Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Publius Cornelius Scipio "Africanus": A General Greater Than Napoleon" video.

Hannibal refused to put his name among the three greatest, but said that who would have managed to beat him, would have been the greatest one.
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It has to be said that the invasion of Africa manuver had been already tried during the first punic war, and ended in disaster, that's why the Senate was against it. Not only but, for the Romans, Scipio's character had much in common with that of Attilius Regulus, who led that expedition.
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"The shield of Rome" His strategy prevented the fall of the city and, for this, his contribution had been invaluable, but was not enough to win. Not only Scipio's expedition, but even the Battle of Metaurus, the real decisive battle of the Second Punic War, in the end, was won by ignoring the ordes of the Senate.
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It has to be said that, after 19 years of war, those men were better trained than professionals. Not by chance, after the end of the Punic war, they steamrolled over Greece and middle east with ridicolous ease.
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It took Hannibal 6 months of siege to take the small city of Saguntum in the best conditions possible for him (near to his bases and with almost unlimited supply of men and materials). Rome was simply too big to chew. With the Carthaginian forces placed around the city, any section of them woud have been vulnerable and unable to help each other.
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Ilipa had ben Scipio's masterpiece. It's often said he copied Hannibal, but that was not what happened. He took advantage of the fact that Hasdrubal and Mago KNEW Hannibal's "trick" to hypnotise them, making so that they didin't do anything, waiting for the Roman center to approach, terrorised to push forward, while their army was cut to pieces. Scipio played mentally with his enemies at a different level than Hannibal. In this regard had to be seen the episode when he allowed Hannibal's spies to visit his camp and take note of everything they wanted. It was AFTER the annihilation of the Numidian and Chartaginian armies at Utica and it meant "what I've done, you'll not be able to redo, even if i help you".
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Scipio had never been defeated, nor had never been close to be defeated. Hannibal took 6 months to conquer the small city of Saguntum in the best conditions possible for him. Scipio conquered Nova Carthago in 2 days while being far from his supplies. What Hannibal had been unable to do in 19 years of campaign in Italy, Scipio did in two years of campaign in Africa with a second-rate army. Ilipa had ben Scipio's masterpiece. It's often said he copied Hannibal, but that was not what happened. He took advantage of the fact that Hasdrubal and Mago KNEW Hannibal's "trick" to hypnotise them, making so that they didn't do anything, waiting for the Roman center to approach, terrorised to push forward, while their army was cut to pieces. Scipio played mentally with his enemies at a different level than Hannibal. In this regard had to be seen the episode when he allowed Hannibal's spies to visit his camp and take note of everything they wanted. It was AFTER the annihilation of the Numidian and Chartaginian armies at Utica and it meant "what I've done, you'll not be able to redo, even if i help you".
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Ilipa had ben Scipio's masterpiece. It's often said he copied Hannibal, but that was not what happened. He took advantage of the fact that Hasdrubal and Mago KNEW Hannibal's "trick" to hypnotise them, making so that they didin't do anything, waiting for the Roman center to approach, terrorised to push forward, while their army was cut to pieces. Scipio played mentally with his enemies at a different level than Hannibal. In this regard had to be seen the episode when he allowed Hannibal's spies to visit his camp and take note of everything they wanted. It was AFTER the annihilation of the Numidian and Chartaginian armies at Utica and it meant "what I've done, you'll not be able to redo, even if i help you".
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And so?
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