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So What is your Opinion of Philip V of Macedon. Was he a Talented leader that just had alot of bad luck? was he an incompetent leader? or either one and jsut didnt really understand what he got himself into?

Very short on time, but Hammond believes that he was just crushed by a Romani senate, and then made to look the arrogant fool for it. Romans at that time searched for excuses, any excuse that would let them attack and destroy Makedonia once and for all. Even if he could defeat the Romani, the senate would send another army, then another, then another, and another still, until Makedonia was no more.

On a much uglier note, Makedonians weren't made to suffer for the loss of Perseus, not like Epeirotes did. The amount of destruction and desolation wrought upon Epeiros at 167 BCE is unimaginable. Tens of cities destroyed, a lot of them never settled again. The capital of Thesprotians' (one of 3 top of epeiros tribes/clans, the other two being Molossians and Chaonians), Gitane, being one of them.