Benefit of hindsight gives us that. For all they knew they were facing the imminent destruction of their civilisation.

True. Not many of their vassals switched sides

40% did.

The real deep shit is why 60% didn't.

Did they? I thought that only few of them joined Hannibal and he just plundered the rest when he could and remained neutral-ish when he couldn't

But yea, Rome was on the brink of destruction. Apparently after one massive defeat, they even resorted to human sacrifices.

*After the death or imprisonment of 130,000 Roman troops in two years, 40% of Rome's Italian allies defected to Carthage, giving it control over most of southern Italy.*

wew

Three massive defeats actually. But Cannae was the worst.

Trebia, Trasimene, and then Cannae.

And yes.

Eventually they resorted to human sacrifice

Which they really didn't usually or even unusually do

This was end of the world as we know it type shit

Impressive shit

Man I love ancient Rome

um, battle of cannae was a shitshow

For the Romans, yeah

no i mean, in general... and not even just the battle itself... after the battle was most of a shitshow

I'm impressed by the fact Rome won the war, let alone survived

Idk what you mean, it was a pretty well ordered affair on the Carthaginian side

jk

like.. you know they took where between 1,000 and 20,000 prisoners right?

did you ever hear about what happened to those prisoners?

Probably killed.

Hannibal had no active supply line.

used to clean up the battlefield to drag bodies to fire cistern... once all the bodies burned... they where thrown onto the cistern aswell

He only received one shipment I think

@ryvergate nice

@ryvergate That's too wholesome for this server

If you meant shitshow by brutality, then yeah

Cannae is considered a near-flawless representation of a battle of annihilation

Most battles in history did not end with one side wiped out

yes, tho it when opposite what hannible wanted... and ended up gaining the same objectives

Wdym? Hannibal wanted to win.

His entire battle plan was geared towards the outcome.

he didnt want to annihilate them, cuz he feared it would alienate the romans and roman allies from joining his side... but then he did annihlate them... and it did alienate them... so much that they wanted to switch side