uhhh, no.
Love how you expounded upon it, and corrected my 'misinformation' Kesh. Plus the downvote was icing. Thank you.
Seriously, it's an observation I made while gearing up my army. The more gear I had vs troops, the less 'armed' I appeared. When I dropped off gear I wouldn't be using, ie lighter stuff, I went from armed to heavily armed, and heavily armed to shiny on both occasions. Troop count didn't change upon drop off, but dumping the lighter gear certainly did.