Wandering Adventure Party

@atomicpoet "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as BlueSky, is in fact, GATProto/BlueSky or as I've recently taken to calling it, ATProto plus BlueSky. BlueSky is not a social media platform unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning ATProto network made useful by the ATProto specification and AppView, defining a full social media platform based on the AppView."

@atomicpoet
So if they fight in Europe or West Asia and Cao wins, Caesar comes back with another army and keeps doing so until Cao is dead.

In central or east Asia, Caesar is cut off from Rome, allowing Cao to mop his legions up.

But you know what would be an interesting matchup? Julius Caesar vs Genghis Khan.
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@atomicpoet
Hannibal's experience indicates Caesar would probably beat Cao on mountain passes.

In any case, even if Cao wins the battle, his victory is likely to be pryrrhic. Leaning *heavily* on @bretdevereaux blog, the Roman army was built to wear down their enemies by attrition, and they inflicted heavy casualties even when losing the battle; indeed, Pyrrhus was compared positively to Alexander by his contemporaries, but his campaign in Italy is why such victories are called pyrrhic.

@atomicpoet

If you mean a one-on-one duel with standard equipment, probably Caesar. Roman shields are quite good at negating the advantages of spears, letting the Romans get up close and personal where swords are effective.

If you mean whose army would win, Caesar wins in Italy and Cao wins in China, because of logistics.

If they fight at the midpoint, Cao wins because China often had good relations with Iran, while Rome never did. Hence China gets easier logistics.

@stux Sounds like people taking J. Stephanie Sterling too far. Some years ago, they coined the term "asset flip" for a "game" made by buying a pre-made level and selling it as-is as a new game, rather than building something on it. The Internet being what it is, a whole lot of people started using it for any game that had any store-bought models, textures, or sounds, or even when devs reüse stuff they made themselves for other projects.