Military History |
Rise of Rome
Punic Wars and Conquest of Hispania (240 – 20 BC)
From 264 Roman fought three bitter wars with Carthage over the western Mediterranean. Roman triumphed and as a side effect began its conquest of Iberian. But Iberia was a tough nut to crack. It took 200 years for the Romans to conquer the peninsular.
The Carthaginians were my first wargames army as an adult - I inherited and expanded my father's 1/72 scale converted Airfix army. They are long gone but now I have a beautiful set of Carthaginian, Roman and Spanish armies in 15 mm for the Punic Wars. As it happens, I also have some their Macedonian contemporaries ... Seleucid.
Iberian Large Shield Cavalry