Realism Mod. Carthage playing aggressively took Capua in 265bc .

Landed an army near Rome of 2 vanilla elephants , numerous Iberian inf, few scutarii, skirmishers and spearmen and some merc slingers plus 2 long shield cav. 1500 in all. good general .

Attacked by the Senate--about same size army but principes/hastati mainly supported by auxilla and velites.

A wooded snowy level place.

I think hmmm. might be a tough battle .... those senate guys have all high experience rating etc.

Line up my inf with slingers and skirmishers. Phants on the flanks, cav hidden and wait.


The senate just rams up my guts , I spring the trap and the phants and cav attack their flanks . ( damn can't hide those phants!)

I'd never lost a battle of similar sized armies while defending before, but here the senate just chewed up those Iberian guys, my general is blowing his horn like mad but to no avail, the phants quickly run amok and the cavalry are slaughtered, full scale retreat and defeat, whew, I just managed to save my general from the rout.

Message-- don't mess with those senate guys till you're ready. Iberian infantry suck and elephants won't always win the day.