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Caralis (215 BC) Scenario#: C3i13     Date: 215-BC     Location: Decimomannu, Sardinia Sardinia had been a Carthaginian province for centuries until the turmoil of the Truceless War (241-238) allowed Rome to opportunistically seize the island. This incident fed the hatred of Hamilcar Barca and his sons for Rome. While Hannibal was… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #22
Iliturgi (215 BC) Scenario#: C3i07     Date: 215-BC     Location: Iliturgi, Spain Following the decisive victory of the Scipio brothers at Dertosa (215), Carthage sent out 13,500 reinforcements for Hasdrubal Barca under his brother Mago. Hasdrubal reorganized his command of 18,000 men into three small armies, one under his… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #20
Dertosa (215 BC) Scenario#: 506     Date: 215-BC     Location: Dertosa, Spain After Cannae, Rome struggled to rebuild its armies, but needed time. In Spain, Hannibal’s brother Hasdrubal commanded an army large enough to possibly let Carthage win the war – if it united with Hannibal’s victorious veterans. Standing in his way, … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Dertosa (Ebro) (215 BC) Scenario#: 8     Date: 215-BC     Location: Catalonia, Spain After Cannae, Rome struggled to rebuild its armies, but needed time. In Spain, Hannibal’s brother Hasdrubal commanded an army large enough to possibly let Carthage win the war – if it united with Hannibal’s victorious veterans. Standing in his way, … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Castrum Album (214 BC) Scenario#: C3i09     Date: 214-BC     Location: Lucentum, Spain Following the defeat at Iliturgi, the Carthaginians made an unsuccessful attempt against Intibili, and then withdrew to the south. Early in the spring (214) they dealt with a major Iberian uprising, crushing the rebel army and re-imposing Punic… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #20
2nd Beneventum (214 BC) Scenario#: 9     Date: 214-BC     Location: Benevento, Italy Desperate for manpower to replace the losses at Cannae, the Romans found a unique solution. They formed two legions from slaves. They were given to the Consul Gracchus who saw their potential and trained them well. Two years later, still … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Orongis (212 BC) Scenario#: C3i04     Date: 212-BC     Location: Orongis, Spain Mago Barca began the Second Punic War as a subordinate commander under his brother Hannibal. In 215 he was given command of his own army, and sent to Spain to reinforce his other brother, Hasdrubal. Mago fought a series of … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19
Trebbia (218 BC) Scenario#: 5     Date: 212-BC     Location: Trebbia, Italy After the battle at the Ticinus River, Hannibal soon faced an entire Roman army under the Consul Sempronius. As vain as he was inept, Sempronius wanted a victory to finish our his year as Consul. He took no cautionary advise … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Himeras River (211 BC) Scenario#: C3i14     Date: 211-BC     Location: Himera, Sicily Western Sicily had been a Carthaginian province for centuries, until Rome captured it in the First Punic War. Hannibal sent an agent, Epicydes, to Syracuse to lead a rebellion against Rome in 214. Rome responded by sending M. Claudius Marcellus … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #22
Castulo (211 BC) Scenario#: 10     Date: 211-BC     Location: Castulo, Spain Time runs out for Publius Scipio. After several years of unbroken successes, the Scipio brothers rashly divide their armies to defeat the Carthaginians in detail. As Publius’s army nears Castulo, he realizes he is facing superior Carthaginian numbers… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Baecula (208 BC) Scenario#: 11     Date: 208-BC     Location: Baecula, Spain Publius Cornelius Scipio inherited his slain father’s bravery, but he also had the intelligence to modify standard Roman tactical doctrine. As he rebuilt and retrained the legions in Spain, he made them far more flexible tactically than any other… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Celtiberia (207 BC) Scenario#: C3i05     Date: 207-BC     Location: Celtiberia, Spain Following the Battle of Baecula, Hasdrubal and Mago Barca and Hasdrubal Gisco gathered for a council of war in 208 BC. They decided that Hasdrubal Barca would cross the Alps into Italy. Mago broke up his army to provide troops … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19
Metaurus (207 BC) Scenario#: 12     Date: 207-BC     Location: Fano, Italy In 207 BC Rome has a big problem—Hasdrubal and his army from Spain are in northern Italy, advancing to combine with Hannibal and possibly win the war. The Carthaginians have a problem too. The Romans know Hasdrubal is coming, but … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Ilipa (206 BC) Scenario#: 502     Date: 206-BC     Location: Seville, Spain Hasdrubal's departure to join Hannibal in Italy left only two Carthaginian armies in Spain under mediocre commanders (Hasdrubal yes another one, and Mago). Scipio made steady progress against them, securing territory and prompting many Spanish tribes… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Ilipa (206 BC) Scenario#: 13     Date: 206-BC     Location: Seville, Spain Hasdrubal’s departure left only two Carthaginian armies in Spain under mediocre commanders (Hasdrubal – yes another one, and Mago). Scipio made steady progress against them, securing territory and prompting many Spanish tribes to come over to the… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Agathocles Tower (204 BC) Scenario#: C3i11     Date: 204-BC     Location: Salaeca, Tunisia When Scipio Africanus invaded Africa in 204 BC, Carthage was caught without a field army. Carthage entrusted its immediate defense to Hanno son of Hamilcar. Hanno raised 4,000 cavalry - about 1,000 civic noble heavy cavalry, 1,000 Libyan cavalry and… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #21
