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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 586561" data-attributes="member: 177">And my answers are:1)Somewhat, insofar as magic items are hideously expensive.  So, it rather depends on how much wealth you've got around, and how many spellcasters with the proper feat in the kingdom. Plus, it depends on how close to history your game runs.  In the real wotrld, standing armies were tiny things.  The masses were called up only at need, and you wouldn't be handing out expensive weapons to people who weren't permanently in your employ.  Rather than say that they are made "for the army", you'd be better off thinking "were comissioned by the king for his trusted men".  Most of these trusted men would be included when the king called for troops to fight.  2)As above - the nobility and knights would probably get such weapons.  Note that footsoldiers were generally poorly equipped in the real world, and IIRC they weren't exactly well-respected.  One does not give magic items to cannon fodder who are doomed to die and lose them.3)Surplus?  You probably don't have that many magic weapons to have surplus.  They'd get into civilian hands by gift of the king, or by scavanging on the battlefield.4)What equipment a soldier would get probably depends on how likley he was to die.  Anything magical on a dead soldier is lost.  So, those commoners that make up the bulk of your army won't have diddly.  Even the low-level warriors won't have much.</blockquote>