>"Historians" and Tradlarpers decide to circlejerk you 2300 years after you die>Military pseuds act like you are the greatest tactician that ever lived>Plebs fall for your mythology and think you're an unstoppable god>Reality.exe loads>Won both major battles that destroyed Persia because of the generals and army your dad built for you>You recklessly bumrushed Darius twice and luckily he pussied out>Becomes ruler of the civilized world>Still isn't enough>Goes to jeetland>Soldiers get pissed so you make them march back through Talibanstan killing tons of them>You get blackout drunk and chuck a spear at another of your soldiers>Soldiers poison you>Game over>Historians say "WE DUN HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HE DIED???, BUT HE'S DA BEST OKAY?">Tradlarpers say "OMG MOM COME CHECK OUT MY HECKIN BASED MEME, I WISH I WAS ALEXANDER IM SUCH A GIGACHAD"Filtered.
All the general worship is retarded anyway. Real life isn't a Total War game. Generals weren't cunningly maneuvering units around a battlefield, winning through their superior tactical insight. Most battles were won by whoever showed up with more guys that were better equipped and supplied.
>>18427678That explains why Napoleon was defeated so easily. And why the Wehrmacht got stuck in France 1940, suffering hundreds of tousands of casualties.
>>18427665>>Won both major battles that destroyed Persia because of the generals and army your dad built for youHe still drew up the battle plans so he gets the credit, same of he had lost. Also building up an army from scratch is the exception, not the rule. Almost Everyone in history had their armies and army staff from previous rulers handed down to them.>You recklessly bumrushed Darius twice and luckily he pussied outThat's the tactic of the Macedonian army, hammer and anvil as they call it. Trying to turn the fight into a knock out slog is a bad idea and is what probably screwed over the Hellenistic kings fighting Rome. Also give Darius credit, if he had stood his ground there's a good chance he could have died, which would have caused the empire to imploded right there and then. Fleeing bought him time. Concidering Alexander still spent years mopping up rouge Persian forces after his death, Darius might have been able to summon 1 more army of he wasn't betrayed.>Becomes ruler of the civilized world>Still isn't enough>Goes to jeetland>Soldiers get pissed so you make them march back through Talibanstan killing tons of themYeah that was a mistake >You get blackout drunk and chuck a spear at another of your soldiers>Soldiers poison you>Game over>Historians say "WE DUN HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HE DIED???, BUT HE'S DA BEST OKAY?"We really don't know. Problem with the "soldier poisoned him" theory is that it's probably propaganda to make the Antipatrid, mainly Cassander, look worse after killing Alexander's family. A lot of the symptoms Alexander had may have been disease>>18427678>Most battles were won by whoever showed up with more guys that were better equipped and supplied.Guerilla warfare would like a word with you. But You are right, the reason generals get so much praise is because that's literally what sources we have, Annales school is recent. Also it sells the best. You say Real life isn't a Total War game, but majority of people don't care.
He was a gigachad. The Diadochi were like this storm of gigachads having some of the western developments of the Roman aristocracy while being by far the best militarily of SE Europe. That Phillip set him up for success is in part why he was great, sure. But it doesn't detract from the man. >"Phillip is a great general, but Alexander is simply great"
>>18427665Trvthnuke
>>18427665Bioleninist trash detected, opinion summarily rejected
Someone has their panties in a bunch it seems...
>>18427705>diadochWhat's the right suffix to use here?Also I will never stop being obsessed with the basileiou baktrianes
>>18427665Alexander worship is only about 40 years younger than Alexander.
>>18427665WRONG. TRUTH NUKE INBOUND. Had Alexander the GREAT (PBUH) not been betrayed and poisoned by his lessers, he would've finished forming his GRECO-PERSIAN-ARABIAN-INDIAN-CHINESE EMPIRE and humanity would've been in space by 300 AA (AFTER ALEXANDER). Imagine the smirk Alexander would have when he hears of the Americas, he would have thought the gods themselves had formed this new world for him alone...
>>18427844Diadochi is plural and means the Succesors. If it were to refer to one successor it would be Diadochus.
>>18428005>*-iIs that a real Greek plural or is it a Latinism?
>>18428021Probably the latter. Since Cicero most things Greek tended to pass through a Latin filter into other tongues further west/north. But I can like, barely say the alphabet and read fragments of Greek at present. So consider the source (a retard).
>>18427665>>Won both major battles that destroyed Persia because of the generals and army your dad built for youDarius himself was a competent commander and fought Alexander in the field multiple times with far greater resources than him. Philip was dead, he left Alexander a kingdom on the verge of bankruptcy and Alexander managed to conquer, it wasn't Philip's ghost who was commanding these battles, making strategy or fighting the war. It was Alexander.>You recklessly bumrushed Darius twice and luckily he pussied outPretending like it didn't take 6 years of constant campaigning award. Not to mention if not for Alexanders skill it would have taken well over a decade>Soldiers poison youNo evidence of that. More than likely he died of physical exhaustion. A soldier today taking one major injury would be out of action for life and have to change their lifestyle around it. Alexander took three crippling injuries and just managed to survive a deadly disease. He wasn't going to live past 40.
