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Tango01

29 Sep 2025 4:25 p.m. PST

"My weekly pilgrimage to the wonderful Firestorm Games began early yesterday at one o'clock for five of us to play my version of the Battle of Issus fought in 333 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III, the Great King of Persia. Darius had outmanoeuvred Alexander by cutting in behind his advance and blocking his line of communication back into Asia Minor. Indeed it was a very Napoleonic ( have just been listening to Andrew Roberts' excellent biography of "Napoleon the Great" on Audible) strategy!…"

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