Thanks for the reply ! Sorry for the slow follow up , I have been busy . And for the record , I was talking about Scipio Africanus , thanks for reading into that for me How come there weren ' t many technological advances in terms of armor or weaponry besides siege weaponry ? I know this isn ' t necessarily the best question to ask in a historical setting . but was there no real attempts to improve on the equipment in that period of time ? Did they feel that they had it adequate enough ? Was technological advancement just not moving at any significant pace ? In addition , how come the legion seemed to abandon different equipment as time progressed ? Without trying to answer it for you , my mind goes to either something like they realized that equipment wasn ' t as useful as they initially thought or it was cost cutting measures as time went on . Can you speak to that any ? Or maybe some other third reason for it ?