[quote who="ColonelFlagg" reply="5" id="2742014"]But when you start getting squads (which is really early), isn't 10 damage almost nothing?[/quote] If you have 7 of them dealing it 3 times a turn that's 210 points of unavoidable damage in the first three turns.
[quote who="Voqar" reply="1" id="2736422"]My PC crushes far more demanding games for hours on end.[/quote] This is a bit of a dichotomy isn't it? Obviously those other games aren't "far more demanding" if you can run them fine, but not this :p .
What clothing the different races can equip is defined in the clothing XML. In the CorePantsSkirts.xml file, for each GameItemType node there are SupportedUnitModelType subnodes which determine which models are able to equip that piece of clothing. Changing it by hand looks like it'll be a pain, I'll probably knock something up in C# to do it easier if you can wait a day or two.
Go into the directory where you installed "Elemental: War of Magic" if you see a sub-directory(folder) in there with the name "Elemental War of Magic" then you have incorrectly applied a non-official patch(to put it politely...). That will cause this issue.