Poor Fabian was damned if he did, damned if he didn't.
He and Scipio are about the only Romans I like in this whole story. I mean, you try to give everybody a fair shake, and I think I was a little too nice to that brute Sempronius by making him realize he got everyone killed and living with that horror, but honestly, Rome's story the entire war was someone from the pragmatic side doing a dirty job and someone from this blood & thunder camp hung around their neck.
...I kinda wish Hannibal had won, but Carthage would have been the same story as Rome once he died. In the long run, progress is the median of its people, and though great men are omnipresent, they're never prevalent.