Nope. Only from high level notables. Unless you mod.

No, im sure he means 500 to 600 turns. Note the hyphen   -----

The game has a hard on for Archers.  Every damn time I get a new tech, the game tells me I have a new archer design.  Hey, good job researching hedge walls, here is a new archer!

Um... there is an option, it's called "retire" in the unit design.

This stuff is so rare I've never actually been able to create a unit with full legendary gear.  If the high-level notables would actually respawn, it might be doable, but on anything short of huge maps there just aren't enough of them to actually get enough elementium to work with.  Kinda moot anyways since I'm just toying around with the AI by the time I'm actually far enough into the game to use the stuff...

I'm in my first long game of Elemental right now and i was assuming the metal would be a high level smelting technology. Sad to hear that it is not.... but the point is, my assumption does indicate a good way of introducing the metal into production in the game!

Plus, whats the point of Elementium, when the armor it creates isn't even the best, or even close?  Heavy Master armor is far better, and all you need for that is a bunch of iron.  Would be a lot cooler if this rare element could be produced to make something really good.

In a mod I work on occationally elementium will be used to create gear that grants spell-like abilities to units (such as enabling the creation of a paladin unit that can use heal). Also the Spell of Making will be altered to give elementium when it is not a victory condition.

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I could be wrong, but I believe the Legendary armour has no combat speed penalty. Granted the penalty isn't huge for a full plate suit (it's what, -0.1 for each piece? So with arms, legs, body, shield and helmet it's just -0.5, not a huge penalty), but if you had a force of heavy soldiers armed with full Legendary armour, equipped with swords, steeds, and items that increased combat speed, they would be VERY deadly.

Also, since Legendary armour comes from the magic/sorcery research trees (I believe, I may be incorrect), it would actually be easy to get that armour a lot quicker that the very high level mundane armour.

Edit:Additional: The only real use I get out of Legendary armour at the moment is buying it at the item shop and equipping my Sovereign with it. Makes him stand out a bit from the rank and file.

Elementium certainly isnt plentium in the game . Theres a quest that gives Enchanged Armor which has good defence, and after some research you get the option to buy Elementium Kalamazoo Sword that costs - 12000 goldozers . Havent encountered a quest where you get the sword.. I would have sold it to get 1/4th of that gold..

Au contrare.  It might not be as flammable as gasoline, but diesel will explode and burn.  I've even seen it happen.  A few years ago, I was living in Houston and a diesel fuel tanker flipped while on I-45 which is the main north-ish/south-ish freeway through Houston, extremely busy with a lot of lanes (can't quite remember, like 6 lanes at least each way).  It actually slid upside-down over the concrete divider between the northbound and southbound lanes, simultaneously ripping its tanks open and the sparks caused the diesel to ignite.

The ensuing firestorm actually cooked the concrete on the freeway, killed several teenagers driving in a car near the truck when it flipped and exploded, and the burning diesel ran off the freeway and down to a major roadway below the freeway, a river of liquid fire.

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