The+Corvus

The **//Corvus//** The First Punic War was mostly a naval war. Carthage usually would ram other ships to sink them and Rome had to figure out a way to beat this tactic. The Romans came up with a great idea. They built the Corvus. It was a long and wide hinged board with a spike on the end. The Corvus would swing down and smash into the enemy ships to stop them. Then the Roman soldiers would cross this bridge to the Carthaginian ship and fight and destroy them. Carthage lost a lot of ships because of the Corvus.

The Corvus was dangerous and bulky so the Romans eventualy stopped using it as they got more experience in naval attacks.