Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast.

With me tonight are Lindsay Powell, Mike Cole, Mark McCaffrey, Maritame and Mark DeSantis.

And my name is Jasper Ortiz.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And today we're discussing the latest issue of the magazine.

Issue 173 or in Real Money, that's 97th issue of Entryorfer Magazine.

Enemies of Rome, which is quite possibly the broadest topic we have ever covered

because we were just discussing before we started

if there were any limits and I said no it's just just anyone pretty much that includes Rome itself

of course so we may not get around to mentioning every single enemy Rome has ever had, unless we're just

listing them right now for the next 40 minutes, which would probably not make the most interesting

podcast. We have one question from Patreon. Brian asks, do Romans feel more threatened by

organized border states than by tribal groups? The Dacia, Persia, Kushite, and Armenia are examples of organized nations who Romans try to

subjugate with mixed results.

Well, that's, I mean, that probably is enough for us to go off for the next couple hours,

especially the first part, which would require us to define what the state is in the ancient world and a tribal group.

But I think there might be opinions about this particular question in this group.

Who wants to take care of it?

Mike is shaking his head very emphatically.

So Mike, Murray, always has an opinion.

He doesn't have to be a vote.

No, I was going to start

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