Guide to Defeat Hannibal

[The10thLegion]

Anyone can put there own guide here or post a video but this is my guide to beat hannibal with one legion without losing a city, or adding different units.

1. Move your legion in the campaign map up halfway to hannibal and halfway to Paestum. The next turn he should attack you. This is good if you dont like to fight in the forest as its hard to manuever sometimes in there if you attack him.

2. Your formation should stay the same except put a triarii on each flank and put your velites behind your troops. Put all your hastasti and princepes on fire at will + guard mode. Turn skirmisher mode off for your velites and turn off their fire at will. Then start the battle.

3. In my expierience Hannibal puts most of his elephants on one flank. Move your extra triarri in front of the velites on a hill and his elephants will attack the triarri. Tell your velites to fire at the elephants and they should be massacred without losing to many men.

4. His calvary will then attack from either/both sides. put your triarri to stop his flanking manuevers. They should withdraw after taking around 50 or so casulties. and hannibals infantry move forward. He will probably try to swarm on point. Put your extra triarri to move there as your princepes will already be engaged there.

5. Move your calvary to take out his. and flank his infantry with your 2 triarri guarding your flank. Move your general to the spot where hannibal en massed at and rally him.

6. His calvary should be routing by now and charge your calvary into 1 unit of his archers.

7. After the unit of archers break charge into the next set and defeat them. When you defeat this unit charge into the backs of the enemy and they will break after some time.

8. En masse to any remaining units that arent already defeated.

A whole battle can be changed just by a single move of Hannibals or yours. Every time ive fought him hes done it very close to this and I defeat him. I am always open to new suggestions and if there is a better way i would love to see it.

[Valerius Tiberius]

i think that's the basic way that everyone takes him on your way is very alike to mine

[The10thLegion]

dont you let him take paestum though?

[Valerius Tiberius]

nope, first turn i go to a little hill close to him, then press end turn and he attacks Paestum shall stay Roman!!

[Hesus de bodemloze]

he got paestum at my campaing but thats becous i moved to slow if you kill off his elephants the battle is half won

[The10thLegion]

my main or first objectives in a battle are to wipe out all enemy calvary, elephants, and/or artillery. Then ill take out missile units.

[The10thLegion]

the infantry can do the rest lol

[Hesus de bodemloze]

yeah first cav, elephants and artillery the rest is easy for your legioneirs

[The10thLegion]

hastati usually get wiped out though

[Valerius Tiberius]

not always, if you fight correct they survive and can be used against Theophanes again, though they will suffer the most

[The10thLegion]

by the 3rd battle is what i mean.

[Valerius Tiberius]

3th?

[The10thLegion]

3rd battle with the original Quintus legion. No reinforcements, (unless you use Flavius), no extra men, etc

[Tiberius Nero]

I find the highest hill I can on the first turn and wait Theagenes to attack; after I defeat him, Hannibal attacks next; that is a tough double battle but I have won it twice on the same spot, standard formation, triplex acies, with slingers and velites running around where needed and shooting from higher ground, which tends to do wonders with elephants. Trarii and equites support my missile troops.

[S u l l a]

I find the highest hill I can on the first turn and wait Theagenes to attack; after I defeat him, Hannibal attacks next; that is a tough double battle but I have won it twice on the same spot, standard formation, triplex acies, with slingers and velites running around where needed and shooting from higher ground, which tends to do wonders with elephants. Trarii and equites support my missile troops.

I do the same, although with a specific formation I have mentioned in tactics thread for pre-marian units.

[Valerius Tiberius]

you mean capturing Taras then?
cause 1th= Hannibal, 2nd= Theophanes
3th= Taras?

[The10thLegion]

pretty much

[Hakomar]

Theopanes always kicks my ass, he always rushes me with his elephants first causing a load of casulaties and then I kill them with my velites, and crush my men as they die and then amok along my lines until they are all dead :S.
Also his cav waits on my flanks and I try to take them out with some triarii and equites, but his infantry and load of mercenaries and pushing back my infantry. Also my faction leader somehow died...

Is that bad? He took out about 50% of my army before I had to mop up his routers. I repeatedly hammer and anvilled after I eventually managed to get his cavalry off my ass.
Any help on what to do next time?
Its happened every time I reset the save, but I'm not sure on what to do because his
elephants crush my men when they die, and his cav seems to last 3/4 of the battle.

Edit:
Extreme apologies for necro-posting, it was a link in a newer thread. Should of looked at the post times first, again I apologise.

[czePowerslave]

Theopanes always kicks my ass, he always rushes me with his elephants first causing a load of casulaties and then I kill them with my velites, and crush my men as they die and then amok along my lines until they are all dead :S.
Also his cav waits on my flanks and I try to take them out with some triarii and equites, but his infantry and load of mercenaries and pushing back my infantry. Also my faction leader somehow died...

Is that bad? He took out about 50% of my army before I had to mop up his routers. I repeatedly hammer and anvilled after I eventually managed to get his cavalry off my ass.
Any help on what to do next time?
Its happened every time I reset the save, but I'm not sure on what to do because his
elephants crush my men when they die, and his cav seems to last 3/4 of the battle.

Edit:
Extreme apologies for necro-posting, it was a link in a newer thread. Should of looked at the post times first, again I apologise.

Help your cavalry with Triarii and you will see. Use velites on elephants and battle is won, with easily some 400 casualties max

[The10thLegion]

Theophanes is your secondn battle so it shouldn't matter if you lose most of your army, although don't engage your general unless neccasary.

don't worry about necroposting but Im surprised someone found this lol