Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Рим: Пунические Войны - Вторая Пуническая Война продолжается - Extra History - #3" video.

  1. They were deeply involved in Spain, that was the place from where the money to pay that war came (mind that the Cartaginean army was a mercenary one, so much more expensive than the Roman one). Much of the Second Punic war had been fought outside Italy. Mind too that, at that time, the Roman fleet was stronger than the Carthaginian one, so, the only way to bring reinforcements to Hannibal was to escape the Roman legions guarding the Pyrenees and cross the Alps with another army. Finally Hasdrubal managed to do it late in the war, after Spain had been lost for him, only to be slaughtered later.
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  2. It's said that, after Cannae, the Cartaginean embassy sent in Rome saw long rows of people at the recruitment's tables wanting to enlist the Legion. Problem is that, since Hannibal slaughtered army after army without giving the legionaries time to gain experience, they were always newbies, while Hannibal's soldiers were battle-hardened. It's a problem Rome had until the Marian Reform of the Army, and that's why they often lost the first battles of a war in repubblican time.
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