They countered Carthaginian tactics of ramming with the Harpax - a ramp with a beak which when dropped in the opposing ship locked the ships together and allowed the superior Roman infantry to board and defeat the Cartaginian crews.
After a series of defeated earlier in Hannibal's invasion of Italy, Rome avoided direct battles and relied on harrassment to contai the Carthaginian force.
Thy then woke up to the obvious counterstroke by mirroring Hannibal's takung the war to Rome and alienating its Italian allies. They invaded North Africa, mobilised the North African kings and threatened Carthage.
Hannibal was recalled from Italy to protect Carthage.
First Punic War - Carthage attempted to use its naval dominance, Rome built a comparable navy and developed boarding tactics which outplayed the Carthaginian ramming tactics.
Second Punic War - Carthage carried the threat to Rome, invading Italy and gathering Italian allies. Rome countered by invading North Africa, threatening Carthage and causing them to withdraw from Italy, and finally defeating them in front of Carthage itself.
Third Punic War - Carthage, without allies, had to defend the city, while Rome used allies to harass Carthage, and finally besieged and took the city.
Then Rome imposed the 'final solution', selling the Carthaginians into slavery to prevent any resurgence, and established a colony for its retired military veterans on the site.
Rome was fighting Carthage.
Superior reources, strategy and tactics plus staying power to outlast and overcome Carthage's initial strength.
No - he was an escaped slave who led a slave revolt against Rome.
The last king of Rome was expelled in the late 6th Century BCE. The Punic Wars were in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BCE, when Rome was a republic.
The Romans battled the Carthoginians in the Punic Wars. There were three, all of which Rome won.
Sicily
During the Punic Wars, ancient Rome was still a "republic". With that noted, its expansion by the end of the first Punic War began the creation of its "empire". Based on the Roman victory over Carthage, Sicily became the Roman republic's first province.
Rome was fighting Carthage.
Atilius M. Regulus was a Roman Consul in the First Punic War. He led an invasion of North Africa and was defeated and captured. This element of the First Punic War led Romans to be wary of invading North Africa in the Second Punic War.
Gaius Lutatius Catulus .
Superior reources, strategy and tactics plus staying power to outlast and overcome Carthage's initial strength.
The most prominent was Scipio Africanus.
Scipio Africanus.
There was no Roman Hannibal. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who invaded Italy by crossing the Alps during the second Punic War.
The Roman republic on all three of the Punic Wars.
Hannibal Barca.
As a Roman army commander during the Second Punic War. He finally led the army which invaded North Africa and defeated the Carthaginians at the final deciding battle of Zama.