Peak Roman military doctrine at its finest
by ghosty0310
Peak Roman military doctrine at its finest
by ghosty0310
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If I had a nickel every time this happened, I would have quite a lot of nickels.
This happened to Fabian and to Pompey and to many others, might have happened quite a few times during the high republic era too.
Fabius: So we can’t win a direct engagement, but we can cut Hannibal off from his supply lines and steadily wear him down through limited attacks on his foraging groups.
Senate: We have a better idea. *Loses 80,000 men in one battle*
headcanon is that Fabius did in fact have the biggest “I told you so” moment in the Roman senate
Roman senate: Jupiter and Mars didn’t favor us today. Tomorrow we’ll do it again and it will totally work!
Rome: **losses 1/3 of the male population in a war**
Carthage: you lost more than 200.000 men will you surrender?
Rome: lol nope!
Carthage: you lost nearly 90.000 men at Cannae will you surrender?
Rome: lol nope!
Carthage: you besiege us will you let us surrender pretty please?
Rome: lol nope!
Punic Wars in a nutshell.
I mean sometimes there is embellishment.
Say if a tactic didnt work.
“I told you guys it won’t work, we should’ve don’t this instead”
“Yes, we would’ve won if we did that instead”
With caarhae it’s more of a panic response by rome. They just threw everyone at Hannibal and hoped it would work.
That iswny you have auxiliary, Ceasar have Gaul Cavalry, & Scipio have Numedian.
Odysseus in Greek myth: Sneaky mf (laudatory)
Ulysses in Roman myth: Sneaky mf (derogatory)