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They've got like three, they only, they have a fraction of the cavalry.

Now they have allies who have cavalry, but when that cavalry faces Paris cavalry and Hannibal's cavalry, they don't do well.

Romans don't get good cavalry until later.

By contrast, Alexander and like Chaeronea, Issus, Gagamella, and Granicus, it's four lightning strikes into the weak spot from a gap that he has pulled.

And that's how he wins the battles with his, we call it heavy cavalry, but it's not really heavy cavalry compared to the heavy cavalry that comes later.

So I think in terms of cavalry, we have to give the advantage again to Alexander.

Armor.

We have the first armor in history.

Alexander's going to be, he uses elephants really fast.

So he's going to be using elephants probably if he comes and attacks Rome.

This is what Pyrrhus does.

We know how that turns out.

Two battles, the Romans are like, oh my gosh, they don't know what to do.

They try all sorts of things with elephants.

They try these like flaming wagons, which don't work.

And in the end, the last battle, they kind of figure out light infantry throwing javelins at elephants' faces.

The elephants don't do well.

But I think we're going to have to give the advantage there as well.

Okay, now infantry.

And this is where Livy focuses.