Auxiliary weapons have been in the game for a while. (so okay, they never work quite right…but we can hope)

I don’t know how much trouble it would be to code them, but if you are taking on the gunpowder era then you should have planed for such things as people with pistols.
People at sea had pistols with bayonets! And a Cutlass! Multiple shots should be accounted for in some fashion. It is a value.
I don’t need to see it animated in a charge…(yet!) give them a value of three…god knows they always load too slow anyway…

By the way, do you think they will make the American Cavalry all John Wayne clones?