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Cover art: "Hannibal's army crossing the Rhône" by Henri-Paul Motte, 1878. The Punic Wars: Rome vs Carthage, 264-146 B.C., is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1975 that simulates the three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage from 264–146 BCE.
Hannibal is a two-person wargame in which one player controls the forces of Carthage and the other player controls Roman forces. As game developer Steven Newberg wrote, "the two concepts that struck me as making the game unique were the leadership rotation system used to reflect the Roman political situation, and the movement system, which had to be stretched to allow historical actions for ...
Mark Simonitch (born December 30, 1957 [1]) is an American wargame designer and graphic artist. His game designs include Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage and Ardennes '44, and he has made maps for Wilderness War and Empire of the Sun among others.
There were three main military theatres in the war: Italy, where Hannibal defeated the Roman legions repeatedly, with occasional subsidiary campaigns in Sicily, Sardinia and Greece; Iberia, where Hasdrubal, a younger brother of Hannibal, defended the Carthaginian colonial cities with mixed success until moving into Italy; and Africa, where the ...
Hannibal is a two-player board wargame where one player controls the forces of Carthage, and the other play controls the Roman forces. With only 84 counters, the game is considered relatively easy to play. The game starts in 318 BC. With each turn representing one year, the game lasts for a maximum of seventeen turns. [2]
The game covers the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage. The original version of the game used hard mounted game boards, which increased the selling price of the game. An updated version of Hannibal at Bay was announced on May 13, 2008 [1] and was scheduled to be released in June 2008. This game will use cardstock game boards (like those in ...
Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage: Avalon Hill: 1996: Re-released by Valley Games in 2007: Hannibal: The Italian Campaign 219-206 BC ... The Sword of Rome: GMT Games: 2004 ...
The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.