Equipping skeletons

[Sprucery]

My HEMo of Nemelex has been exploiting the hell out of Animate Skeleton, casting it on all applicable corpses. Can anyone tell me how it is decided whether an animated skeleton wields the weapon and/or wears the armour of its previous living self? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

I seem to have noticed that if the corpse has rotted to a skeleton before the animation, the skeleton will never wield or wear anything. But this may be just an illusion based on a small sample.

[jejorda2]

I thought it always used the equipment if nothing ever picked it up after it died. I've never waited for a corpse to rot before casting animate skeleton.

[Siegurt]

If a corpse rots into a skeleton it looses it's equipment, this also happens if you pick up and drop the corpse, or if anything else dies on it's square (and drops any equipment or corpses) or if you leave the level and come back, or if you pick up any of the equipment and drop it again.

It will only equip melee weapons and body armour.

[zardo]

Will the ally weapon settings (CTRL-T I think) affect this?

[Siegurt]

Will the ally weapon settings (CTRL-T I think) affect this?

Nope.