About this mod
Simple mod that adds crusader armors themed around various real-life Christian military orders. Craftable and temperable. Requires the Divine Crusader creation from the Creation Club.
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This simple mod lets you use modified versions of the Divine Crusader armor from the Creation Club, but with surcoats themed around different Christian military orders from the Crusades. Featured are cuirasses from the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar, the Order of Saint Lazarus, and the Teutonic Knights. With the update you also get the House of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Textures are in 4K and modified from the excellent mod "Skyrim Armor 4K Redux - Crusader Armor" by uoykcuf86 with their permission. Male meshes are the regular Divine Crusader meshes included with the CC creation, while female meshes are from the mod "Practical Female Divine Crusader Armor" by DamnApple, under the blanket permission provided on that mod's page. Helmet is unique, and modified from the existing helmet model by removing the wings.
In order to get this armor, you need to craft it once you have the Advanced Armor perk. Features the same armor rating as the regular Divine Crusader armor but all variants are unenchanted, allowing you to enchant them as you please. It is mainly made of iron and it can be upgraded with an ingot of said material. It is also Survival Mode-friendly.
Included are two variants per each military order. The first variant features the cross style most related to each order, while the "Full Cross" style has a larger Christian cross that is common to all variants, in the colors of each order, of course. Shield not included for now. As for the new variants, neither of them is an exact replica of the armors seen in Kingdom of Heaven, but I made my best. Because I could not find the exact same cross style for the House of Ibelin variant, I instead decided to use the classic cross pattée used by countless crusaders, however I tried for the color scheme to be as exact as possible.
Note: the crosses will look a bit warped on the female meshes. This is not a texture issue, but rather, caused by the way the cuirass mesh is modeled. I used DamnApple's meshes because it still looks better than on the vanilla female meshes. If you can live with that, then you can use your favorite female character to role-play as a crusader. Otherwise, the armor looks better on a male character.
Credit to uoykcuf86 for letting me modify their textures.
Credit to DamnApple for allowing modders to use their meshes as modder's resources.