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>If this army was made up of indestructible super soldiers would they have taken over everything?

I wonder

>>2490249
It's an old question, there's probably heaps of actually good insight into it.

My pleb opinion: I think India would have exhausted the army in the end because they employed different tactics or tactics to different degrees (ie far more elephants). Alexander's army was sort of designed in 3 generations to be effective against Greek or Persian armies and it would need another generation to adapt to Indians, by which point the Indians would have been given their own chance to adapt and Alexander would probably be dead.

Secondly, his empire would have fallen apart. He wasn't administering it, he was losing touch with reality and he probably got poisoned so treachery was rife.

>>2490884
counter to the first point:

Alexander was extremely good at adapting his army to new terrain and challenges, and was always updating it and incorporating new peoples and fighting styles into his army. I think too many people give credit to Philip for forming the army and then simply assume that Alexander did nothing to further develop it.

Second point is what probably would have been his undoing. While Alexander was making greater use of oriental (especially Indian) troops during his Indian conquests, he still relied heavily on the arrival of the new macedonian recruits raised annually. It was simply getting harder and harder for his resources in Macedon (which was still very much his power base outside of the army itself) to reach and reinforce him. The fact that after returning to Babylon Alexander had to "replace" many of the Satraps that were administering the Empire demonstrates just how precarious his supply lines where. Having said all that, it's like the Nanda Empire was some shiny, well oiled machine at that point. It was even more decrepit than the Persian empire

what was Stalin's IQ?

>>2487444
250.

Bogdanoffs bow to Stalin

Mao please go

It hurts you deep down inside if you really cared for your spouse.

Reminder that there is literally nothing wrong with freebasing cocaine as long as your partner doesn't find out about it.

Everything is 'ethical' so long as it doesn't harm others, and habitual cocaine use hurts nobody as long as you are not caught.

there's literally nothing wrong with men having multiple partners

there's literally everything wrong with women having multiple partners. their vaginas turn into mashed potatoes. they give birth to children and force another man to take care of another person's child. their bodies are ruined by giving birth to multiple children, being plowed and inseminated by multiple men.

>strong male coalitions
We used to be like this.

>>2478638
AMIRITE?

We are men, not beasts.

get well soon.

Holocaust was a lie

hilarious joke xdddddd

GO AWAY, MORON.

>>2493931
GET A LIFE, KEK.

it's a self-solving issue. women who behave in such a manner often refuse to or struggle to reproduce, and when they do, they produce a child who will be raised to either refuse to or struggle to reproduce. the same can also be said for men on the opposite side(such as myself), who refuse to partake in relationship roles.

advancement in cloning and genetic engineering will eventually render the problem obsolete anyway.

let's face it

it was destined to fail
also crusader hijinx

>gif
>doesn't move
shit thread

COMBO BREAKER

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>>2493779
TO THIS ?

>>2493779
immigration and tolerance

>>2493745

MAO TSE TUNG WAS ALWAYS A VILLAIN.

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>>2493745

diplomacy, google treaty of Utrecht for example

Superior Barbosa tactics

it was easier to just trade somewhere else than to deal with it at the time. it's not as if there was a shortage of societies to exploit.

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>>2493658
Is churchill the living grinch?

Jorah the Vandal

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>snownigs having to make crazy routes through the Mediterranean because they can't invade Italy through the alps

And their only prize in the end was sacking an irrelevant depopulated city which was no longer the capital of the WRE before they vanished.

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>>2493643
OP
hahahah XDXDXD lolz

UK had more a much more advanced chemical arsenal and it was ready to use it. Anthrax and other nasty shit

No, even if The British surrendered the colonies would probably fight on. The war might last into the 50's though with a Soviet victory over most of Europe

>>2493542
Sauce? But that doesn't change the fact that there was some serious biological research happening in Japan + the germans had already deployed mustard gas successfully in WW1

you needed your tribal tattoo or you were fucked

oogin and booging
hemming and hawing

>>2493536
>tribal tattoo
What's this?

Bathory

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he used to be a bank robber