"Salernum – 215 BC" Topic
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Tango01  | 04 Feb 2025 3:41 p.m. PST |
"The following is a Big Battle DBA game in a short series set in the Second Punic Wars. In our last battle Hannibal had suffered a dramatic defeat in the north. Now in the south he seeks allies in his struggle against Rome. Unable to gain victory in the north during 217 BC Hannibal spent much of the 216 BC moving south. By early 215 BC he was in Campania and then pressed further south to Bruttium. From here he was closer to Carthage and could more easily be reinforced. In the ensuing months a number of cities allied themselves to Carthage while others resisted. To subdue these cities, and establish his base, Hannibal divided his army in an effort to hasten several to the Punic alliance. In one such moment Rome struck south in to Campania where an army under the Consul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus engaged a Punic army under Hanno, son of Bomilcar…"
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