Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26553378-20170411131043

Hi, this suggestion is pretty much me fleshing out the recent thread closed for being insufficient.

First the reason why this would be implemented. It would be implemented for ease of equipping units, primarilly for mass armies. yeah thats pretty much it, it would be a way to automatedly equip units when you hire them.

How it works:

Essentially how this would work is a new "default equipment" button would be available in the unit hiring screen under each unit that can accept different gear, upon clicking this button it would bring up a screen similar to the unit inventory, except rather than being empty it would feature the default armor appearing as well as the default weapon, or the item gif if it is a random faction weapon. the player could then use items from their inventory to change these items (not consuming the item, just changing picture) after doing this when they hire a unit if the items assigned are available in the players inventory (not selected hand or armor slots to avoid units stealing players gear), or in a chest marked with a sword in an item frame the player would get a slight discount per item replaced, but the items would be taken from the provided inventory and used for the hired unit.



I believe that that covers everything, but here is an example in case you do not understand:

Aragorn likes the rangers of the north with their stealth abilities, but he wishes they were faster, and that they would be more capable in melee combat, so he fills nearby chests with wood-elf scout armor and dwarven swords (sorry, not sure if you can replace rangers melee weapon) then he clicks the "Default Equipment" button before hiring his rangers and replaces their normal armor with wood-elven scout armor and their weapons with dwarven swords. after doing this he goes back to the hiring screen and gets a small army of rangers with scout armor and dwarven swords rather than ranger armor and iron daggers at a reduced cost, but soon begins recieving normal rangers again as his chests run out of gear.  