Combat Systems Equipping the Conscripts

Okay, so I was thinking about last year in DragonRealms the whole big war in Shard thing. I was thinking about the NPC conscripts. What if, a commander or his/her lieutenants were to collect enough arms and armor to upgrade the equipment of say a whole company of elothean archers under their command?

So I propose a new system that ties in to that. If a commander, lieutenant, or captain collects or buys enough of a certain item. In this example, let's say a commander happens to be a high-ranking member of the ranger guild, and he decides to hold extended hunting parties with his lieutenants and captains in Arzmous on Hara'jaal. They kill and perfectly skin 300 of the beasts then tan and cure the skins, cutting them into 150 suits of leather armor. The commander or commanding liutenant then bundles these up into a permanent cache with the superior leather statistics. Which can be appraised to show how many are inside of it. Then they place them either in a special vault, or armory area which gives special vaults to the commanders to hold such things.

Then when the commander gets his conscripts he can, Order his conscripts to Equip from Cache. This command takes several hundred seconds, but when all is done, his conscripts have until he retires them, 150 superior leather armors. This gives his conscripts a morale bonus of +2. After all, they do have a higher chance of living in the finest armors available, and the armors are new so they're very good. The conscripts also gain the protections of the armor, making them harder to hit, and hurt.

The way I see it, is a commander could possibly hire a standing army of soldiers for 5 cp/each a week. This commander could then train these soldiers as he saw fit, which brings me to soldier levels.

Conscripts start at level 1, but later with numberous battle wins against other troops, gain a level, which can then be trained. Once they become level 2, they are now professional soldiers bonded to the commander. After they're dismissed, after the big battle or whatever, a commander may choose to keep a special troop that has served him well available in the town, for use in war time.

The commander has to pay for their continued room and board, and like anyone, he needs to order them to groom, stand at attention, and practice. Practice points accumulate slowly but surely as the commander/lieutenant commands the troops around, drilling them, or even taking them on hunts. Practice points can be used to drill agility, strength, wisdom or any one of the other abilities into troops, as well as possibly teaching the troops new commands and stunts.