Base defense and equiping soldiers

[dorphin]

from what i have hear and read on the forums and building destroyed or dammaged will also be damaged or destroyed on the base screen

now i wonder is it posible to re-equip your soldiers before the combat meaning that for exampel in my default chinook setup i have one guy with a bazooka but since this will be a base defense and i want to avoid damage too my building can i re-equip him to a rifle before the fighting starts:confused:

i know base defense isn't implemented yet but this is just something i'm thinking about with the only reason i dont want that bazook cuz if i use it most likely with the x-com acuaracy style i'll blow out half of my hangar's walls instead of the alien

have a fine day

[spinaljack]

I assume the soliders on standby only have what they're equipped with but that doesn't stop you from dropping the rocket launcher and picking up a new gun during combat, maybe make a run to the armoury/store room or maybe there are gun racks around the base.

Maybe design your base layout with this in mind.

[Gorlom]

that is assuming that unequipped weapons will be available and placed as world objects or something in the base missions...

[boerboon]

Is there different kinds of alien base attacks? It would be interesting in the event of sneak attack you have your soldiers placed randomly with their standard equipment... or some are not equipment at all (they are on their down time) and you have to get them to the armoury. That would suck if half of them where stuck with the invading aliens between them and the armoury.

Maybe in the attacks that are known to be coming one gets to equip their troops and place them in the base before that attack?