I think that part of the answer, is that like most fascists, Caesar and his Legion are lying about how committed they are to parts of their ideology. In particular about being anti-technology. Caesar has an auto-doc. The more senior in the legion, the better the guns and armour you have. The minute the Legion has a chance to capture artillery they take it.
So they lie to their new recruits that the legion is tough and doesn't need fancy guns just spears and machetes. In part because they don't have enough guns for all their new recruits, but also they've just kidnapped and brutalized most of their new recruits, giving them guns when they could rebel is not what they want.
Similarly for their tactics. They send the recruits in human waves to probe the NCR and use them to Skirmish. But when they're really trying to kill you, if you're infamous, they send dudes with real guns, armour and modern tactics.
Kinda like ISIS. They were like "western technology is forbidden but uhhh it's okay for us to use it for the purposes of our holy war and then we'll totally get rid of it. Pinky promise."
The Nazis did this thing in the 30s even before the war where they encouraged a low meat, low alcohol ascetic diet and lifestyle. Which was medically good advice but materially due to certain significant food shortages.
I think that part of the answer, is that like most fascists, Caesar and his Legion are lying about how committed they are to parts of their ideology. In particular about being anti-technology. Caesar has an auto-doc. The more senior in the legion, the better the guns and armour you have. The minute the Legion has a chance to capture artillery they take it.
So they lie to their new recruits that the legion is tough and doesn't need fancy guns just spears and machetes. In part because they don't have enough guns for all their new recruits, but also they've just kidnapped and brutalized most of their new recruits, giving them guns when they could rebel is not what they want.
Similarly for their tactics. They send the recruits in human waves to probe the NCR and use them to Skirmish. But when they're really trying to kill you, if you're infamous, they send dudes with real guns, armour and modern tactics.
Kinda like ISIS. They were like "western technology is forbidden but uhhh it's okay for us to use it for the purposes of our holy war and then we'll totally get rid of it. Pinky promise."
Nazi Germany did the same thing claiming their soldiers were all 6’0” aryan gods, when like the average height was like 5’7” and malnourished
The Nazis did this thing in the 30s even before the war where they encouraged a low meat, low alcohol ascetic diet and lifestyle. Which was medically good advice but materially due to certain significant food shortages.