After reading hte post on how wepons and armour get out dated too quickly, have you considerd having weapons and armour removed from the tech tree alltogther, and added as general advancmnt? king of like the 'we have now spoted level 5 monsters" After numours upgrades of monsters their woudl be a global event "war technology has progressed to allow Double handed wepons"
After all when it comees to milatry tech, everyone copys them ASAP anyway.
