The Battle of Cannae

If you want to view the battle in better quality: http://files.filefront.com/Cannaewmv/;6892500;/fileinfo.html

Hannibal Barca makes a heroic struggle to win, and he did....
This battle was a mess, the routing romans were slaughtered and some of them had nowhere to go so they were annhiliated

I strongly recommend people to download XGM since its such a excellent mod and to increase realism to get better hellenic factions such as Greek City States, Macedon, Egypt(Ptolemoi), People of Pontus, Thrace and the Selucids. I have downloaded a latin voice pack as you may hear, so the romans speak latin not american =/

The result were "Heroic"

Enjoy^^

Maybe i should have more classical music in it.... maybe not punk...... or what?

Note people, I did not make this video(almost forgot to say this) But I won it.
WTF? I meant its not I who made the battle if you understand, but I who played it:D

Credit to the author I must say....But I don't remember who

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[Kippenbestaan]

Yes what he did was easy, BUT! Could you have thought of it? Think like you are in the situation. Outnumbered 20.000 vs 50.000. The Carthaginians are commanded by a general that beat you some times before. And then think of your tactic. I guess you wouldn't think that clear when you are in his situation.

[Kippenbestaan]

I'm not saying I dont like Hannibal. He is a hero and northen afrika was almost part of Europe. If I cared about if he was european or not I would have been more about the germanic tribes because Im dutch. Dont say things you cant know about. Im not changing history Scipio beat Hannibal and THATS THE WAY IT IS! Now you insult me and I dont like that. I study ancient history so dont say you know it better because YOU DONT!

[TheSmacktasticSMACKO]

@TheSmacktasticSMACKO if he were to have soliders equal to the romans then he probably would have taken roma and mabey even won the 2nd punic war for Carthage

[TheSmacktasticSMACKO]

I dont think he ever intended on taking Roma itself but rather to kill as many romans as possible. After Canne he didnt realy have enough man power to do so anyway. and he was definantly in my opinion in the top 5 generals ever to walk the earth, but i alsow think the his ability to command was really held back by the Carthaginian armies being infirior to the romans. i mean he was really the only gerneral in Carthage's history to put up a good fight

[Nelafix]

@SFbatteriste True, but still Scipio Africanus is among the four commanders who NEVER lost a battle (the other three are Alexander the Great, Khalid ibn al-Walid and Jan Žižka). On the other hand, Scipio was learning from the master.

[nalgaface123456789]

This is xgm right?

Ive noticed that my spartans have low quality resolutions, even if i put everything on max they are low quality (like when their arms and legs are pointed needles)

how do i fix this?

please help any help would be appreciated :)

[Kippenbestaan]

@SFbatteriste true, but I was only pointing out the fact that the guy was a good tacticion. Yes Hannibal was better but I think Roman generals are being under appreciated, after all they conquered most of the known world at that time.

Excuse me for my English but I'm not from an English speaking country.

[SFbatteriste]

@Kippenbestaan Hannibal ranks as one of the greatest military leaders in history along Alexander the Great, Julius Caeser, Genghis Khan and Napolean. Hannibal was one of the first to use strategy and tactics in war, and Cannae is considered a tactical masterpiece still studied in military schools. Scipio would be considered a great commander but never in the same class as Hannibal, and I've never heard anyone consider Marcus Aurelius a great military mind, (he was very much a philosopher).

[SFbatteriste]

@Suppressingfire Hannibal just did'nt have the resources the Romans had. Hannibal's armies were mainly mercenaries, Numidians, Spanish, Celts.. He was defeated at Zama because the Numidians cavalry changed sides. The Roman armies were mainly Roman and Italian with subject state and allied auxilaries. They also had an enormous manpower reserve; even after Cannae they were able to raise armies of large armies; estimates are they had 1 mil in potential manpower reserve.

[maaderllin]

@methestofilis Surrounding the enemy made many armies win a war. Hannibal, in the battle of Cannae really used this strategy and it worked perfectly.

[RassBrass]

Hannibal ante portas, "Hannibal is at the Gates", an expression which was used by Roman mothers as a threat against misbehaving children.

[failtolawl]

then he got owned later.... and carthaginian empire was wiped off the map... so sad..... :s