Cirta (203 BC) Scenario#: C3i12     Date: 203-BC     Location: Constantine, Algeria Following his victory at Agathocles' Tower, Scipio Africanus was penned in when Hasdrubal Gisgo and Syphax arrived with two large armies. Unable to face them in open battle, Scipio destroyed these armies with a treacherous night attack after feigning… Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #21
Po River (203 BC) Scenario#: C3i06     Date: 203-BC     Location: Po Valley, Italy Following Scipio’s victory at Ilipa in 206 Mago once again sailed to the Balearic Isles to recruit mercenaries. Then, rather than fall back to Africa, as everyone expected, Mago launched the third Barcid invasion of Italy. With new levies from … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C3i Magazine #19
Bagradas (253 BC) Scenario#: 509     Date: 203-BC     Location: Medjerda, Tunisia The Romans are on the verge of defeating Carthage and ending the First Punic War. Regulus and a veteran Roman army landed in Africa, and, though woefully short of cavalry, defeated several Carthaginian forces. Desperate, the Carthaginians turned to… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Great Plains (203 BC) Scenario#: 14     Date: 203-BC     Location: Zana, Tunisia Scipio, the victor of Baecula and Ilipa, has led his battle-hardened army to Africa, and has placed the city of Utica under siege. The Great Numidian cavalry leader, Masinissa, has gone over to the Roman side. While the siege continues, … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Zama (202 BC) Scenario#: 504     Date: 202-BC     Location: Siliana, Tunisia Carthage is on the verge of defeat. Spain has been lost, Scipio has landed in Africa and beaten a large, but inexperienced, Carthaginian army at the Battle of the Great Plains. Masinissa has taken his vaunted Numidian light horse over … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Zama (202 BC) Scenario#: 15     Date: 202-BC     Location: Siliana, Tunisia Carthage is on the verge of defeat. Spain has been lost. Scipio has landed in Africa and beaten a large, but inexperienced, Carthaginian army at the Battle of the Great Plains, and Masinissa with his vaunted Numidian light horse has … Commands & Colors: Ancients — C&C Ancients
Cynoscephalae (197 BC) Scenario#: 120     Date: 197-BC     Location: Thessaly, Greece Victory in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) established Rome as the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean. Since Philip V of Macedon had allied with Hannibal during that war, Rome had a score to settle. Rome used complaints from … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Magnesia (190 BC) Scenario#: 121     Date: 190-BC     Location: Izmir Province, Turkey Following his defeat at Raphia, Antiochus III campaigned continuously to restore his empire. He re-conquered Asia Minor, Armenia, Parthia and Bactria. Next, he avenged Raphia with a decisive victory over the Ptolemaic Egyptians at Panion in 199 BC.… Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Pydna (168 BC) Scenario#: 124     Date: 168-BC     Location: Pydna, Greece The Roman victory at Cynoscephalae (197) had humbled, but not eliminated, the Macedonian army. As the reality of Roman world domination became clear, most of Greece rallied to support Perseus, the son of Philip V. The Third Macedonian War broke … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #1: Greeks and Eastern Kingdoms
Arausio (105 BC) Scenario#: 505     Date: 105-BC     Location: Arausio, France Following the Punic Wars, Rome set out to consolidate the territories it had captured beyond the Alps. At the same time, a major migration by the Cimbri, Teutons, and Ambrones, under the Kings Boiorix and Teutobod, was moving south, reportedly … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #5: Epic Ancients II
Arausio (105 BC) Scenario#: 204     Date: 105-BC     Location: Arausio, France Following the Punic Wars, Rome set out to consolidate the territories it had captured beyond the Alps. At the same time a major migration by the Cimbri, Teutons and Ambrones under the Kings Boiorix and Teutobod was moving south, reportedly … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Scirthaea (103 BC) Scenario#: 205     Date: 103-BC     Location: Caltabellotta, Sicily The fiercest Slave revolt outbreak, before Spartacus, was known as the Second Sicilian Slave War (104-100 BC). Publius Licinius Nerva, governor of Sicily, in accordance with a Senatorial order that no citizen of an allied state could be kept as … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Aquae Sextiae (102 BC) Scenario#: 206     Date: 102-BC     Location: Aix-en-Provence, France Following the disaster at Aruasio in 105 BC, Rome elected Marius as Consul to deal with the emergency. He was granted a reprieve as the Teutones and Ambrones decided to invade Spain rather than Italy, and spent the years 104-103 … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians
Vercellae (101 BC) Scenario#: 207     Date: 101-BC     Location: Vercellae, Italy Following his victory over the Teutons and Ambrones at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, Gaius Marius moved east to join Quintus Lutatius Catulus against the Cimbri in the Po valley of northern Italy. Beorix, the Cimbri king, had been waiting … Commands & Colors: Ancients — Expansion #2: Rome and the Barbarians