Steele Brand

I think that's the story we see up until that point in time with the adventurers who are overlapping with Alexander and what happens with Pyrrhus.

I think many of the Italians, if not all, maybe not three, maybe not Regium, but we don't really know.

They're going to go with the Hellenistic adventurer.

They don't have capable armies themselves.

They're beset by the Italic tribes.

But there's always been this, the Greeks in the south have always been opposed by the Oscans who are moving down into the plains.

I don't see them capitulating to Alexander.

I mean, Alexander's going to have to go and fight into the mountains.

Now, how well is he going to do?

It's going to be hard.

It's going to be the same trouble that the Roman Empire later had with the Germans.

No big settlements.

What city do you attack?

There are very few of them.

They're hard to wrestle with.

They fight guerrilla style.

They have like a large ovular shield, and then they throw javelins.

The battles that they fight usually last in the hours.

A phalanx battle is, I mean, gosh, an hour-long phalanx battle is a really long phalanx battle.

Why?