The final story of the Battle of Insubria (as scribed by Richardius Josephus):
" The Romans valiantly fought against the Carthaginian invaders, but were defeated on the final turn of the game. The Carthaginian wing under Hasdrubel, who had failed every command roll for the entire game, was able to deliver the crushing blow to the Roman's Triarii. In their haste and blood fury to destroy Hannibals' remaining elephant units, the Triarii uncharacteristically found themselves out ahead of the remainder of the legionary lines. Hasdrubel was able to initiative charge a full brigade into the Triarii, destroying them. Thus effectively ending the contest.

The Romans and Carthaginians fought lustily, their weapons drinking deep of the blood of their adversaries. The center of the battlefield saw wave after wave of Roman legions and Carthaginian troops clashing to the death. The battle surged back and forth, neither side could predict the outcome.

The Carthaginians had destroyed 6 Roman core units before Rome finally waded through enough skirmishers to reach the Carthaginia main line. Aided by 3 successive command rolls, the Roman brigade on the far left was able to aid the Triarii in a devastating attack against the first core unit that fell in the battle. For a short while after that, the Romans gained the advantage, even to the point of a light cavalry unit routing an elephant unit in a head-to-head battle!

Alas, good generalship amongst terribly failed command rolls ruled the day for Hannibal. The gods of the fortunes of war soon revealed to the dejected Carthaganian leader that all was not lost; the Romans were too spread out and thin and vulnerable for the killing counter-attack. The final blow, the aggressive counter-charge ended the Roman hopes for victory.
Rome now limps back towards home, cursing the senate and the leaders who caused them to plunder their advantage; praying to the gods that fortune and providence will protect their hasty retreat."

Rome began the battle with 1645 total points to Carthage's 1400.
Roger was a great opponent and we had a blast! The final score of 14-7 in Carthage's favor (in terms of core units) does not accurately describe how close the game really was. Neither does the final total score of 655 Carthage dead to 930 Roman dead. It really could have gone either way.
Carthage did lose their elephants, however... that is the 1 point of solace that the Roman consuls can flaunt. Other than that, another rousing victory for Carthage!