The Rise of Hannibal
The Ancients
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Hannibal's Command Structure
Hannibal's army also includes heavy cavalry from the iberians, probably a number of celt iberians. He has for his campaign 37 elephants, which he will take and march to italy with. One thing we tend to forget is that as important as all as this is the command structure. And hannibal isn't an alexander. He doesn't fight spear orsord hand at the head of the cavalry in most battles but he will have to be somewhere. These are big armies. But he can trust the command structure to work. He can trust detachments to do what they should do if he sends them off. And he can also trust the organization
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