Tristan Hughes

Although even at that battle, he loses...

Quite a few of his key troops.

Sorry, I don't want to hammer that hope.

You're quite right.

So thank you for that.

I appreciate that.

Asculum is like, that's the Pyrrhic victory, and then Beneventum is to say the same.

Because you can see that there is that.

The Romans are certainly learning.

So I don't think it's too far-fetched to say that maybe they would have done the same

With Alexander, which kind of brings me to the next point.

With the Romans, you always think they have that grit, they keep being able to raise soldiers, they'll be able to keep coming back.

Shall we talk about that next?

Because this would be something completely alien to Alexander the Great and the Macedonians who would expect, you know, win a couple of battles, they'll surrender, we take over.

But it sounds with the Romans, even at this stage, it would be different.

Well, it seems inevitable then that a war between Alexander the Great and Rome will be a hard, hard slog from a Macedonian point of view.

And as you say, Alexander has to keep living.

He has to also keep being invested in this war and not decide, actually, I need to go elsewhere in my empire because the longer it goes on...

the more likely there will be problems elsewhere emerging that he has to deal with.

But I would posit this to you.