Ad Astra - Scipio and Hannibal - Vol. 8 Ch. 50 - Infiltration Strategy
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What are the odds that the guy at the end is also a Roman agent? The waters there are supposedly infested with sharks and he was wounded. Plus the ship must have been quite a distance from Syracuse when it was attacked since they couldn't possibly run the Roman blockade with one ship.
What are the odds that a man could escape the Roman marines, swim a long distance through shark infested waters while wounded, in the right direction towards Sicily and actually walk to the gates of Syracuse?
What are the odds that a man could escape the Roman marines, swim a long distance through shark infested waters while wounded, in the right direction towards Sicily and actually walk to the gates of Syracuse?
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@norctune Your reasoning is persuasive. It'd be a risky strategy though. Sure, you've got two guys inside instead of one, and the new one very trusted. But there's a big chance they'd manage to grab the first guy and either kill or torture him before the new one could figure a way to free him. So unless you had some clever stratagem that would really work a lot better with two, like opening some unwieldy gate or . . . Yeah, lots of possibilties here.
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@norctune
I think you are making a small confusion
the chapter where we saw carthaginian agents being captured and one of them killed by sharks took place in the Adriatic sea, while they were on their way to Macedonia from Tarente.
though, it's true there would be sharks off the coast of Sicily, but much farther away where depths are bigger.
we shall see whether it's genuine or a stratagem, but it's entirely possible for one to escape the attack on their ship by swimming away or drifting on some flotsam (anyone remember that scene from Ben Hur ?
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I think you are making a small confusion
the chapter where we saw carthaginian agents being captured and one of them killed by sharks took place in the Adriatic sea, while they were on their way to Macedonia from Tarente.
though, it's true there would be sharks off the coast of Sicily, but much farther away where depths are bigger.
we shall see whether it's genuine or a stratagem, but it's entirely possible for one to escape the attack on their ship by swimming away or drifting on some flotsam (anyone remember that scene from Ben Hur ?
).
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Damn, Archimedes is PARTYING.
