need some guidance

[Jona Lendering]

We always encourage our members to make gear, if they don't want to buy

That's more honorable than plundering or outright theft. I agree. :wink: :roll:

Although that would probably be more historically correct. :wink:

Was there a big difference in equipment between the legionair during Julius Caesar and the legionair during augustus? I know, this might be a total noob question, but....

If I have understood it correctly, the development was gradual. Compare it to our own armies: I remember that some US soldiers in Iraq already had the most recent type of body protector vest, while others had to do with an older version. It was logistically impossible to produce 100,000 vests immediately, so some people had to wait. The same must have happened in Antiquity: not everyone, not every unit, could immediately obtain the latest stuff. I know of a helmet that has had four owners and must have been used for more than half a century.