My heavy footmen are all full armed with shields, but it doesn’t work at all. Only works when use the boar tusks.
For one thing, the shields don’t show, not like the shields muggers always carry on the left hand. They just dont take it out.
For another,the shields don’t work,like redusing the damage or avoiding arrows. Heavy footman with shield in his bag take the same damage as pikeman and knight without shield.
If this be fixed will make heavy footman more useful and manufacturing shields be more important.
I really love all the new patches recently, even got some Awesome RTS game experience! 
Hope this game become hotter and better!