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    Default Which of these two representations of the city of Capua is the closest to how it looked like?

    We see two different representations of Capua in Rome 2 Total War:

    A- In the Prologue campaign: The city has walls and a river both very close and in front of the city.
    B- In the Rise of the Republic campaing: It has no walls and there is no river close to the city

    My question is:
    How did Capua look like during the Samnite wars times? Did it look more or less like in the Prologue or like in the in Rise of the Republic campaign?
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    Default Re: Which of these two representations of the city of Capua is the closest to how it looked like?

    How did Capua look like during the Samnite wars times? Did it look more or less like in the Prologue or like in the in Rise of the Republic campaign?
    It sat next to a river and very certainly would have been walled in that era. Off the top of my head I can't recall if being dis walled was a part of the punishment for defection to Hannibal (second punic war era). But even imperial Pompey had the basic Roman walls if not some grand defensive scheme so that seems unlikely. Certainly the river did not get up and walk away.

    I suppose speculatively later wealthy republican Capua might have spilled beyond its walls and realistically by the late Republic the only threat it would face was more or less a Roman Army fighting a civil war with other Roman armies.
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