Well done, thanks!

This does seem rather under-developed at the moment. I have both Silindros the Avenger and Slough the Boglord in my current game. Silindros is clearly intended as a melee character but can't equip any melee weapons. The only weapons I've found which he can use are bows, and not all bows. I'm not quite sure why he can use some bows but not others. Is he allowed to use bows which are not considered magical? Also, with the weapons as they currently are, being able to use swords is far better than being able to use axes. There are a dozen different types of sword, but I've only seen one axe. Are there missing weapons from the game? Are there missing weapon categories from the game? I have wondered if Silindros was supposed to use spears/ lances, but they don't currently exist.

This is Working as Designed for the moment. Hooking up all 7 Minor Heroes to have swappable weapons was going to be significant work, so we made the call before 1.0 and we decided our time was better spent elsewhere  

I'd love to see it get implemented for 1.3 or 1.4 though...I'll bring it back up to Brad and the team!

I'm not sure whether it's "swappable" or not which is the issue at the moment. What I do know is that Silindros the Avenger can only equip bows in my current game. And his skill tree allows him to acquire an extra counter-attack... which is useless if using a ranged weapon.

His entire skill tree seems themed around hitting people with melee weapons (e.g. flank attack, charge), but he currently cannot equip a melee weapon. And that does seem rather odd.

Avenger should be a sword (in the absence of spears or lances), Boglord might as well be an axe (so there is more than one hero who can equip axes). I've not seen Ifris the Engulfed; what does his skill tree look like? I assume he's not an obvious ranged or magic wielding hero? In which case currently the only two melee options are swords or axes. Swords are generally better than axes, but having said that, even being only able to use axes would be better than not able to equip anything at all!

Numerous units can't equip weapons - soldiers (other than Varda's bodyguard) can't equip swords, nor can knights or sentinels