roduce weapons the same way you make any other commodity. Open iron mines to get raw material for weapon workshops, which take their finished goods to warehouses.

Ordinary citizens don't demand weapons, nor would you want to supply them if they did! Weapons are often most valuable as exports.

If you wish to build a fort and train legionaries, you will need weapons: each soldier requires one cartload of weapons. The weapons are taken to barracks, where the recruits are trained how to use them. Auxiliary troops, though, do not require weapons; they make do with whatever they can find themselves.