From: Charles Davis Subject: Re: Hannibal play balance Why isnt Hannibal reacting harder to the Roman when he tries to attack him? a Roman defeat can leave Rome open to a seige. In Italy Hannibal needs to gain a few allied provinces, and keep the romans pinned holding Rome. I have played 4 times for 1 carthaginian and 3 roman wins, but 1 roman win was on the last turn after a disastrous turn 9 for the carthaginians as Hannibal(me) made an over aggressive move to try and catch SCipio A. outside of ROme, scipio succesfully evaded and Hannibal was out of position to cover souther italy from scipio who proceeded to march down and catch hasdrubal and cut of his head. A series of major battles ended with Hannibal hiding with 2 CU in Tarentum while scipio waited outside for a chance to seige him to death on turn 10. turn 10 say Mago attempt to bring 10 CU from spain to Italy to save H. and he got sunk. while the Roman had the traitor in Tarentum card to play on his first card play, game over H. caught. chuck At 05:43 PM 6/13/96 GMT, you wrote: >Hi > >Anyone been playing Hannibal out there ? > >I have played it 6 times, for 5 Roman wins. >I find that if the Roman player is persistant, he >can eventually wear down Hannibal's army and >displace him for a win. > >I am keen to play a bit more, but I feel Carthage >needs every reinforcement it can muster to >hang on. > >Any thoughts....? > >Doug > From: Steve Owen Subject: Re: Hannibal play balance I have now played Hanibal 16x - 14 of these as Carthage. I have won 5 out of 14 as Carthage and both games as Rome There's seems little doubt that Rome has a definite advantage: 1. The reinforcement rate is more secure (5 per turn + all those ally cards) 2. Rome can afford to lose more battles (despite the political consequences and loss of PC markers) 3. Carthage must be much more careful and consistently lucky to have a chance of winning 4. Hannibal is not the irresistable force he was historically (undefeated in Italy). One previous suggestion was that Hannibal's effectiveness was reduced for purposes of play balance - well, Carthage certainly needs him with all his attributes as the game stands at present. I would welcome views to the contrary but currently believe that the balance needs adjusting From: "D.Adams@BoM.GOV.AU" Subject: Re: Hannibal play balance > There's seems little doubt that Rome has a definite advantage: > > 1. The reinforcement rate is more secure (5 per turn + all those ally cards) > > 2. Rome can afford to lose more battles (despite the political consequences > and loss of PC markers) > > 3. Carthage must be much more careful and consistently lucky to have a chance > of winning Three very good points, ones I fully agree with. I am currently in my 7th game, playing Carthage, and am doing very well on turn 5. I am using Hannibal to smash any tempting Roman armies - normally this is enough for Hannibal to lose in the long run due to attrition from battles - but I am virtually using every '3' card to 'Raise Troops' in Gallia Cisalpania. This is keeping H's army topped up. It *seems* to be working so far, but I have been in this position as Carthage before, and lost. Great game though. I wonder if AH will release expansion cards, like it did for We The People. Doug