Jesus fucking Christ Hannibal. And I thought Napoleon was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdM76p7Dpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-bXtg14T90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroGPObEZzk
>>1031813
Austerlitz and Marengo were just as good as anything Hannibal did.
He had an uncanny ability to win many battles but lose the war.
>>1031813
Part of it had to do with facing numbskull generals before Scipio came on the scene.
>>1031813
Goood vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68
So what should have the Gauls done? A number of feigned attacks to keep the Romans in constant readiness followed by a strong night attack when the Romans were getting tired of readiness?
>>1034724
Should have immediately surrendered.
>>1034724
>Vercingetorix
Was getting surrounded part of his plan?
>>1034764
Well, congratulations! You got yourself caught! Now what's the next step in your master plan?
>>1031813
uhhhhh, tendies?
>>1034724
that, or vercingetorix's cousin should have redirected some troops from the breach after the romans managed to plug it and instead harass them elsewhere
that way the roman cavalry couldn't have broken through and caused the gaul army to panic, so eventually caesar's forces would just wear out and lose by being spread too thin
ganging up on the breach meant that the gauls were forfeiting their advantage in numbers and what's more, committing to a course of attack when they really didn't need to. if they didn't commit, caesar would have had a much harder time retaliating because the gauls could just change their approach whenever they wanted
>>1031813
He knew how to win, but he didn't know how to use a victory
>>1035034
This.
He won some battles but in the end that amounted to nothing.
>>1031813
OVER THE ALPS PERHAPS
>>1031813
nice videos.
were archers irrelevant?
>>1035295
To the Romans yes, probably not so much in the late empire.
To the Carthaginians I don't know. I guess they weren't since in the vids Hannibal didn't used them.
>>1035386
The Carthaginian government had a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot.
>this general lost a battle
>crucify the fucker
>>1035401
Exactly. Hannibal was doing everything right and if the Carthaginian elders weren't such cowards and short-sighted fools, he would've had the reinforcements, material aid, and manpower to fully siege and subdue Rome.
>>1035240
>>1035240
yeah but you can hardly blame him, his senate refused to sent him troops, his compatriots were useless and his family members who weren't unfortunately died
>>1035325
yeah probably, Romans rarely used the, IIRC at that area, Hannibal might have had a few mercenaries who knows, probably unlikely
>>1034768
DESTROYING THIS REPUBLIC
WITH NO SURVIVORS
>>1035409
Their pettiness never ceases to amaze me
