Pompey wasn't really a good general, he was good at utilizing the superior resources of Rome against weak enemies, see Quintus Sertorius. Caesar however was a very good general, from a start point in Gaul he pretty much reconquered Rome.
So to answer your question, yes, he was fucked from the start.

>>348182
Also, if he had won the republic would have lasted a little longer, although as Brutus put it, some other ambitious man would take Caesar place eventually, the republic, excluding based Cato, was corrupt as hell and bound to fall apart

>>348182
>Sertorius
>weak

Man Sertorius was so good that even the god-on-Earth we call Sulla didn't want to deal with him. Sertorius was eventually done in only by trickery and treason from within. Otherwise the war would've dragged on another decade or two.

We had a Pompey thread a few days back anyway.

>>349043
The reason his men turned on him was because Pompey was slowly making ground in Hispania and he had become a drunk

>>349157
*Metellus Pius* was slowly making ground in Hispania.

>>349303
I recall them both working together?

>>349157
one good general couldn't hold out forever vs the resources rome could bring to a fight. See hannibal.

Nothing special about pompey being in charge.

Sertorius turned to drink thanks to depression, he just wanted to return to Rome rather than rule in bug fuck nowhere

>>348176

The retreat from Rome was necessary, he didn't have forces on hand to oppose Caesar's.

But the mistake was retreating east to his money, not west to his army.

>>349727
How was he going to pay the army without the money? If he had gone west he wouldn't have managed to gather those 10 legions, even if his men had been willing to fight for free (top kek) he still would have needed to feed them.

>>349833
You are aware that according to Caesar, that's what Pompey should have done, right?

And furthermore, it took months and a siege to cause the Pompeyan legions to break. They were clearly feeding themselves, and seeemed to be able to do so for a while. With leadership and direction, they could have actually done something, and furthermore, they can be paid when the campaign was over, which was fairly standard for legions. Or subsisted on plundering the local population, fairly standard for the time.