Steele Brand

Logistics, Alexander's got the advantage.

His father had done a brilliant job.

The Romans aren't going to have that excellence in logistical modifications until we get to a couple of centuries down the road.

where you're getting rid of your camp followers, you're getting rid of carts and oxen, and you're reducing it to two weeks packs.

Romans can be quick in a pinch, but the logistic system of the Macedonians favors the Macedonians.

Terrain, on the other hand, is going to favor the Romans because this is their home turf and they know how to fight in both the plains and the mountains.

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But what really matters is the bigger strategy.

So we've got tactics, we've got operations, strategic concerns.

And this is where I think we have to look at the Roman Federation and we have to look at the Roman Republic.

And they're both the regime of the Federation and the Republican regime itself.

These are going to be superior.

They're going to be more resilient.

The best that Macedon can hope for in terms of the Roman Federation.

As they arrive and they peel off some of the Samnites or the Samnites, they're going to get some of the Greek cities to the south.

They're probably not going to get the northern Italics.

They're not going to win over the Etruscans.

They will certainly not win over the Latins, and they're definitely not going to win over the Carthaginians, which have had like hundreds of years of treaties.

Carthage does not want to see any more Greeks or Macedonians over there.

So most of the allies are going to stick with Rome, and this is how it always ends up happening throughout Roman history.