Quote Originally Posted by ichi
For example, if you train a unit in a province with an armor upgrade building, then retrain it (either as a full or depleted unit) in a province with a weapon upgrade building, you'll get a unit with armor and weapons. You can get a similar effect when merging - I always drop unarmored units, regardless of valor, onto armored units when merging thereby getting free armor for a few troops.
Hmm, I was under the impression from posts read long ago that the equipment/moral/valor of each man in each unit was tracked and that the icons only gave an average of the stats. For example, if you merge 30 V.0 FMAA and 20 V.3 FMAA you get 50 that show valor 1, but really you have 30 V.0 and 20 V.3 men in your unit. With equipment, the icon will show the equipment level of the majority of the men in the unit. Can anyone confirm this?