You need to make a footmen without the sword by taking the skin and removing the sword part. If you want to use the old one and add the new weapon your going to need to trigger it.
Events: A unit picks up an item
Conditions: Item is of type(your item)
Actions:Kill Triggering unit.
Create 1 Footmen at position of dying unti facing position of dying unit.
Add (your item) to last created unit.
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory