I am not totally sure if this has been suggested yet, but when you are equipping your units/heroes would it be possible to show not just a weapon change but also a armor one.

I would say that this is a big ask for the Alpha, but at the same time I totally agree. With a game as saturated with numbers such as this, visual clues would be very helpful and/or completely fricking awesome

I think this is something that should be in the finished product, if not a little before then when all the features have been more or less worked out. I'd like to see my units look much more menacing with high level equipment, and I was a little disappointed when no visual change occured on equipping different pieces of armor.