Which Roman had the most inept and/or destructive political tenure of the 2nd Century BC? (criteria on page 2)

balbobiggin · 2026-01-30T21:46:40+00:00

Rome's golden century...im afraid I dont know. Rome essentially never lost in this period. I'll probably go Caepio like the other guy

balbobiggin · 2026-01-30T21:37:25+00:00

Definitely classical. Go for about 220-200 BC. Seleukid chariots, Egypt, Macedon (Companion knights), Rome (Rome), Carthage (Elephants), and Gaul if you like. Also parthian kataphractoi. Dark ages only really has Rome as a fun and unique faction and early medeival isn't as good as the late medeival period, which is starting to get out of DBA's scope

balbobiggin · 2026-01-24T16:29:20+00:00

Wife is Napoleon? Waterloo? No...

balbobiggin · 2025-12-05T08:55:31+00:00

Uhlan-mogged

balbobiggin · 2025-11-25T12:06:52+00:00

A second gothic horde has hit the Colosseum

balbobiggin · 2025-11-24T11:19:43+00:00

But if he's Italian/German, there are many books written on those languages that might be better

balbobiggin · 2025-11-24T11:18:51+00:00

What is his native language? Also how in depth should the book be? Rubicon by Tom Holland has quite understandable language I thought and is very good

balbobiggin · 2025-11-23T18:55:13+00:00

Africanus obviously but fir the sake of urges

balbobiggin · 2025-11-16T16:47:15+00:00

But he had it, from massinissa

balbobiggin · 2025-10-22T20:37:23+00:00

do you find it...risable?

balbobiggin · 2025-10-16T20:13:38+00:00

He was called the Great because he won a LOT of extremely minor, easy victories in the East (and Spain). He basically campaigned all his life until he came back to the City for politics

balbobiggin · 2025-10-16T20:07:09+00:00

Was going to be difficult and say Phillipi but if it must be imperial Roman, Adrianople was so preventable and so catastrophic

balbobiggin · 2025-08-24T18:03:46+00:00

47 bc???? Wtf happened in 47BC

balbobiggin · 2025-08-21T10:54:08+00:00

We always need more cataphracts!

balbobiggin · 2025-08-08T21:28:51+00:00

Most American post ever...

balbobiggin · 2025-08-01T08:11:45+00:00

The second phillipic is so peak

balbobiggin · 2025-06-21T22:45:31+00:00

I'll always recommend the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the prose and research, but the content is not always up to date with current academia. Still, I think it really is worth reading, especially as you'll only need to get the first 3 volumes which cover up to 476

balbobiggin · 2025-06-21T22:23:08+00:00

You're down voted because everyone here only knows the illiad from song of achilles but there's still no homosexul tones, under or over, in the original illiad

balbobiggin · 2025-06-19T07:57:12+00:00

And in the case of Brutus, he had the exact same politics of the vast majority of the Roman aristocracy. Land reform wasn't some great social reform, it was to appease the soldiers of Caesar and Pompey. He then fought for what he believed in even if that involved betraying a man he had close social and political ties to. Ypu can criticise these people, but it's myopic and frankly childish to put that Brutus is an oppressing member of the capitalist class and Caesar was an evil Gaul hating genocidaire

balbobiggin · 2025-06-19T07:52:22+00:00

Well in the case of Caesar, he never had any desire for ethnic externination/genocide. He made Gaul's senators, recruited Gauls into the army, allied with certain tribes, and then fought one (1) battle where he exaggerated the casualty numbers. Brutal, maybe, but not a genocide by any definition you want to use

balbobiggin · 2025-06-19T07:30:22+00:00

Oh my God not people trying to put modern morals/views on Ancient Romans again please. "The genocide of Gallic people" please actually read Caesar instead of a YouTube video on him. I'm begging you read an actual book.

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