I was listening to a recent podcast on the Korean turtle ships of the 15th and 16th century and the hosts made a point about how one major reason why the ships were so successful was because the 'turtle shell' prevented Japanese marines who were experienced in hand to hand combat from boarding. This struck me as analogous to the situation between the Carthaginians and Romans during the Punic war where the Romans who were inferior seamen used the corvus boarding bridge to easily board and overwhelm Carthaginian crews. Could the Carthaginians have developed ships similar to the Korean turtle ships to combat this Roman tactic ?
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