So... no nicer weapons and armour for my Legions... I guess the AS and Charties must have bribed Eleutheroi then, or had each other's cities rebel to the other.

It puzzles me that rebel slaves and minor kingdoms represented by the Eleutheroi has the technology available to upgrade weapons though, while great empires of learned cultures (like the Hellenes, carthies and Rome) with advanced tech does not... is that an oversight or on purpose, and if on purpose; with what justification?