Why didnt Hannibal seige Rome?

>>3165937
Tiber trout is famous for its low mercury content. It would keep him and his warriors strong. Not only that, if he decided for intensive trout fishing in upstream Tiber, he could've had caused severe deficiency in essential amino-acids of Roman population.

>>3165937
He feared the roman warrior.

Yeah just feed 50,000 men on trout what could possibly go wrong

>>3165937
>Fishing a river will feed a 50,000 man army

Jesus christ, how the fuck can you possibly be this retarded.

Day 1: 50,000 men catch 1 trout each. Life is good.

Day 2: Hmmm there seems to be a mysterious lack of trout in this river.

>>3166122
Maybe they set up a trout farm if its a long seige. Ya dont gotta be an asshole

>>3166106
Whats wrong wit that?

>>3165937
>>3166084
>>3166141
>Implying that Hannibal could have seiged Rome if food weren't an issue

Even if Hannibal could feed his men, he wouldn't be able to sustain a siege of Rome because of the fact that the city still had food coming in from the Mediterranean, which the Carthaginian navy was unable to stop.

Furthermore, Hannibal didn't even have the manpower to do it anyway. If a siege of Rome were possible, he would have done it.

>>3167487
This, Hannibal was hoping that his victories would make the Latin allies in Italy betray Rome and join with him.