons will be deactivated. They won't spawn in game and can't be crafted.

I switched to Lite mode but polearm weapons still appear!
Crafting options for these weapons should be disabled right away, and they won't spawn new into the world. But if they were already loaded into any cell you've visted before, these weapons will remain there untill the cell is reset.

Does this mod only work with OAR, or can I also use DAR?
I would really advice you to switch to OAR at this point. But if for some reason you insist on using DAR, you can get a patch over here. This mod was made with Animated Armoury in mind, but since HA uses the same animations and folder structure, it should be compatible.

Can I translate Heavy Armory into another language?
I’d be happy if you did!

Can I use assets from your mod for my own mod project?
Sure! But I’d ask you to notify me either through a PM or in the comment section (don't worry, you don't have to wait for a reply). Credits and a link back to my mod here would be appreciated.

Thank you! Yes, you! Everybody who ever downloaded, endorsed and/or commented on this mod. It’s because of you guys that I continue working on this stuff.
All the support means a lot to me and I’m happy that there are people who enjoy using my mods. Thanks for sticking around over the years!

 Also, a special thanks to...

 DrMonops, for without his help and guidance, Heavy Armory would not be the mod that it is today.
Petepocalypse, for his Resurgence patches
titanbass1, for the Cathedral patch, and various other patches
NickaNak, for allowing me to integrate AA's animation files.