QuoteReplyTopic: Hanibal vs Alexander Posted: 16-Feb-2006 at 13:25
I always wondered who would win if these guys met each other at battle...
I would say Hanibal cause he had more experience against high quality armies, Alexander fought mainly with a crumbling Persian Empire and her ragtag troops.
It all depends on the terrain, troops, who has the advantage coming into the battle. Hannibal was great at enveloping tactics and ambushing, Alexander was great at sensing how the battle was going and exploiting that, his ability to inspire troops and some would say luck. Like Constantine XI pointed out Hannibal studied Alexander (and ranked Alexander above him because of his loss to Scipio) so that would definitely give Hannibal the advantage.
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