Make footman/bloodelf use Defend Animation Constant without Defend Ability?

is it possible to get footmen or the bloodelf breakers to just always be walking around natively with their sheilds out without having to use the defend ability? or any ability

Hmm.. Perhaps give them a dummy defend ability and make them cast it, then remove it? Or would that also remove the animation... Hmm...

no i dont want to use any ability.

In the object editor, in the units, find the field "Art - Required Animation Names" and add the "defend" word.

The footman will use that animation by default.

Off topic: lol 2999 post, i think it's goodbye..

thanks. it works perfectly!