Battle of Zama

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By the description of the battle, Hannibal doesn't seems like Hannibal in battle of cannae and other famous victory he gained over the Romans. I mean, I don't see any special tactics used.

Either Hannibal had lost his touch or the sources are just not very clear about his intentions. Afterall we only have Roman sources: Polybius had Masinissa as his main source and he commanded the cavalry and spent most of the time in pursuit so how much did he really see to have a clear idea of what Hannibal did.

Steven James has written a good hypothesis which can be found here http://www.fenrir.dk/history/index.p...ttle_Revisited

His conclusion is that Hannibal was still his good old self and had planned for a double envelopment but Scipio's generalship, the quality of the Roman veterans and a bit of bad luck ruined the plan.


CBR