Slitherine

Hannibal's lot are polular but bottom of the rankings. Yet looking at the list they seem an average army at worst. Why do they fare so poorly in competitions?

I think they are a bit of a 'swiss army knife' type of army - lots of different troop types but not really enough of any one thing to do well?

My guess is that, being a popular army to build, a lot of people use them early in their FoG career because they have the figures. As a result, the Carthos spend more time than most clawing their way up the learning curve, and getting roughly handled for their trouble.

There are a number of good troop types in the army, which leads me to think that there is a good list in there. The African Veterans seem like a solid base for a winning army.

Marc

Romantics

The thing about Carthage is that it is a "toolbox army" with limited punch\shock ability, which is not a bad thing, but requires a certain skill level to use effectively

I wouldn't play this army without some African Veterans.

I love this army and even won some comp with them but it have a terrible default.
it's too slow and have not enough punch to win in time in a major comp.

They suffer from having their punch delivered by very fragile troops, Elephants and protected Impact MF. I suspect that if Fog 2.0 gives better resilience for Elephants, than it can be a very competitive army, having a core of strong HF troops than most Elephants armies do not have.