They are knights yes? No matter how important the parents the idea of every noble having full plate armour is appropriate only to late medieval period. If you go down that route, why did they not scrounge enough gold to get a better starting unit for them? Or hirer some damn healers and scouts. We can PLAINLY see how much family gold is given to a new noble, and that doesn't cover the expense of full plate armour.
Because units die quickly and you can easily go recruit more?
Armor was already owned by the family, or bought with saving specifically for that purpose. Easy reason why nobles would start with armor without seeing any deductions anywhere.
But who cares what kind of armor it is? Most people have never roleplayed their armor. Then, of those I have seen, I've never been inclined to believe that most who do RP having armor RP it as being full plate.
What is the point of this feature? To make the wealthy bastards who hogg dukeships without ever doing anything invincible? As if wounding them seriously enough to make them lose their position wasn't hard enough already.
This feature adds nothing to the game, it just gives incentives to whore gold and makes stronger those who do.
