[FlameThrower]

And not always winning.

[ScholarWarrior]

You're right, sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't. We bounce back. Sometimes it takes five hundred years.

Worked: Thermopylae, Vienna, Spain, Punic Wars, WWI, WWII, Indian Wars.

Didn't work: Syracuse, Alaric, Vietnam, most Crusades, and most Colonial incursions.