Equipping your NPC soldiers

So I got this idea while fighting 2 T rexes with my NPC soldiers. Why can't I equip my soldiers with my own armor? Now I realize that the more geared players will use this to their advantage by equipping em with godly gear, but in order to counterract this they can't use non-vanilla weapons or armor( Sesmics, Staffs, Dragonstone helms, etc.) AND you are also not able to equip them with diamond armor. Also I would like to see another NPC soldier, the Knight. This is basically just if the armor equipping feature doesn't go. He just has Iron Armor with a diamond sword. So tell me what you think of these ideas, and if you have other NPC soldier suggestions put em down below!

 

I like the knight

 

I was think maybe you could outfit your NPCs with different ranks of gear depending on the wealth of your clan/army.
Also, I think it could be cool to issue commands, like making an offensive push with the battering ram or having archers shoot a volley of arrows on defense.
Possibly to balance out the stronger weapons, you could have the Head Knight, who has more health, better armor and weapon of your choosing.
Finally, I think we should have different classes of NPCs, like archers/snipers, mages, knights, and assassins for starters, with each of them becoming more powerful, the more you upgrade your military gear.

 

jesus fuck, this is a whole new level of necromancy...