The Parthians dealt a bitter blow to the military elite of Carthage. Now Hannibal II will lead a punitive expedition across the Danube and, after an epic trek, will assail the wild bowmen from the east. This time the longbow will not be outclassed.It is 149 AD, and this time Carthage is fighting for revenge.

To stop the raids on their northern frontiers, a punitive fleet is sent north to punish the remaining Viking tribes. Off the cape of Jutland, the Carthaginian galleys finally find the Norse long ship is a formidable craft. Attacking through the snows of Southern Finland, the Army also encounters Norse berserkers for the first time.It is 345AD, and Carthage is sent reeling in defeat.

With the Roman fleet at the bottom of the Mediterranean and Hannibal's mercenary army marauding down the east coast of Italy, Rome is up against it. When the entire Roman army is butchered at the battle of Cannae and Hannibal's brother lands another army in the Bay of Naples, Rome is given a choice. Surrender or be sacked.It is 216 BC and the last challenger against Carthage's reign is on her knees.

Carthage has a trick nobody else has realized. Their ships are mass-produced. English oak is stronger than any timber available in the Mediterranean. Could this be turned to Carthage's advantage? Would an oak fleet rule the True Sea? Can Carthaginian engineering help his allies to achieve peace with the neighboring tribes? Will the Mai Dan cow their rivalry? Can he convince them that trade with Carthage is better than war with Carthage and her allies? Its 460BC. England is changing. Cartha...

The tribes of Gaul have been a thorn in the side of Carthage for far too long. Penned in by Carthaginian-occupied Spain to the West, Britain to the North, Italy to the East, and the even wilder tribes in across the Rhine, the Gauls must finally fight or die. During one battle, a slave of Roman descent saves a Carthaginian force from certain defeat and annihilation. Given his freedom, he elects to join the meritocratic officer corps of the army of his erstwhile masters. It is 56 BC, and his...

When two mighty empires meet, history dictates that only one will stand and the other must fall. Persia covers more land area than all of Carthage's territory. Carthage controls the Mediterranean and its wealth from shore to distant shore. As the two empires confront each other in a hundred little skirmishes, one will survive and one will fall. It is 330BC and if Persia falls only one small emerging state will stand in the way of Carthaginian suzerainty.Rome looms on the horizon for...

Forty years earlier the Vikings sent a fleet of Carthaginian galleys to the bottom of the North Sea, and left the bones of a Carthaginian army to whiten in the snows of Finland. It may have taken forty years but now it is time for Carthage to have its revenge. The last European tribes to challenge Carthage will now find out what that ancient challenge really costs.It is 389AD, and Carthage has its revenge.

Nine years ago, Hansro led his punitive expeditions against the tribes west of the Rhine. Now the Emperor is on the scene, and his huge army is intent on crushing the Goths once and for all. As the campaign starts, Hamilcar III is surprised and ambushed in the Tutenberg forest. Instead of plunging his forces into despair as the Gauls had wanted, his death finally galvanizes the Carthaginian armies into brutal action. For many generations that followed, their treatment of the Goths would co...

There is an important secret to the way the Carthaginians build their galleys. Each is identical to all of the others. They are built to a standard design, and each piece is marked. You can take one apart and use it as a set of templates to build more. One unlucky Carthaginian captain is forced aground by the Romans, and he and his crew and his galley are captured. Rome uses his galley to build a fleet of 225 identical ships in less than 45 days and use this to challenge Carthaginian naval...

Pushing north, the Carthaginian forces have conquered Denmark. The Angles, the Saxons, and the Franks have been overrun. The galleys of the Carthaginian fleet control the seas from Spain to Denmark. Protected in this way, the British reap the benefits of the peace the rest of the empire has enjoyed.It is 332 AD, and finally, the northern empire can catch its breath.

Phillip would be king of Macedonia if the Carthaginians hadn't arrived. Now he must lead a last desperate rebellion against the overlords from across the sea. Is it still his destiny to rule, or has Carthage the wit and might to destroy the dynasty before Alexander is even born? It is 359 BC, and the nexus of history is upon them.

All of Europe west of the river Rhine lies under the hand of Carthage. Ruled jointly from the south, Carthage itself, and north, Mai Dan in Britain, the empire appears to be at peace. There are three firebrands within the empire, two of whom are looking for further conquests to cement their place and perhaps their children's future within the society that has assimilated them. It is 48 BC can Hanno, a descendant of his legendary namesake, keep a leash on the ambitions of a certain Julius C...