Flash animations of the battles of Zama and Pidna

[Connacht]

I found these interesting flash animations that simulate the events of two famous battles, the ones of Zama and Pidna.

Battle of Pidna, 168 BC, between the Romans led by Lucius Emilius Paulus Macedonicus and the Macedonians led by king Perseos:

http://www.phpnukemaximus.it/maxit/modules.php?name=Animation&op=Pidna

Battle of Zama, 201 BC, between the Carthaginians led by general Hannibal Barca and the Romans led by consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, aided by Massinissa king of Numidia:

http://www.phpnukemaximus.it/maxit/modules.php?name=Animation&op=Zama

The only problem is that text is in Italian, so playing the button "play" (the single triangle) will make you read pages of descriptions that probably you won't understand, unless you are Itailians or know Italian.
The only thing to do thus is to simply press the "next page" button (double triangles) and see coloured pixels moving up and down around the screen, skipping texts.

Names, even if in Italian, are clearly understandable, however.
I mean, you don't need to have learnt Italian to recognize that words like "Astati", "Cartaginesi", "Celti" or "Ipaspisti" mean "Hastati", "Carthaginians", "Celts" and "Hypaspistai".

[machinor]

Cool. Nice find! :2thumbsup:
Very dramatic with all that epic music. :beam:

[Cyrus]

Davvero molto bello. E le ricostruzioni mi sembrano anke molto buone.
Great job whoever the creator is!

[BurningEGO]

Oh god. I wonder where i heard that music? :p

[A Very Super Market]

Sounds like Pirates of the Caribbean. Weird.

Anyways, good find!

[Cyrus]

i'm 90% shure it's from The Gladiator

[BurningEGO]

i'm 90% shure it's from The Gladiator

I was thinking the same.

[tsidneku]

Me thinks the music is either from Gladiator, Band of Brothers, or Pearl Harbour.

[BurningEGO]

The music of the battle of Zama is definetely from Gladiator. You even get to hear Maximus saying "Roma Invicta!" (or Roma Victor, never quite understood it). As for the other battle i dunno since i cant open the link.

Just a question though (about the battle of zama): the darkest blue bar, the one representing Hannibal's elite mercenaries - isnt it too big in comparison to the one representing Carthage's regular troops (the one in the middle)? Wasnt most of Hannibal's army made up of these regulars?

[-Praetor-]

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[Husker98]

it's like watching tetris lol

[V.T. Marvin]

Very nicely done! BTW, some of the sound effects are from Caesar III (namely those from Zama) :yes:

[Vulg]

That was like watching Tetris, no Arkanoid, actually missile defence but alas I did pick it up, wasn't fussed on the Italian football cheering.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

it's like watching tetris lol

But tetris is actually much more fun than this.