Quote Originally Posted by seienchin View Post
It is obvious, that the carthagenians werent using 100percent in the war as the romans did. They never desperatly spawned armies until the battle of zama. But of course they tried to help hannibal.
I would say rome was fighting an total war and Carthago just a normal one.
Yeah, at first, save for some abortive and utterly failed attempts, the war was more on Roman homeland than on Carthaginian. Specifically the Second, which was in the time of Hannibal. Nothing like the personal touch I suppose. Karthadastim Senate was from a rather complacent position, faced with an unprofitable, treasury-draining war, so as merchants at heart, most of them turned against Hannibal. Either that or simple political opposition. By the time Scipio Africanus was in Africa, it was too late. By the time Scipio Aemilianus and the brief, pathetic Third Punic "war", it was the end.