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So in my Italy campaign, my army has neglected to upgrade at all, and its post unification. I was hoping unification was the problem but no dice on any army upgrades. I completed Muzzle Loaded Rifle research int he '50s and Breach loaded earlier this decade, but my units are all still in their original states. Even worse, I cannot even recruit upgraded units because the force pool never upgraded to the new units. If anyone knows a script that will force an upgrade it would be much appreciated. Again, game is attached so you can see for yourself

Problem exists regardless if I use 1.03eFull or 1.04 RC2

I know that existing naval units upgrade when they receive replacement ships for ships that have been sunk in that unit. Sometimes they will even receive technologically advanced ships that require tech that you have not even researched yet (a known bug). Maybe something similar applies to land units, you might need to get replacements for lost elements in order to see any upgrades in an existing land unit.

My land units have always upgraded automatically, and they are in fact supposed to. Usually you get the message "the soldiers of (UNIT NAME) have been successfully trained." For some, reason only soldiers in my italian game fail to do that. I have seen in the italy AAR's that their troops do automatically upgrade. Just wondering if anyone has had this or knows a script to force the upgrade events.

There is definitely something wrong. Some of your units have upgraded a little (mostly artillery - you have several old bronze looking guns and some newer iron guns - check out the Italian force inside Parma in region PO, and Garibaldi has upgraded light infantry with him). I ran a few turns, and nothing upgraded for me either. You should be building ironclad ships, so that isn't working either. Unfortunately this is beyond my abilities to troubleshoot.

Do you remember the order of researching techs? For example, if you get the artillery in the wrong order, your guns will never upgrade past a certain point (it has to do with breech-loading guns and iron muzzle loading I think). Sagji had pointed that out on the paradox forums several years ago. I can't remember which 2 techs are involved, but they stop the progression of artillery. I am not sure if it happens with other combinations for land forces.

I researched the techs in the order they appeared as far as I remember. For Inf/Cav I researched muzzle loaded first, then breach loading rifles. Muzzle loaded rifles has always moved my forces to the 1850-70 model and breach loaded has always upgraded those unites to the 1870-90 model. I'm not sure why this is happening, as I have other games going and they all work fine, just Italy is a problem. As for artillery, I do not remember the order I researched the techs in but those have actually upgraded fine for me.