Where are you Hannibal???????

Carthage Barca · September 2, 2002, 14:13

Ive seen the pictures for all of the enw leaders except for Hannibal Barca of Carthage. I have visited many sites but all i see is the celts,koreans,ottomans,arabs,spanish,mongolian, and vikings leader heads. Has any one out there seen the leader head picture for Hannibal of Carthage? If so i would really appreciate it if you would post it. Thanks in advance.

Darkworld Ark · September 2, 2002, 14:29

No, he hasn't been shown yet, perhaps they're saving him up for a suprise in PtW?

Caliban · September 2, 2002, 14:42

Maybe he is so ugly he has no pic at all...

Carthage Barca · September 2, 2002, 14:47

lol that very well could be. Old Hannibal was blind in one eye and was always riding on elephants so i doubt that he smelled very well

ixnay · September 2, 2002, 15:15

Yes, I demand that firaxis release a pic of Hannibal for my leaders thread.

History Guy · September 2, 2002, 19:47

Well, on the other hand, he might be the best looking of them all...even better than Brennus!

Carthage Barca · September 2, 2002, 21:36

Does anyone know a site that could fill me in on some info on Brennus? I'm not so hot when it comes to Celtic history...well they ahve won 16 NBA titles and Larry Bird was awsome.......ahhh crap wrong type of celtics!

Galvatron · September 3, 2002, 10:39

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Originally posted by History Guy
Well, on the other hand, he might be the best looking of them all...even better than Brennus!

Given the pictures of Khan and the Korean guy you are more than right but in the end Jeanne and Isa are quite nice and I like both of them.

Hmm regarding the picture of Hannibal I'm also more than interested to see him well given the educational status Firaxis had shown in creating the game I would not be surprised if they would present that guy from the A-Team as Hannibal the leader

Hagbart · September 3, 2002, 12:25

Maybe they haven't chosen Hannibal as the leader of the Carthagians! They chose some Ragnar Unknown guy as the leader of the Vikings!

Galvatron · September 3, 2002, 12:59

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Originally posted by Hagbart
They chose some Ragnar Unknown guy as the leader of the Vikings!

Yeahh our good fellow Ragnar whatever. I agree with you this chose was more than bad but it give us some good time and a good laugh making jokes about him here:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=60472

/me still ships his longboat to Baltimore

History Guy · September 3, 2002, 17:25

Brennus was actually rather important. He, after all, led the Cisalpine Gauls into raiding Clusium, and then they went after Rome itself in c.390BC, defeating a Roman army at Allia, and sacking the city itself, all but the Capitoline falling. Brennus withdrew only after receiving a tribute of 1000 pounds of silver. The story is that when he was receiving the tribute, a Roman tribune said that the Celtic scales were unfair, and Brennus angrily tossed his own sword onto the scales and shouted "Woe to the defeated!" The Romans never forgot that, it was the greatest wound to their national pride ever.

Geoffrey of Monmouth also says that Brennus was a British prince who had been ousted from his kingdom and fled to Cisalpine Gaul, where he'd become the king. If so, Brennus would also be the first great British hero as well. Interesting guy, Brennus.

(Signed, History Guy, in his longboat, heading for Baltimore...)

GoodFella · September 3, 2002, 21:37

Normally I would find it hard to believe Hannibal could be any uglier than Ghengis, but with Firaxis you never know...

History Guy · September 4, 2002, 20:25

Hmm...maybe Good Fella...but one must remember that the guy who does the Civ3 portraits is a very good artist, the same guy who did all the portraits for Civ2, Gettysburg, SMAC, and SMAX. This guy can draw extremely well, and if we underestimate him for making Genghis look like the real Genghis, a guy who never took a bath in his life, then we are making a serious mistake!