Hannibal & Hamilcar
The wargaming classic returns bigger – but is it better?
Designer: Simonitch, Andruszkiewicz Artist: Jedrzejewski, Kaczmarczyk, Szymanski, Słaby
If there’s a beauty to historical warfare – the fascination of reliving the taut strategising of virtuosic commanders across a sweeping battlefield – it’s to be found in Hannibal, Mark Simonitch’s 1996 historical recreation of the clashes between Rome and Carthage.
This, a 20th anniversary edition that packs in a revised and expanded version of that original game – plus a new mechanically similar but more naval-focused prequel, Hamilcar – is a fittingly gorgeous tribute to Simonitch’s politically-led simulation, with handsome artwork and the option to use plastic miniatures in the place of the cardboard tokens representing the generals of each side. (Though, it has to be said, we still prefer the tokens for clarity.)