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Crossing the Alps, 218 BC
Scenario Instructions
Your plan to march into Italy through the Alps is brilliant but fraught with risk. There are dangerous tribes in the mountains and Roman garrisons in the foothills at the base of the Alps. It is likely that the Gauls in northern Italy will rally to your cause if you can break through. Scouts marked the pass through the mountains, but were then taken prisoner. If you can locate and free them, they might be of great use in your effort to break through.
Objective
- Get both Armored Elephants and Hannibal past the double flags in the lower corner of the map.
- The Romans have gotten advance word of your arrival and have started preparing for battle. Move quickly to lessen their preparation time.
- Use waypoints to guide your troops through the narrow valleys. To use waypoints, click a unit, press SHIFT, right-click each point along the path, release the SHIFT key, and then right-click the last point in the path.
In 219 BC the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage was instigated in Spain, where Hannibal of Carthage invaded the Greek city of Sarguntum (an ally of Rome). The Romans demanded that Carthage lift the siege and surrender Hannibal. Carthage refused and Rome declared war. Hannibal took the city by storm after an eight-month siege. He then advanced north into Gaul with an army of 50,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry, and 80 elephants.
Catching Rome by surprise, Hannibal led his army across Gaul, up the Rhone River Valley, into modern Switzerland, across the Alps in October, and down into the Po River Valley. Due to harsh winter conditions in the mountains and resistance from mountain tribes, he arrived in Italy with only 20,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and a few elephants.
While Rome hurried troops north, Hannibal recruited Gauls. He met the Romans in three major battles at Trebia (218 BC), Lake Trasimene (217 BC), and Cannae (216 BC). All were resounding Carthaginian victories leaving approximately 120,000 Romans dead. The Romans were forced to avoid open battle for several years while a new generation of soldiers grew old enough for duty. But Hannibal lacked the strength to take Rome itself. For 14 more years he devastated the countryside and tried to convince the other cities of Italy to drop their allegiance to Rome.
Defeats in Spain and a Roman invasion of North Africa finally forced Hannibal to return home. With a largely untrained army, he met Scipio's veterans at the battle of Zama in 202 BC. The Roman victory brought an end to the Second Punic War and to Carthage's empire.
Your crossing of the Alps was a masterstroke that has amazed the world. All Carthage applauds you and your army. The Romans now feel the revenge of Carthage. We will once more be masters of the Mediterranean.
Your failure in the Alps has doomed the efforts of Carthage in this second war with Rome. They control the seas already. Taking the war into Italy was our great hope for keeping them off-balance. Now our colonies in Spain are under attack because so many of our troops from there were lost with you. It is only a matter of time before a great Roman army lands in North Africa itself. You were a fool to think elephants could cross the Alps.
穿過阿爾卑斯山脈,公元前二一八年
劇本任務指示
你從阿爾卑斯山脈行軍進入義大利的計劃固然稱得上是別具隻眼,但又不可不謂兵行險著。不說山間充斥著許多危險的部落,阿爾卑斯山麓的丘陵群還有不少羅馬駐軍。若你能夠順利突破此地,北義大利的高盧人將很可能會集結在你的麾下。斥候們記下了通過山間的關口,但隨即就遭到俘虜。如果你找到並救出他們的話,他們或許會為你突破此地貢獻出一臂之力。
目標
- 將武裝戰象與漢尼拔帶過地圖下方的雙桿旗處。
- 羅馬人已經事先知悉你的來臨,並且已經開始著手備戰。迅速行動以減少他們的準備時間。
- 使用航點引導你的部隊穿過狹谷。要使用航點時,選取一個單位,按下 SHIFT 鍵,在沿路上的每一點都按右鍵,放開 SHIFT 鍵,然後在路的終點按右鍵。
就在公元前二一九年,羅馬與迦太基之間的第二次布匿戰爭於西班牙爆發,迦太基的漢尼拔在此入侵希臘城市薩貢托(羅馬盟邦之一),羅馬人要求迦太基放棄圍城及交出漢尼拔,但迦太基斷意拒絕了這些要求,羅馬則以宣戰做為回應。經過八個月的攻城戰後,漢尼拔迅速攻陷了該城,而他隨即率領由五萬步兵、九千騎兵及八十隻戰象組成的軍隊朝北方的高盧進發。
讓羅馬人意想不到的是,漢尼拔竟然帶他的軍隊穿過高盧,走上隆河河谷,進入了今天的瑞士,更於十月期間穿過阿爾卑斯山脈,深入波河河谷。由於山間嚴酷的冬天氣候以及來自山民部落的抵抗,他到義大利時祇剩下二萬步兵、六千騎兵及少量戰象。
就在羅馬匆忙地遣軍北上時,漢尼拔則羅致了高盧人。他與羅馬人在三場主要戰役對壘:特雷比亞河之戰(公元前二一八年)、特拉西梅諾湖之戰(公元前二一七年)和坎尼之戰(公元前二一六年)。全部戰役都以迦太基人大勝告終,讓差不多十二萬羅馬人戰死沙場,結果羅馬人及後數年在新一代士卒長成服役前都被迫避開與迦太基作正面交鋒,然而漢尼拔始終欠缺直搗羅馬本土的力量,他在十四年間一直都停留在侵襲城郊和勸說其他義大利城市放棄與羅馬的盟約。
西班牙的敗北及羅馬人入侵北非終於讓漢尼拔不得不撤軍還國,去到公元前二零二年時,他在札馬之戰裡帶著一支訓練無素的蟻聚之兵對上西庇阿屬下的精銳部隊,而羅馬的這場勝利為第二次布匿戰爭及迦太基王國兩者雙雙畫下句點。
你成功穿過阿爾卑斯山脈可謂震驚世界的創舉,整個迦太基為您和您的軍隊喝采。羅馬人現在絕對感受到迦太基的復仇之火,而我們亦即將重歸地中海之主的寶座。
你在阿爾卑斯的敗北讓迦太基第二次對羅馬的戰爭陷入劣勢。他們已經控制周邊海域,將戰線推到義大利本來是我們打破困局的最大希望,可是現在我們在西班牙的殖民地卻因為你拖垮我軍主力而遭到攻擊,大批羅馬軍於北非登陸祇不過是時間的問題了。以為象群可以穿過阿爾卑斯山脈的你真是愚不可及。
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