Tristan Hughes

It's very hard to know the scale of losses, but it is clearly a traumatic experience for all of them going through the Gedrosian Desert as they run low on water.

But it gives a new half-wonder.

Is this Alexander punishing them?

Is it just his longing, this whole Pothos thing that you get?

There's this sense of doing something that nobody else has done.

I will succeed where everyone else has failed.

If that fortress is impossible to capture, I will capture it.

So you have this and you have this odd mixture.

There are clearly some mistakes.

You know, at one point they camp in dried up water course, which floods when it rains.

It's fairly obvious stuff you probably should work out, but they don't.

But you have the classic moment as well as they start to lose stragglers.

People are left behind, but they're running short of water.

They have none left.

And somebody finds enough to fill a helmet, brings it to Alexander, presents it to him, and he makes a big display of pouring it out onto the sand.

I mean, you feel he could have perhaps given it to the man who brought it to him.

But nevertheless, the message is, if you're not drinking, I'm not drinking either.

So you get Alexander the...

incredible leader, along with Alexander, the unfocused, what's he doing here?

What's this going on?