Caesar Biden
Banned
Yeah, which has little to do with the annexation and occurred within a wider context of the decay of the thematic troops in quality and readiness.
So yeah, I don't see why the annexation represents anything fatal. If anything it represents an opportunity to plant a more permanent border defense without having to go through an Armenian king for permission.
No one said it was fatal, just unnecessary. It's just probably better to campaign in Syria than Armenia, when the current situation already forms a decent defense barrier. None of this would have been a problem had all the civilian militias collapsed as they did, but my point is Armenia functioned pretty much equally well as a series of buffer states compared to under direct Roman control.