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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: mollinary on 25 February 2018, 08:05:22 PM

Title: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: mollinary on 25 February 2018, 08:05:22 PM
An unpromising title, but worth a watch? On now 8.00pm UK time on Channel 4!

Mollinary
Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: Steve J on 25 February 2018, 09:05:22 PM
Recording it as I type so that I can watch it at my leisure later on this week.
Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: Norm on 25 February 2018, 10:11:03 PM
Thanks - also recorded it. I played the new remake of GMT's Hannibal - Rome Vs Carthage on Friday night, so this documentary comes at an interesting time for me.
Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: Ithoriel on 25 February 2018, 10:39:20 PM
Not sure it told me anything new but I rather enjoyed it.

Definitely better than the somewhat turgid episode of Troy I'd watched in Catch Up before it!
Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: Techno on 26 February 2018, 07:17:09 AM
Missed that.  :(

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: Matt J on 26 February 2018, 09:48:04 AM
Bit disappointed really, it was a bit of 'how to turn the analysis of a soil sample into an hour long documentary', all the other evidence was pretty circumstantial particularly the bit about the rock slides and interpreting Polybius (who wasn't there and was writing years later)  :-

Hannibal had a large army and he picked up many local Gaulist tribes along the way with local knowledge, the army probably used several routes through the alps.
Title: Re: Hannibal’s Elephant Army: The New Evidence!
Post by: SV52 on 26 February 2018, 10:35:02 AM
Typical of the 'Secret' type of prog., high on guesswork, assumption and individual interpretation.