One of my favorite features from Ancient Warfare 2 was the ability to accumulate an army. The concept was simple. You could conscript soldiers via crafting recipe including food, gold and a basic tool, the tool was a wooden sword for soldier types - there were other NPC types as well.

As a user, I would like to craft soldiers.

• Crafting recipe must be easily attainable - think early game after setting up a base
• Entities would spawn with nothing in their inventories, a blank slate

OPTIONAL
A nice to have feature that would go with this is the ability for NPCs to pick up items. In Ancient Warfare, this was a bit basic and messy. They only had armor/weapon inventories. Due to this NPCs would sometimes throw out weapons that the logic deemed was weaker, when in reality they'd sometimes throw out Chaotic level weaponry from Draconic Evolution (big sad). It'd be great if they at the very least picked up armor/weapons if they did not already one filling a slot. This way an army conveyor could be created to suit them up!