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Hannibal: Rome and Carthage is a complex wargame that is a digital adaptation of a descriptively titled boardgame, Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in The Second Punic War 219-202 B.C. by Glenn Kidd. Besides a few minor change in game balance and the map art by designer and artist James Warshawsky, the videogame is a straight port of the boardgame. The videogame has an interesting history. The original 1983 boardgame influenced a more complex Avalon Hill's Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage 1996 boardgame by Mark Simontich, while the 2010 videogame port, derives game balancing ideas from Avalon Hill's boardgame.