and also carthage seemed to have no institutional army, unlike the romans, who had something resembling an institution that was able to absorb enormous losses and, after a lot of ridiculous behavior, learn new things. carthage had hannibal, which has no contingency.
and yeah, they disrupted one land war by crossing the sea and starting other land wars.
That wasn’t entirely land based though and carthage didn’t have a native standing army.
and also carthage seemed to have no institutional army, unlike the romans, who had something resembling an institution that was able to absorb enormous losses and, after a lot of ridiculous behavior, learn new things. carthage had hannibal, which has no contingency.
and yeah, they disrupted one land war by crossing the sea and starting other land wars.