Ancient Battle: Hannibal
HexWar Games · 2018 · Strategy
PC
Mixed60% · 10 📈 Making a comeback 73%
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About Ancient Battle: Hannibal
Ancient Battle: Hannibal is the newest edition to the Ancient Battles series. Experience the magnificence of the Punic Wars, as you follow Hannibal on his crucial campaign against Rome. Based upon, and a major upgrade to, the game system developed for Ancient Battle: Rome, a game that was the No.1 strategy game on the App Store in 8 different countries. Ancient Battle: Hannibal introduces many new game features including multi-level hills to elevate your strategic opportunities when commanding vast armies. Fight the battles of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Each campaign is themed around battles between Hannibal’s armies and their cunning opponents in the four geographical regions of Italy, Spain, Sicily and Africa. Hannibal’s inspired tactics and leadership made him one of Rome’s most dangerous enemies and possibly the greatest general of all time. Can you match his achievements on the battlefield?
Key Features:
Key Features:
- High Definition Ancient Era Graphics.
- 7 Mission ‘Tutorial’ campaign ending with a unique skirmish battle.
- 4 Mission ‘Sicily’ campaign, featuring battles from the First Punic War, including the battle of Bagradas.
- 8 Mission ‘Italy’ campaign featuring the decisive battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae.
- All missions, except the tutorial, can be played as both sides.
- 38 Unique Ancient units including Roman Hastati, Spanish Scutarii, Bolt Throwers and Elephants.
- Four classes of infantry: Raw, Average, Veteran and Elite.
- Detailed Combat Analysis.
- Flank Attacks
- Strategic Movement.
- Hours of Gameplay.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
So I bought this to play out Hannibal's battles in Italy. The Gettysburg game was pretty good. But in this game, you cannot get past Rhodanus which is the first Italian scenario. Even set on casual it's impossible. This means you can't get to the battles Hannibal had in Italy. Edit to add: It can be done, by using the save/load spam method. Because it's not that the AI is sneaky. It just cheats like crazy. Another review makes mention of this. The excessive cheating makes the game frustrating without being interesting. Can't recommend.8 found this helpful
Pretty fun. The AI in this one is a bit better than some of the others of this type, making a pretty decent historical sim.4 found this helpful
Good if basic board wargame. Light missile units maybe a bit too effective (cavalry can surely overrun light infantry archers or slingers), morale rules weak, but entertaining to play and good graphics.1 found this helpful
Easy to learn and fun to play. Some scenarios can be completed in 15 minutes. Other are more challenging.. There are some drawbacks though: a) missile troops have an unlimited supply of missiles making them rather too powerful, Historically, unless you were in fortified positions you were largely limited to what you could carry. b) sometimes you attack an enemy unit in the flank but don't get the flank attack bonus, c) Roman legionaries threw their pilum (a type of spear) before combat and then used their gladius (short sword). This doesn't seem to be reflected in game combat; the first time legionaries are in combat they get no bonus for the pilum, I'm not sure how accurate it is historically. Mind you for the price I'm not complaining.1 found this helpful
Easy to play and fun.
As ever with Hexwar, simple easy to play. Straight to battle without any need for empire building.
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