What the fuck were they thinking?

>>3281386
The feared the African warrior.

probably didn't help that the consuls were killed in the cavalry fighting early on and as such there was little ability to co-ordinate. Also the only romans to survive at Trebia and Trasimine were those who powered through the weak Carthaginian center encouraging the Romans to further stack the center.

>>3281386
They didn't fight in their traditional maniple formation but decided to power through with their numbers alone.

The in every way superior black Nubian cavalry crushed them