Tips for getting better armor/weapons for Generals?

[Al120]

Eh, I was wondering are there ways to get higher quality weapons for newbie generals? Besides trading which seems to not benefit me much. Killing or capturing units doesn't help and if they're fresh level one's they'll sooner die or get maimed than winning a battle from more experinced generals at this point in my game.

I was wondering is the military forge any good? I heard it can make weapons or something, but it seems to do nothing as far as I can tell unless it's only at higher levels? At this point I can't easily march my units to far reaches of the map with such low leveled common gear and armor. Everything else in my faction is secure enough, but with my Cao Cao got his ledendary sword stolen in a defeat and been maimed I wanted to equip the generals and children he has with some thing that isn't trash tier so they can have -SOME- chance at vengence.

[jx]

Go and take weapon and armour smith settlements spread out across the map. every like 5-10 turns you get a shipment of quality weapons and armour :)

[Will]

There are armour/weapon craftsman towns you can capture, they just randomly spawn items.
As for generals, you basically have to either know when and where someone might pop up through events, or capture enemy generals.
The military forge does not make weapons, it just gives you the buffs it says it gives.

[Ninjafroggie]

I took the animal tamer in the far NW corner of the map, upgraded it to lvl 3 (the max), and now every other year or so the dude sends me a nice shiny brand new mount. I noticed farther south (SW of dong zhong's start area) there's a territory that's called weapon foundry or something like that, I presume taking that will spit out new blades every now and then. Upgrading probably improves quality/frequency.

[Darth Alpharius]

Make lvl armour smiths give you Unique Armours the same applies to the Horse Tamer and Weapon Smith