The development team at The Creative Assembly has also carefully crafted the secondary objectives and missions in order to guide players to follow the real-world Second Punic War, with Hannibal in a good position to make his move across the Alps and the Romans compelled to take Sicily and invade North Africa. This creates an interesting set of problems early on, mostly because of the way regional allies and smaller factions need to be dealt with before Rome and Carthage can face each other directly. When starting Hannibal at the Gates, most players will be impressed by how developed the two main factions are, with dozens of cities under their control and some solid armies already present on the map. The map focuses on the Italian peninsula, the North of Africa and the Iberian peninsula, alongside the big expanse of water between them, and that means more cities to develop, larger distances for armies to cover and more attention paid to the influence that geography had on the war. The all-new Hannibal at the Gates campaign for Total War: Rome II is designed specifically to simulate this engagement in detail, offering players a chance to control both the two superpowers of the moment and three smaller factions that can play a larger role in the conflict.
The Second Punic War was one of the most important conflicts in the Ancient World because it basically decided whether the Mediterranean would be dominated by Rome or by Carthaginians, with implications for the rest of history as we know it.
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