I've also heard somewhere that Thermopylae hill was far more formidable in the olden days than it is now.
That's impossible. Human beings are only capable of 3 days of hard fighting. After 4-5 days of no sleep, your grandmother could beat you. The Persians greatly outnumbered the Greeks, which means they always had fresh men. Greek defeat was inevitable without a fort.
I was speaking tactically here. The reason why Leonidas and the 300 lost was because his co-king didn't send the Spartan Army to reinforce his position. Good movies about Thermopylae, The 300 Spartans, which was filmed on location in Greece, and 300, based on Frank Miller's graphic novelThey did. Inasmuch as "win" can be meant as "achieved the tactical and strategic goals". The battle at the Hot Gates was a delaying action allowing the other Greeks to the south time to regroup and reorganised their forces. It succeeded in its goals, ergo the Spartans won. Not necessarily a tactical victory, but then again it was never meant to be; the men went in there with full knowledge that it was a suicide mission with the ultimate goal of a Greek coalition strategic victory.
Good movies about Thermopylae, The 300 Spartans, which was filmed on location in Greece, and 300, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel
of the same name.
Lol, seriously?![]()
It's not that. I take issue with the racist portrayal of Immortals as ork ninjas, when they were actually elf pirates.Are you claiming that the Spartan ephors weren't hunchbacked sexual deviants? 'Cause I'm fairly sure they were!![]()
Well seems like they went through a river valley. A river whose mouth was just a few km south of their camp... I mean, it still doesnt look all that "secret backdoor" to me. Besides, what did the Persians plan anyways, to keep north of the mountains, going all around them, until arriving in Attica and then going all the way south of them again?Check the topography- those hills rise 5000 feet in a few miles. Not easy to haul supplies for a large force over.
Are you claiming that the Spartan ephors weren't hunchbacked sexual deviants? 'Cause I'm fairly sure they were!![]()
Well seems like they went through a river valley. A river whose mouth was just a few km south of their camp... I mean, it still doesnt look all that "secret backdoor" to me. Besides, what did the Persians plan anyways, to keep north of the mountains, going all around them, until arriving in Attica and then going all the way south of them again?
Well I don't know about that but I do know that Persia is in Africa so there was nothing strange about the numerous black generals and troops depicted. Nothing strange at all.
Easy! There is a myth that on the last night, as the Persian troops were going up the goat track, a tiny group of Spartans infiltrated the Persian camp and cut their way into Xerxes pavillion but failed to kill him. Just have this be true and have the Spartans kill Xerxes, the Persian army will melt away 20 minutes after the word gets out and will never advance into Attica.
That would work. But what after? I say the Spartans wait for the army, then march north and conquer Macedon and Persian Thrace. Then you might get an earlier Peloponnesian War and Civil unrest in Persia. You could even turn this into a complete Sparta wank.