Equipment swap before upcomming battle

Thank you all for your thoughts on this matter, really appreciated!!

Saranor wrote:

I like to swap some items before the game.

For example, if i have a vial of poison i don't want to use it, if i am up against undead, because most of them are immun and i want to safe it for a better occassion and put it in the stash.

But on the other hand, you can say, you have to give it someone, so he has it with him, in preparation of the fight, but you don't have to use it.
For example you can give the poison a warband member before the game, but he has to decide before the battle starts, if he wants to use it...
The Downside is, if this warband member is put OOA and dies or get robbed, the item is gone too.

i would declare garlic the same way. Normaly you have it wrapped in a towel or in a small chest to keep it fresh, if a fight starts, you can put it out and use it around your neck, but if you don't do this, you can use it another time...

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I prefer the first thing, that you can give items from the stash before the battle to warband members after your enemy is decided (perhaps even after the szenario is decided). This way you don't get confused between used/activatet items and just stashed items.

I really like the idea, of actually "equipping" the warband members with poisons, and other equipment, which then can be used as "one-use-only" items, like popping an item in WoW or something like that. But I would hit someone really hard who ventured into mordheim with a giant keg of bugmans ale on the shoulder of one jolly sing mercenary youngblood, who would have to drag this keg around in combat when not popped in start of the battle.

The fact with the garlic, it should work for the battle from which it was bought for IMO. Not that I have a problem with the fact that it can be carried in a small chest kept around the neck or something as conservative, but I would have to lay down a house rule that only warbands with something special against undead warbands, say sisters of sigmar, or the witch hunters may do this, since they may have adapted some means of conservation of such artifacts used in general vampire hunts throughout the empire.

I agree with RationalLemming, that it is infact a chance encounter - and by this is meant that you'll never know, who your next opponent would be, and weather the fight would be a surprice attack, or something else to say the least. Though with another thought about the scenarios it could be allowed that the "Ambush" or "Surprice attack" or any other scenario, the attacking warband may chose to swap equipment, or pop items as they please, hence to they knowing which warband they are ambushing?
Any thoughts on this?

As for Lord 0:

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If you have a houserule that puts in step 9.5 Decide next opponent, then yes, it is legal to change your gear like garlic and so forth before the next battle. If you are deciding who you are going to fight after updating your warband, then no, it is not legal.

1 Injuries.
2 Allocate experience.
3 Roll on the Exploration chart.
4 Sell Wyrdstone.
5 Check available veterans.
6 Make rarity rolls and buy rare items.
7 Look for Dramatis Personae.
8 Hire new recruits & buy common items.
9 Reallocate equipment.
10 Update your warband rating.

This was my argument of why it couldn't be possible to swap equipment before knowing which warband you would fight next...

Though I must say, this is fruit for thought for future campaigns with more specialized rules in this matter...