This is a serious problem with reanimated anyone, they never use the weapon they had equipped. This happens even if i dont touch their corpse for looting. They either start using their fists or take out a dagger if they had one.

This literally makes the necromancy spells pointless unless you are reanimating a mage/animal, even then the mage wont use their staff that they used to make your life miserable just a few moments ago.

SOMETIMES they do go look for a weapon, I think this problem can easily be fixed if the reanimations simply look for a weapon in closeby area soon after being reanimated instead of only when the combat starts.

Im sorry if this issue has been raised earlier but i think this is something very serious and worth mentioning repeatedly.