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How severe an injury / ailment to the legs have to be for a king / ruler of this era to consider abdication? If they have a serious case of gouty arthritis, would that lead to abdication? I assume any sort of leg amputation is an automatic disqualification for ruling, yes?

I love the "never one to get too bogged on down on details" part. Now that's someone who is only looking out for number one hehehehe. :biggrin:

Heh, let me point out Christian Bale has played Jesus in a TV movie about the Virgin Mary, who was played by Anakin Skywalker's mom (the movie itself was "meh" although Bale as usual acted as seriously in bad movies as he does in Oscar-bait films). The idea of Jesus' twin acting as the...

So Merrekhists are kinda like Buddhism version of Atenism while Hepism is closer to the Abrahamaic religions? Though that's probably a generalization. There's something of Protestanism and even Sufi Islam in Merrekhist beliefs.

This is great! Love it! Its like "What would happen if Christianity was founded by a reigning Judean monarch". Or maybe "what if Siddartha founded Buddhism as a royal state religion instead of reaching enlightenment outside palace life". Someone already made the comparison of the "demons" here...

Yes, I think the family name was originally "De Weyne". Also Bruce Wayne himself is partially named from Robert the Bruce, Scotland's king who won the Battle of Bannockburn but I forget who came up with that idea, Bob Kane or Bill Finger. Nah, the problem is that Batman's "no kill" rule is the...

You want a comic book superhero character in a real life historical setting, which includes his over the top gadgets and impossible "no killing, even by accident because a hard blow to the head is totally harmless"....? You need someone less like Batman and more like the Scarlet Pimpernel (the...

Antony's main problem wouldn't be the Parthians. As others mentioned, its the legions that will be the biggest headache. Remember in OTL, Octavian paused his campaign post-Actium to deal with possible legion mutiny back in Italy. Maecenas couldn't handle it nor Agrippa, the legions wanted direct...

Because as I mentioned, we don't know anything about the mindset or endgame or agenda of Antony and Cleo from any independant sources. What we have all go through the lens of Augustan propaganda, that's where we get this picture of Antony and Cleopatra, the greatest love couple of the ancient...

You mean led by Antony. Cleo is just Queen of Egypt and Antony's mistress (in a timeline where Marcus Antonious lives on post-Actium, she might be known as just one among many women he had affairs with, just like Caesar or even Augustus). That she would "rule" over the Empire is Augustan...

But the scenario calls for more than a strategy that was "quite sound". Under this scenario, Antony need to win absolutely and smash the rival fleet, killing Octavian AND Agrippa. Its not just about breaking the blockade. So you do need something drastic to change ITL, which includes ol' Antony...

Freak storm during the night results in most of Octavian's fleet to sink, including the ship carrying Agrippa. Next day, Octavian loses this alternate Battle of Actium and is executed by order of Antony and the eeeeevil Queen of Egypt. That's the one way I can see this scenario happening :angel:

Oh thank you for reminding me that Antony via his daughter is an ancestor of Nero! Then again, wasn't Agrippa also an ancestor of Nero? So the younger one was OTL married to Drusus (also an ancestor of Nero!), I do wonder if that will still happen in this scenario. Livia will definitely need to...

By this time, Antony's oldest son is not yet promised to anyone? He's what, 16, 17 already? The elder son could marry a bride from a patrician pro-Republic family, one of those that supported Antony even before Actium. This would be a good indicator to his allies that Antony wants to "restore...

Assuming, somehow, Antony suddenly becomes a competent admiral (needs to be more competent than his Parthian campaign!), Cleo somehow does nothing to alienate their Roman allies...yeah. So maybe a freak storm caused Agrippa's ship and most of the fleet to sink, leaving Octavian totally...