Re: Pompey vs. Ceaser
This battle was another good choice Exsub! This whole story is great, with Carrhae and Crassus included.
Do you really think that Caesar's force was inferior?
His troops were just too battle hard, and they were totally dependent on Caesar and Caesar alone. They had just shattered Sextus's army, in such a convincing fashion it must have scared the pants off the green force of virgin soldiers waiting for Caesar in Macedonia. But then at the time Pompey was still considered Rome's greatest general by the people. But years of grinding warfare have a measured effect on soldiers, some of those men had been fighting since the first Gallic war.
Which do you consider to be the most dangerous spot for Rome's transition to a Julio-claudian empire Pharsalus or Actium?
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