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His name was Neil Leckert of the War and Conquest Podcast.

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Episode 100, a Sicilian stalemate.

With the departure of Alsabieties, although Nikius and Lamachus still held joint command,

for all intents and purposes, Nikius caught all of the shots now.

Lamachus may have been the better tactician,

but Nicias was the older, richer, and more illustrious general.

Still, he knew that he couldn't just implement his purely passive strategy and that he would

need to tweak it somewhat in order to satisfy his troops and the Athenians back

home. And so Nicki has said about implementing a newer plan which essentially was a blending of his and Alsabitis' strategy.

First, he wanted to see what could be done about the situation that originally brought the Athenians to Sicily,

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