They receive their "gladiatrix" armour from the Arena. The weapon comes from their own equipment when assigned or from unused (unequipped by anyone else) weapons in your stash.
For what need a Guard an Weapon or an Armour?After you assign them you can forgot about them as for the rest of the game they do absolute nothing.At least in my Game there is nothing that have to do with guards.
Generally i miss in this game a lot. 1 Time you assign someone to a Work or something other you can full forget about them as nothing happen anymore. No Events no Message if happen something to them and so on. Im not sure but i have the feeling that my Game is not working right. I can Fight around the Map i can Build things to make Money so i can buy things to Fight better i can talk to Npcs but near all interaction are near identical.I can do Quest that are relative easy and the rewards are to be true not very interesting.Thats was it.
Where are all the Events i mean if you have a Great House something must happen around and not only xy get or loose 1 point in affection click next Day.
I read in the Forum about Bastard Children from other Man in my Household but in my game no one apart me is Touching the Girls and the Floor Crawlers get never Pregnant from them if they use them even Lube is off.
I read about Events that happen but the only Event in my game is as i write +-1 Point in something at the start of a new Day in my Report.
I read Floor Crawlers have new stuff in the changelog but in my game after i assign them nothing happen im not even know if someone Fuck them apart from the Window where you can see there Body things when you see that they have something sore so you can only imagine what they have done.
I can walk/change in my House Rooms or make Partys Pool or Normal but not real something happen i get a Picture at the Partys that is near always the same and a little bit of text all find its nice +- Happiness/Affection.No Orgies no Drunk things or take a Girl to your Bed or you find someone Fucking/Molesting one of the Girls let it happen or do something against it absolute nothing.What Kind of Partys are that with Alcohol and Drugs where after all behave same as Children
I can invest in other house/Shops/Church and so on but even there nothing come after apart i get a little bit more Money that at some Point i real dont need anymore as i have so much from it that i can buy the entire World