Quote Originally Posted by Juba2
an oh yeah btw if any one can enlighten us about king Juba 2 applying of Roman tactics and fashion for his army ill be more than glad

PS : my english sux i know

peace..
Imitation legionaries are mostly a myth. The concept itself comes from the fact that Roman historians (whose works are the best preserved until this day) named any close order infantry with some type of heavy body armor who threw javelins before charging as "imitation legionaries".

The tactic is far older than the Roman legions. The Carthies, Armenians and Illyrians are just a few of the peoples that developed similar tactics independently with very little or no contact with Rome or warfare in Italy.

So whenever the Romans encountered a foreign soldier wearing chainmail, scale or linothorax, that fought with a large shield, spear or sword. Did this in some type of formation and threw javelins before charging, the Roman arrogance being what it was immediatly lableled them as "imitation legionaries". As if no one else on Earth was clever enough to come up with the concept.

I don't know about the Numidian heavies. But it's just as likely they evolved on their own with little or no influence derived from Roman type of warfare.
The Carthies had a unit of Elite African Swordsmen that operated in a very similar fashion to Roman legionaries. And they evolved on their own.
The Numidian heavies are just as likely to have evolved from it as Carthage is a lot closer to Numidia than it is to Rome.

In EB there is unit of noble Swordsmen in service of the desert Kingdom of Saba. They too are armored in chain. Use large shields and swords. Plus use javelins before charging. I bet a Roman historian has them too labeled somewhere as "imitation legionaries" although their contact with Rome is very limited to the later periods in antiquity, when Rome had grown into an Empire. And those troops had been in existence for a lot longer than that.