[raynor]

I started this topic was because I thought it was interesting that 'empty' troops seemed to provide the same happiness benefit as fully loaded troops. (Once again, I gained that impression from reading Mephisto's comments.)

In fact, I would be willing to bet that you are better off building ten small troops rather than the same cost in fully decked out large troops. I'm betting the game assigns a certain happiness improvement on a per troop basis.