Ok... here it goes.
The Carthaginian units, know as the elite africans used roman armour and shields... That's how much i know.
So the first units obviusly took the arms of dead romans.
But what happend after that? Did the Carthaginians start to make a lot of armours and shields at their own smiths? to make them like the roman ones?
And were they really so superior? I mean, the largest trading city in the world must have heard about the romans shields and weapons... why didn't they starting using them at once once they've seen how well they do?
They accepted the best of the succesor armys easilly enough, why did it take them to loose the greatest war of ancient times to figure it out?

I hope the post makes sense, since it's late and i dunno how my english sounds at this hour

Any insight would be very appreciated