DBWI: Alexander not killed at Granicus

For those that don't know, around 300 B.C. there was this little known ruler of Macedon called Alexander. He was killed in this battle of Granicus when a Persian noble hit him with an ax. The Macedonians won the battle, but returned home due to the Alexander's death.

So what would you guys think would have happened if he wasn't killed? Looking back at his life, he seemed to be a promising commander, and might have given the Persians a little trouble. Of course he didn't have common sense considering he tried to conquer the whole Persian empire with just 50,000 or so men:rolleyes:
 
For those that don't know, around 300 B.C. there was this little known ruler of Macedon called Alexander. He was killed in this battle of Granicus when a Persian noble hit him with an ax. The Macedonians won the battle, but returned home due to the Alexander's death.

So what would you guys think would have happened if he wasn't killed? Looking back at his life, he seemed to be a promising commander, and might have given the Persians a little trouble. Of course he didn't have common sense considering he tried to conquer the whole Persian empire with just 50,000 or so men:rolleyes:

OOC: A POD around 300 B.C. blutterflies away Jesus, much less Dionysus Exiguus (butchered, I know). The calendrical system used today would never have come into existence.

IC: You're kidding, right? Someone tried to conquer the Achaemenids? WTF good would it have done, they were already on the outs as it was. Quite a fortunate thing for civilization that the Empire survived under the Armenians. If they hadn't stepped in, why, we might have had a civilization emerge based on Eastern principles, instead of our true Western deity. Hail Thunor!
 
Didn't Macedonia dominate Greece at this point?

Perhaps he would just consolidate his power there, resulting in a Greece that wouldn't succumb to the Romans.
 
Didn't Macedonia dominate Greece at this point?

Perhaps he would just consolidate his power there, resulting in a Greece that wouldn't succumb to the Romans.

I'm not sure Alexander really could have stopped that juggernaut. The Armenian Empire collapsed for good once the Romans did it, and they were a helluva lot stronger than the Hellenes. Regardless, we all know that the Hellenistic pantheon failed Rome, once we Germanics imposed our deities upon them. As I said, Hail Thunor Odinsohn, without whom the Greater Jutish Empire in North Axelia (OOC: North America) never could have arisen.
 
How could even a Macedonian boy conquer whole Achaemenid Empire? You've gotta be kidding, it's completely ASB. Hellenes never had such a power alltogether, yet the Macedonia alone.
 

Keenir

Banned
For those that don't know, around 300 B.C. there was this little known ruler of Macedon called Alexander. He was killed in this battle of Granicus when a Persian noble hit him with an ax. The Macedonians won the battle, but returned home due to the Alexander's death.

So what would you guys think would have happened if he wasn't killed? Looking back at his life, he seemed to be a promising commander, and might have given the Persians a little trouble. Of course he didn't have common sense considering he tried to conquer the whole Persian empire with just 50,000 or so men:rolleyes:

If he'd survived, he might've tried to consolidate a border empire between Persia and what would become the Dual Empire of Rome And Dacia. the Commagenes would've been welcoming to someone like Alexander, and he would've appreciated the fort-like nature of their cities.

(didn't Gordion - home of the Knot - have a prophecy about Alexander?)

Praise Bes-Serapis!
 
If he'd survived, he might've tried to consolidate a border empire between Persia and what would become the Dual Empire of Rome And Dacia. the Commagenes would've been welcoming to someone like Alexander, and he would've appreciated the fort-like nature of their cities.

(didn't Gordion - home of the Knot - have a prophecy about Alexander?)

Praise Bes-Serapis!

Pah, what's Serapis ever done? Kept you bastards in Europe, that's what! Thunor took the Jutes into the better part of a continent, or would have, if those lousy Lusitanians hadn't gone and fucked up the better part of what they in their arrogance dub Fernao (OOC: South America to the Valley of Mexico). At least the Terragonesians didn't fuck up anything more than the Io River (OOC: Amazon) and the surrounding areas. What horrors might have resulted from a Terragonesian Fernao or a Lusitanian Triumvirate of the Io?

It's almost as preposterous as assuming that this Alexander fellow could have whomped a superpower.
 
(didn't Gordion - home of the Knot - have a prophecy about Alexander?)

It haven't stated "Alexander", whoever the guy was. Still, notice that knot is still there, maybe it's just tourist attraction but nobody - especially overambitious boy from underdog hellene country - would ever get to unplot it.
 
Well, the ravaging of the Achaemenid Empire would probably set back intellectual and technological development back hundreds of years...imagine a world where we didn't have the telegraphs, steamboats, and smokeless-powder artillery that are the peak of science today.
 

Keenir

Banned
It haven't stated "Alexander", whoever the guy was. Still, notice that knot is still there, maybe it's just tourist attraction but nobody - especially overambitious boy from underdog hellene country - would ever get to unplot it.

(ooc: I thought he visited there before Granicus)

IC:
Pah, what's Serapis ever done? Kept you bastards in Europe, that's what!

Bes-Serapis, not Serapis!

and as for being "kept" in Europe...which we ruled with a velvet-iron fist! (Clovis VIII excepted)

Thunor took the Jutes into the better part of a continent,
yeah,...but first Emperor Clovis VIII granted you the right to worship freely - and you paid him back with open rebellion & running away to that continent.

It's almost as preposterous as assuming that this Alexander fellow could have whomped a superpower.
meh, the Io was almost deeded back to us, what with all their debts piling up. so yeah, as preposterous, since it would've been ours.
 
Recent research in the University of Carthage has proven that Alexander would have a 67% chance to die at the Granicus, if Alexander would not have been killed the Macedonian would have completely destroyed the Persian army at the Granicus. However if he could have defeated the main Persian army in Kwazmarin (Syria)
 
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