Historically (in)accurate hoplites

**Mediolanicus** · 07-30-2009, 09:04

We've got a guy on the twcenter forum who wants to speak the EB team about the hoplites.

I want to know what the EB team has to say about his sources and his claims.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=281532
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=281006

**option** · 07-30-2009, 09:36

The reason hoplites don't have a sword is because they would always end up switching to it. Each unit switches to its secondary after being knocked down, which doesn't help either.

**Krusader** · 07-30-2009, 09:49

Hasn't JMRC answered him?

He ignored that. And from what I saw earlier he has read one book and that is all the evidence he needs apparently. No use fighting a mule.

We have done a lot of testing and trial & error within EB regarding spear & sword units, but we unfortunately had to remove the swords to make the hoplites as "hoplitey" as they can be.

**satalexton** · 07-30-2009, 10:02

I don't know. I have only read half a dozen posts, and the impression I got is as thus:

-He's got two 'sources', and one of them's a webpage.
-The sources he holds, apparently, are the holygrail to all answers.
-The EB team are infidels and heretics for doubting the holy truth.
-He is the prophet to the holy truth of how hoplites fought.
-He is the said prophet because he read the holygrail.

oh ye, his tone reminds me of a 12-15 year old that thinks he know it all cuz he's a little nerdier than his peers =P
I've been thru that stage, I know =]

**abou** · 07-30-2009, 10:47

It is taking all my willpower not to destroy him and unleash a blackest night of horrors so painful that he cries blood tears. I just can't respond to a person like that politely.