Does anyone know of an easy way to assign guns and/or horses to colonists that are in the garrison section of a colony? I got a couple colonies that are producing guns and horses (or importing them), but assigning them to colonists when the time comes seems more difficult that it has to be.

Right now I first move the colonist from the garrison section into the colony proper (either the 8 square radius or a building) and then back to the garrison section. After moving the colonist back, a pop-up window will appear allowing me to assign the colonist to a soldier, dragoon, etc.

I was hopeful that double-clicking on the garrison colonist would allow me to make the assignment, or moving guns/horses to the colonist would do it, but it doesn't seem to work.

Any thoughts would be most appreciated...even if it's RTFM. Thanks. :cool:

Easiest way is to leave the City-View and enter the map. Select the unit in the city you want to equip. Select the "Change Profession" (?) - Button or Alt-P (or CTRL-P???) to assign the new job inside or outside the city. There is also a hint to this topic in the huge list of Game-Tipps which can be found on Load-Screen and in Civilopedia.

I was asking the same question. :)

Although historix69's solution works, both procedures still involve several clicks.
Mildly irritating.

yes an aded feature of beeing able to double click and assign them in city screen would be welcome and save a few clicks.