Alexander: "Will I ever be as chill as Diogenes?"
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Diogenes: "No, you're blocking my sun"
Why the fuck is Churchill there
I demand the artist answer for their crimes against bloody military conqueror tier lists
Then there's Genghis Khan, who's probably the only one to max "Fuck Around" and never ending up "Finding Out".
He was friend maxing.
If by friend you mean rape-baby
It's the best strat of all.
No Cyrus?
I heard she's a real wrecking ball.
Oh yeah!
Not really relevant, but: it's kind of weird that the three main generals of the Battle of Waterloo (Napoleon, Wellington, and Blücher) all had a type of shoe/boot named after them. But only Napoleon and Wellington had a pastry named after them.
Blücher had a Frau named after him
Nah. Alex was like “will I ever be as good as Porus?”
And then he was.
He sure had a talent for warfare. He wasn't necessarily as much of a strategic genius as Napoleon (AFAIK Alexander's father or one of his underlings invented and implementend the system of warfare that Alexander was using, and the system itself was mostly fairly straightforward), but how many rulers were part of the vanguard of their forces with this much success?
He was pretty great.
No credit to Aristotle?!