Realism vs gameplay balancing?

[PROMETHEUS]

Absolutely not to what?

I explained enough clearly seems to me that the victory at cannae went to Hannibal due to his superior tactics not to any superiority of his troops wich were actually inferior to the roman troops ..... this is history is not that I am changing facts ...

Prometheus, the Romans had more than 50`000 infantry. They had 86`000 total. Unfortunately they had the 10`000 Triarii watching the camp. Foolish mistake. If they had kept their Triarii on the battlefield, they might've defended against the cavalry-charges from the rear. And so, at the battlefield, the Romans wielded 70`000 infantry and 6`000 cavalry.

You didnt read well may be....

I requote myself...

50,000-60,000 Romans died—20,000 were captured, and 16,000 escaped . For their part the Carthaginians lost 6,000 men, the Celts and Iberians accounting for about 5,000 of these.

this according to different sources not only one.....

And if u want to quote Polybius here is a passage liber III

117. Such was the end of the battle of Cannae, in which both sides fought with the most conspicuous gallantry, the conquered no less than the conquerors. This is proved by the fact that, out of six thousand horse, only seventy escaped with Caius Terentius to Venusia, and about three hundred of the allied cavalry to various towns in the neighborhood. Of the infantry ten thousand were taken prisoners in fair fight, but were not actually engaged in the battle: of those who were actually engaged only about three thousand perhaps escaped to the towns of the surrounding district; all the rest died nobly, to the number of seventy thousand, the Carthaginians being on this occasion, as on previous ones, mainly indebted for their victory to their superiority in cavalry: a lesson to posterity that in actual war it is better to have half the number of infantry, and the superiority in cavalry, than to engage your enemy with an equality in both. On the side of Hannibal there fell four thousand Celts, fifteen hundred Iberians and Libyans, and about two hundred horse.

[Shigawire]

I was replying to C00lizz. Look at the post.