Explanation: In the Second Punic War, the brilliant Carthaginian ("Punic") general Hannibal Barca repeatedly lured massive Roman armies into traps, and utterly destroyed them, one after another.

... it took a concerningly long time for the Romans to stumble across the strategy of "Stop feeding Roman soldiers to Hannibal's forces".

Somehow, my autism made me want to scroll by all of these memes and get a hyperfixation on the Roman Empire.

Explanation: In the Second Punic War, the brilliant Carthaginian ("Punic") general Hannibal Barca repeatedly lured massive Roman armies into traps, and utterly destroyed them, one after another.

... it took a concerningly long time for the Romans to stumble across the strategy of "Stop feeding Roman soldiers to Hannibal's forces".

Personally i’d want the favor of Neptune and Mars if i were fighting a naval battle.

The divine chicken ate from my hand today, our victory is absolutely certain.

iirc dan carlin suggested something along the lines: what made rome a superpower was their ability to take a punch, and then get up again to win the fight.

(so basically what you said, but with boxing-framing instead of futuarama-framing)

And then when that didn’t work they burned all their crops and ran away, which actually did work.

To be fair Scipio did have superior strategy and leadership if only in being smart enough to get Masinissa on his side.

OG Imperial Republican Guard

"ERM actually their strategy was perfect they-"

Cites a YouTube video that cites a historian who made it the fuck up