Alexander conquers east while Antipater conquers west

Could Alexander order Antipater to conquer Rome or Carthage or the rest of the Balkans at some-point while he is alive.

What time would be best Antipater to head West

How successfully would he be

How would this impact the Diadochi
 
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IIRC, plans for the conquest of the Mediterranean were found among Alexander’s personal papers after he dies, so it was something that he may have been thinking about on some level.
 
With what army? Most of them were with Alexander, and he needed to recruit mercenaries to fend off Sparta. He needs to leave armies to keep the Greek city states in line, keep invasions away, continue sending troops to Alexander's conquests and armies and somehow this new army.
 
IIRC, plans for the conquest of the Mediterranean were found among Alexander’s personal papers after he dies, so it was something that he may have been thinking about on some level.
Well no way who Alexander has not started to planning something like that as he surely wanted avenge the death of his uncle and brother-in-law who was killed while fighting in Italy...


Could Alexander order Antipater to conquer Rome or Carthage or the rest of the Balkans at some-point while he is alive.

What time would be best Antipater to head West

How successfully would he be

How would this impact the Diadochi
Would not be better a successful expedition in the west of Alexander of Epirus (aka Alexander’s maternal uncle and brother-in-law)?
Antipater is blocked in Macedonia as regent until Alexander will either return or named/send someone to replace him. And I do not think who Alexander had ever trusted Antipater at the level needed for give him the command of an army, specially not after his conflict with Olympia
 
With what army? Most of them were with Alexander, and he needed to recruit mercenaries to fend off Sparta. He needs to leave armies to keep the Greek city states in line, keep invasions away, continue sending troops to Alexander's conquests and armies and somehow this new army.
Could people from his eastern conquests be used ?

Would not be better a successful expedition in the west of Alexander of Epirus (aka Alexander’s maternal uncle and brother-in-law)?
What would be required for a more successfully expedition
 
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