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And here's the other big problem.

We should probably get to this soon is they're also never going to run out of infantrymen.

It's just not going to happen.

He doesn't go into enough detail with the infantry, but he gives us enough detail and his readers would have known what they're talking about.

Because the army that he's describing...

in the first century, had just come into being when he's talking about Alexander, which is why this is a really good point for him to do the Alexander digression, because that's just when those military reforms have happened.

So as I pointed out, I think in terms of regime design and in terms of the

Commanders and commanders working together, I think Rome is the advantage.

In terms of tactics, at best, for Rome, it's a mixed bag.

I really think in the end, that's probably not the best case.

So let's just look at siegecraft, for example.

Siegecraft, which Livy doesn't talk about that much.

Romans have a few examples that kind of finish the siege of Veii, but it takes a long time.

They besiege some small towns.

Samnite cities, but I mean, Alexander, the Siege of Pelium, Miletus, Halicarnassus, Tyre, the building of two moles out to, I mean, nothing like that had ever been done.

The Sogdian Rock, the Rock of Corianas, there's no question, when it comes to siege craft.

The Macedonians have the advantage.

Okay.

Cavalry.

Romans famously have horrible cavalry.