In the current game, when villagers are conscripted as soldiers, they will go back to retrieve their equipment at a steady pace.
In fact, when villagers are about to become soldiers and go back to retrieve weapons and equipment, their morale should be high, and they should not walk slowly as usual. They should run forward and increase their movement speed by more than 30%, which is more reasonable.
Oddly I disagree. If you rely on having no standing army being paid why get a benefit with faster equipped soldiers? Just cause someone is given a sword and shield doesn’t mean they would be proficient in it.
I like having no standing army too, but there are ways around it with where you store the equipment in relation to the forts/towers.