Can u arm your citizens with weapons?

[Quack]

Hello.. so ... if your town has extra crude weapons.. or even good weapons.. will your regular people.. like.. Fisherman, cobblers.. coopers, candle makers, workers and such arm themselves?

Like i know the soldiers and Hunters arm themselves so they can do their job.. but it feels stupid as hell, if the town has extra weapons, that they just SIT in the vault when an impending raid could be on the horizon..

thanks

[Vrighty]

Nopes, they cannot arm themself.

I have farmers carrying a scythe... they charge into battle, and drop the scythe... because fists deal more damage? What about the pitchforks?

btw, small advice: a soldier if fighting a group of 10 stacked raiders. with 1 hit he damage all of them... keep in mind: if those 10 raiders all aim on the soldier first. he will die fast.
So have a group of 4 soldiers run into about 30 raiders at once. your 4 soldiers will mostlikly win... you maybe lose 1 or 2 of them. Do it next to a barrack with soldiers in it. and you can fight of massive armies.

[SgtScum]

With all the buffs to raiders I think that villagers should at least get to carry a club which would be the existing crude weapons once you get a trade post up.

[Quack]

it 100% makes ZERO sense for villagers to keep weapons in the VAULT till every villager is armed, DEvs, action it up

[DiViNe NeKO]

Setup more hunter cabins early game, you can make around 20 cabins but disable about 1/2 of them and tweak numbers as needed Hunters dont need a gold salary like Soldiers or Towers.

The only problem is that you cant set rally point for hunters so it works better for defense

[Furin]

As weapons and armor degrades very quickly simply by being worn (example, guards in guard towers that just sit there for 99% of the time), arming everyone would put a huge stress on the economy in it's current state. There is a mod for arming everyone on the Nexus. Try it and see how it impacts your economy and city looks :)

[SgtScum]

I don't think anyone is asking for villagers to be running around in full plate and armed with crossbows and halberds. Just hide coats and a crude weapon so that a raider or two can't wipe out your entire village. Kill a fair amount of villagers before being taken down? Yes, but not just go on a genocidal spree.

[momodave]

Back in the middle ages it wasn't rare for peasants to be drafted and sent to the front line. They basically used long range melee weapons such as pitchforks, shovels, spears, etc. Some even had bows and arrows. Let's not mention defending their crops, possessions, and herds from animals and/or thieves/criminals.