I believe the suspicion is,
If you put equipment in a fief it'll register 'Oh, this fief has gear' and spawn no free peasant shit. But as described, this normally means you have whatever broken shit the attacker gave you before the battle.
*BUT*
There's a known issue with the peasant gear whereby if you put trade goods in the fief instead of gear, it'll still register 'Oh, this fief has gear' and spawn no free peasant shit. Fief is too dumb to know what's gear and what isnt, it thinks goods are gear so gives no freebies. Ofc this then means defenders have literally nothing.
To test that this is all still the case I plan to attack Nova Aab:
1. When it's got *nothing* inside, no gear and no goods, test if free peasant gear still exists.
2. When it has goods inside but no gear, test if free peasant gear spawns or not.
3. Someone suggested I raid and see if i get the trade goods i put in it. No idea why but sounds fun.
If peasant gear no longer exists that's one thing, it doesnt necessarily prove that the attacker is innocent of trying to bomb in this way if this is a new unknown change, but it does mean it no longer matters either way.
#3(BOLDED) Why?
If at any point in time someone transferred trade goods to fief and owner never transferred goods away, then, as was stated, Bauer raided. If the Raid
did not take out the trade goods that were in there with the original equipment, then that means that on the second attack, the goods
would still be in fief.
Therefore, assuming that if you have goods in fief, then after the raid, not only did you lose all gear, but you would have nothing on second attack because of the fact that goods didn't get removed like normal gear.