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by yareally 1200 days ago
That summary is sort of the early life of Julius Caesar, but it actually worked out for him[0]. Also the story of this great little game that came out last year[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Juliu...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditions:_Rome

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Lol, interesting - I'd never heard of this game, I'll check it out.

I was just riffing on what was a pretty standard story for governors and similar officials in far-away posts - precisely because Caesar's success in engineering favourable military campaigns established a sort of blueprint.