It looks like when I remove soldiers from their jobs they lose their weapons? Do they put them in storage when fired from barracks? When I rehire them do they take new weapons or weapons from storage?
When you remove soldiers it stocks their equipment into the nearest available storage building; When you rehire them they will go fetch those.
So I could build regular storage building but then turn off all the other items via check box, except weapons? Then they would only store them in one storage location? I wonder if a good suggestion would be that Barracks could be a storage for weapons. But still have the ability to CHOOSE to store weapons in storage via the check boxes? Weapons should not have a shelf life also yes? Tools also?
Yeah, typically I store my weapons and armor only in the storage cart and move it to a well-defended location during raids to avoid being looted.
Most weapons have a life span of 12 years, tool 10 years. At least that’s what the wiki says (Resources - Farthest Frontier). And I think only the time they’re being used counts, so they won’t spoil if you just store them.