Tristan Hughes

We'll learn from later on that many of the soldiers have taken local women as their companions.

They've got children.

They're building up because they've been away from so long.

They've been cut off for so long.

But clearly, a lot of them still think of themselves as Macedonian.

that's still home, that they think of this as, well, we go to war, okay, it's bigger scale than Philip's stuff, but basically it's the same idea.

We go off, we win victories, we get loot, we get glory, then we go home to enjoy those things.

But you're not going home.

And the fighting continues.

And you've already won more spectacular victories than anyone's ever heard of.

And yet it's still not enough.

And now you're fighting as well, smaller scale, but as brutal, if not more so.

People are dying.

You have this defeat that's embarrassing, that's costly.

And it doesn't seem to get you anywhere.

You take one of these places and the one across the other side of the valley now rebels against you, or the one in the next valley over.

And people keep raining.

You can't

Relax.

You can't see any path that's clear and simple because there's no one leader.