User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Sun Tsu vs Alexander the Great/@comment-77.170.75.133-20130201035337

Sun Tsu is so overrated in comparison to Alexander the Great -.-

Lets 1st of all assume that Sun Tsu was a real person not just a fictive legend (like dragons)

And second if one person mastered Sun Tsu's Art of War there are just few people to come to mind and 2 of them are Imperator Augustus his general Agrippa and Alexander the great

Third Alexander had a natural feeling of warfare, he grasped each situation he found himself in almost impulsive, he wasnt only a conqueror he was/ is the greatest commander in history, never losing a battle or a war in millitairy means

At nr 4 Sun Tsu would use diplomacy against Alexander the great and they would propably  come to good terms and become client kingdoms or form an alliance, since they would both see the benefit of learning from eachother, and Alexander would not call Wu or China Barbaric in the same sense as they did to the Perzian Indian etc... and Alexander unlike most Greek/ Macadonian at the time was known to be good to his new subjects Greek or not (eventhough he gone insane killing his dead fathers eye apple in a rage)

At 5 Alexander got a battle hardened diciplinairy army, each new legion would get X veterans to each Y new recruits, Alexander got officers all over the place to direct his man, and he is claimed to be the son of Zeus, how high do you wish to rais your armies morale than to make them believe Gods own son is at our side? (this last thing was gone at  Macedon/ Greek supporters side after India but heck near half or maybe even more of his soldiers at that point were loyal non-greek and the Macedon would never back down in the end)

at 6 Sun Tsu would have mainly foccussed on guerilla tactics, something most people automaticly asume Alexander aint used to, big mistake =P Alexander during his campaign towards India meets lots of light calvalary hit and run troops, what does Alexander do to counter this? simply use the same tactics against the other side China style (the same hardware with a slight diffrent software)

ah damn i could write 5 books with reasons why Alexander would win but it just feels like giving free history lessons while i am not a teacher nor high educated at this moment

Thanks for reading this if you did =P

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Cornelis Glasbergen

01-02-13