Total War™: ROME II – Hannibal at the GatesDropping you into the Western Mediterranean at the outbreak of the 2nd Punic War, Hannibal at the Gates features a new campaign map focused on the period that brou
Marcus Aurelius intended to continue pressing north of the Alps, but the untimely death of Lucius Verus forced a brief respite to the offensive plans. Marcus returned to Rome to oversee thefuneralof his adopted brother and son-in-law, but soon returned north to settle matters more permanently....
and 208. In 222 he warred successfully against the Gauls. After the battle of Cannae (216), he defende Nola against Hannibal. From 214 to 211 he headed the Sicilian expedition that took Syracuse after a long siege. In 209 he was defeated and then caught in an ambush by the Carthaginian...
the Romans defeated the tribe of the Insubres, took Milan, and established colonies in a buffer zone. In theSecond Punic War, Hannibal ofCarthagemade an alliance with the Gallic Cenomani against the Romans; the Romans prevailed, however, and by 181Romehad subjugated and colonized Cisalpine Gau...