Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Battle of Ecnomus (256 BC) - Largest Naval Battle in History" video.

One thing to mind of the early republican classes system is that between the velites, astati/princeps and triarii, there were often two or even three generations of the same family on the battlefield. The last duty of the triarii when the battle was irremedialby lost was to be slaughtered while slowing down the enemies' pursue, to allow the younger soldiers to escape, . And they did it, because that way they were saving their own sons.
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@Razenity Nope.
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@dl6704 Nope aswell.
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@Mizzurani No.
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As soon as the artillery was invented, the say became, when in a battle you didn't know where to go any more, to "march to the sound of the guns". Desaix won the day for Napoleon at Marengo by doing so. Grouchy lost it at Waterloo by not doing so.
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Siege warfare and open field warfare were two completely different things. In the best logistic conditions possible, near to his base, having a clear numerical advantage and with plenty of allies, it took Hannibal six months to conquer the small city of Saguntum. Rome was way bigger. The Romans had more soldiers in the city than those Hannibal had to siege it (and more were in Spain, south Italy and Sicily) and, once he had deployed his army them around the city to siege it, Hannibal would have lost the possibility to manuver, or to quickly group in case a sector was attacked. The Romans instead would have had the choice of what sector to raid, always having the numerical superiority and the surprise.
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