Hi everyone. Welcome to a new episode of ancient warfare answers. As you can see, I'm on my own,

so it's really Murray's ancient warfare answers. Another 10-minute fix of your ancient warfare

burning questions to fill your week for ancient warfare. Of course, we can answer questions from

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Now, the first question we have is we are told right before the great Illyrian revolt of

AD 6 to 9 that the Romans were preparing a campaign against King Maribudus.

Don't, the person didn't feel like looking up the spelling, I did, and then hashed the

pronunciation.

And the Marco Mani, it is said he had an army of 74,000, 70,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry.

What do we think the outcome would have been of that war campaign and would

he have stood a chance resisting a Roman campaign?

That's from Chris.

Thank you, Chris.

Well, the interesting thing there, of course, is that at that point in time, you've got just

before the Cheruski fight and destroy three legions in the Tudorborg forest.

And what you've got is, of course, a whole set of evidence that we have of Germanic tribes fighting amongst themselves and fighting one another.

And so, you know, soon they're

going to turn on one another and fight each other, the Markomania and the Cheruski and the other

tribes. So the best bet we've got of looking at that as a campaign that could have happened

is that when Marcus Aurelius is fighting the Germanic wars during the

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