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product_id: 11118277
title: "Ancient Warfare: Punic Wars"
brand: "hps simulation"
price: "25.19 OMR"
currency: OMR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 4
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# 16 tabletop adaptations 41 scenarios 17 historical battles Ancient Warfare: Punic Wars

**Brand:** hps simulation
**Price:** 25.19 OMR
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚔️ Forge Your Legacy in Ancient Warfare!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Ancient Warfare: Punic Wars by hps simulation
- **How much does it cost?** 25.19 OMR with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.om](https://www.desertcart.com.om/products/11118277-ancient-warfare-punic-wars)

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- hps simulation enthusiasts

## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Tabletop Series Integration:** Enjoy 16 scenarios adapted from the beloved Table Top Series for a seamless gaming experience.
- • **Unleash Your Inner Strategist:** Dive into 41 immersive scenarios that challenge your tactical prowess.
- • **Join a Community of Strategists:** Connect with fellow gamers and historians as you conquer the ancient world.
- • **Experience History Like Never Before:** Engage with 17 meticulously crafted historical battles, including Cannae and Trebbia.
- • **Hypothetical Scenarios for Creative Minds:** Explore 8 unique hypothetical battles that push the boundaries of strategy.

## Overview

Ancient Warfare: Punic Wars offers a comprehensive gaming experience with 41 scenarios, including 17 historical battles and 8 hypothetical scenarios, alongside 16 adaptations from the Table Top Series, allowing players to immerse themselves in the strategic complexities of ancient warfare.

## Description

Ancient Warfare: Punic Wars lets you act out what is arguably the most important war of the ancient world. The Punic Wars were a series of conflicts between the two largest nations of the Mediterranean: Rome and Carthage. The forces involved, and the casualties suffered, were the greatest of the ancient world. The outcome was the destruction of Carthage and the rise of Rome as a massive empire. In the time period presented here, between 300-200 BC, Rome will face both the might of Carthage and the surrounding threats of Celtic and Iberian tribes -- even rival Italian states.

## Features

- 41 scenarios included - 17 historical, 8 hypothetical & 16 from the Table Top Series
- Covers historical battles like Cannae, Asculum, Heraclea & Trebbia

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## Customer Reviews

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    BUYER BEWARE
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2008*

Buyer Beware--  This is not a John Tiller Game, it is a paul breffell game and I wasted over thirty dollars buying it. Far too much time taken up with each turn having to set up, ect, instead of just moving the men and fighting. It is nothing like and I mean nothing like the Tiller games we all love to play. I wish I could get my money back.

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    A lot of potential with poor execution
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2010*

Other reviewers have commented on graphics: to me these are fine for a real tactical / strategy game.  In fact being able to move from 2-D overview to 3-D field view was very well done.What failed miserably in HPS's Punic Wars are command/execution/control of units.  Clicking opens a window, clicking again to tell it to move, clicking where you want it to go. it is a very cluncky interface.  Moreover, you have ZERO control over who your missile troops fire at.  The game states they fire at the "most dangerous/threatening" opponent.  This is tactics with one hand tied behind your back.HPS needs to take a clue from Slitherine who's PC version Field of Glory works in a similar manner but it is much easier and MUCH more fun to control the units.  Punic Wars SHOULD be better than than Field of Glory: Punic wars offers some good features such as showing the visual range of units, but Punic wars is so poorly executed that I would tell some one looking for a tactical historical wargame to look for slitherine's Field of Glory.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Well done and fun to play!
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2009*

This is a turn-based game with a Real Time Strategy feel that requires a good deal of thinking and planning. This is not a plug n play, beer n pretzels type game. The game reminds me of the old game Harpoon for the pc. Both take time to learn, time to plan but have big rewards in playability and enjoyment. A couple of hours reading and a couple of canceled games allow you to hold own in the training scenario. While not winning, I am not stumbling around the field being beaten quickly. I hold my own and make a fight of it. The next step is to answer a couple of questions, learn more about the variety of units, their capabilities and their formations. After mastering the Romans, you can stay with them or start working on the Carthaginians.Each type of unit has a number of actions points to spend during the turn. Small lightly armed units have the most action points. Heavy infantry has the fewest. Each turn is divided into phases with action points allocated to each phase. When giving orders, you have to think about what the other side might be doing to adjust your orders. Leaders are critical. Without them, units have a tendency to freeze, waiting for orders. This makes for a very dynamic battlefield where formations and plans are necessary. When you are ready, advance the turn.The computer takes over and this turn base game becomes an RTS. The phases alternate between the players. While who moves first and the sequence units move are fixed, the visual effect is units moving together. Combat is automatic and occurs as part of each phase. At the end of the turn, combat results are applied. Units lose men, become disrupted or route and your army's moral is calculated. As the army's moral drops, routing become a bigger problem. Fatigue is cumulative causing moral to drop, which leads to more units routing which lead to lower moral ......The AI is excellent! Very aggressive, intelligent and focused on winning. This is not one of those wimp games where you are soon winning with very little effort.Graphics and sound are excellent too. This is a noisy game with sounds for men, elephants, horses and the clash of metal. The graphics are way above the HPS Civil War Campaign series. The units are very well rendered, easy to distinguish and colorful. The landscape has a tabletop feel to it. The game has the look and feel of a good set of miniatures on a large sand table.There are 140 +/- scenarios that come with the game or with the free update from HPS. The Net has an active set of players looking for play by e-mail. A forum is available to answer questions, provide ideas, find an email opponent or just talk about the game. I have all of the HPS Civil War Campaign games and have looked at this for a long time. It is a different engine for a very different game. This game is not a clone with different pixels tossed together for a quick buck. Punic Wars does as good a job capturing the feel ancient warfare as possible. If you make the effort to learn the game, it will reward you with hours of fun.While writing this review, I found some errors made in the last game that brings me a step closer to victory. What I need is some ideas on how to kill a Carthage war elephant.While listed as a game for Windows XP Home Edition, I have a 64-bit Vista system. HPS has information on how to do this and the game works fine with the newer OS.

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