Hello and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers.

I think this is episode 145.

It goes so quickly.

We're up to a gross now, Marie.

I am, I am Jasper.

Well, actually, a gross plus one, of course.

I am Jasper Ortiz, the editor of Ancient Warfare.

And with me is Marie Daum, the assistant governor.

And we do all these answering these questions

for our patrons and for everybody else

but we really like it if you would like to become a patron

and possibly get the magazine

but you can certainly pose questions if you're not a patron.

We like them all.

We are always interested to see what you can come up with and what we can manage to answer

or waffle about like I'm doing right now.

Apologies.

One of the questions that we have is were Philip and Alexander Macedon uniquely qualified in what they did?

Marie, can you answer that for me?

Well, short answer is yes and no.

They were both remarkable commanders and they used their forces in efficient and incredibly

successful ways. But at the same time, no, because the circumstances under which they operated were

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