Hannibal VS Zombies[]
Who Is Deadliest?[]
Stats[]
Hannibal
Hannibal:
5 feet 7
155 lbs
Diet: Legumes, veggies, well balanced diet (similar to marathon runner's)
Tactics: Cannae Pincer move
Weapons:
| Short range | Dagger |
|---|---|
| Mid range | Falcata sword, Sarissa |
| Long range | Soliferum (range 30 meters) |
| Special | Carthaginian War Elephant, Musculata armor, helmet, shield |
Zombies:
5 feet 9.4 in, 196 lbs (Male)
5 feet 3.8 in, 160 lbs (Female)
Note: to make this as good a match as possible, I went with the average size of women and men in the US, possibly the heaviest people on average in the world (though not the tallest)
Diet: human flesh
Tactics: swarm attack
Weapons:
| Short range | Bite |
|---|---|
| Mid range | grasping hands |
| Long range | Zombie Moan (coordinating tool for the Zombies, psychological weapon) |
| Special | Unque biology (3 times stronger than normal human, 255 psi bite force, no pain, can only be killed by blow to the brain, does not tire), Zombie virus |
The Armies[]
Hannibal:
5 War elephants, each with three riders (one Mahout, two Soliferum throwers), Hannibal will be an extra edition to one of the Elephant crews)
25 ground troops
10 Cavalry
Zombie Horde:
2000 Ghouls
Battle[]
forty miles from Carthage, Hannibal rides on a war elephant. Having four other elephants with him, ten cavalry and 25 ground troops behind, he sees and hears no reason to fear, until he rides past a meek forest, and witnesses 2000 moaning zombies. 1999 of them surround and move around 1, a female dressed on odd clothing and holding up a microphone with a severed cord dangling below it.
Hannibal sees the individual zombie wearing a bloodstained belt, with writing in a tongue he could not identify:
KATY PERRY
As his force leaves the covering of the trees the female Zombie points to the Carthaginians and moans, in a voice so lovely and haunting it made Hannibal think of the sirens of Odysseus. The Zombie horde turns around, and together they moan and walk towards the force. Hannibal asseses the situation and commands a charge.
Immediately 5 war elephants charge towards the Zombies. With a signal from Hannibal his cavalry mass on the elephant's flanks and charge out, readying their soliferums. The infantry walks forwards in a tight Phalanx formation. Within a matter of moments, the elephants and Zombies collide:
Immediately zombies are tossed high into the air, crushed under elephant foot or by flicks of elephant trunk, or impaled by elephant tusks. Soliferums rain down from the elephants, and though zombies not wounded in the head survive, 400 of them are either killed or crippled by the time the elephant breach the back of the zombie horde.
The cavalry, at the same time, lets loose a barrage of soliferums, and then the cavalry captains order a charge into the fray, spears and swords ready. Not noticing yet the fact that the zombies are immune to all but a head shot, they do not last long within the horde. Horses panic, men are pulled down, and the zombies add to their numbers.
The Infantry then engage the Zombies. At first the troops are spooked when the zombies survive being rammed through with Sarissa or the Cavalry and Elephant rider's soliferums, but when their captain notices that they are felled by headshot or crippled by decapitation, he orders his men to forgo the sarissas and strike out with their Falcatas, telling them to hit the heads.Though the zombie numbers are great, the Carthaginians manage to hack their way into the undead horde.
After getting the elephants to turn around, Hannibal orders another elephant charge. Although now without soliferums, the elephants crush many more Zombies underfoot as they blow through, finally piercing the front of the Zombie horde like ancient cruise missiles.
It is then that the infantry begins to collapse. the gore being flung by the falcata strikes are laced with Zombie virus, and most of the soldiers are now covered. Soon several fall dead, only to revive and join in the Zombie attack. the Phalanx collapses, every man fights for himself, and before the third charge of Hannibal's is finished all the infantry are mindless walking dead!
Hannibal prepares a fourth charge. He intends now to head towards the odd female zombie, the one with the odd belt writing. He hadn't decided yet as to whether it was the devil or an angel, but either way he was going to destroy it, this abomination that somehow gave him a "Hummingbird Heartbeat"! After the charge he planned to enter Carthage and amass a force to exterminate this hellish brood. He ordered the charge.
Hundreds more Zombies fall as the elephants draw near. Just before Hannibal's elephant reaches the mysterious undead woman, however, she sings a wordless harmony, a mighty octave which stops the Carthaginian war elephants. The Elephants turn their heads in puppy-like fashion, and even the mahouts are somewhat enchanted.
Before Hannibal can order the slaying of his elephants, the Pachyderms rear up and fall backwards, killing almost all who where upon them. Those that survived where either crushed by the elephants or eaten by the zombies. Hannibal is a red smear.
Hannibal's elephant lifts the woman zombie onto its shoulders, and as the elephants return to their home city of Carthage, the singing Zombie draws the curious, and doomed outside the city, where they will be met by the last 200 zombies, who follow the elephants!
WINNER: ZOMBIES![]
Expert's opinion: Due to the number of the Zombies, their hard-to-kill natures, the ignorance of Hannibal and his men in fighting such beings (and with the aide of Katy Perry), it was decided that even war elephants would not be enough to overcome the power of the Horde, which could have made the elephants spook an panic (or in this case, rebel!)!
BTW: Lasmoore figured out my riddle on the chat as to who the mystery zombie would be (Katy Perry), so hats off to him!