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”.
Well worth a watch. Romans were so stupid for so long cause they were so cocky from the first war hehe.
They did eventually learn to play it tactfully though ( attack and run when hanabal came to protect the town )
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”.
Obligatory oversimplified video explaining it all : https://youtu.be/Q-nWA0WeF98
Well worth a watch. Romans were so stupid for so long cause they were so cocky from the first war hehe.
They did eventually learn to play it tactfully though ( attack and run when hanabal came to protect the town )
Modern day Tunisia
Then they used the genius strategy of “get the fuck out of there”
If you need a good insult, just drop “cunctator” in there with the rest.