R.I.P. Men of Ambition

What about Augustus? Or Genghis?

>>910231
Spec'd too hard into Ambition and not enough or dangerously min-maxed in Benevolence, Providence, or Wisdom

>>910231
Constantine

They tend to step on a lot of toes on their way up the ladder.

Doing so generally leads to being stabbed in the back.

>>910239
>What about Augustus? Or Genghis?
Add Cao Cao.

>>910284
What about Sima Yi?

>>910231
Well, people who aren't on the verge of success also get fucked over, it's just that people don't write about them on an individual scale.

Ambitious people can't really look 100% successful if they keep setting goals. They'll look "that close to the next thing" when they fail, because there's always a "next thing."

>>910231
>you could have lived in an eternal french empire of freedom and equality if it wasn't for the eternal anglo