Any new spartan unit in the making?

[fallen851]

You guys are misunderstanding; our unit doesn't have the full red cloak of Spartan tradition, just a small one.

Ok, so it has a small cloak, which isn't traditional for a Spartan unit if I understand what you said correct, and you said it quite clearly, but I think you stated it incorrectly? And the cloak was used as blanket, is it big enough to be that?

Warry uses Thucycdides, Xenophon, and Plutarch as his main sources for that chapter.

I looked into Lykourgos, who Plutarch wrote a biography of, so I'm sure Warry is very familiar with him.

But enough with sources, would you wear your blanket in battle? Too often I think people read into sources as if they are end-all be-all arguements. We need to think "Does this make sense?"

I don't think so. It would be hot, it would blow in the wind into spear points, in melee combat, someone could easily grab it from a distance and drag another one down, and it would just get in you way... it simply doesn't make sense. Who would wear a blanket around them?

Spartans weren't dumb, they would not sacrifice combat ability to "scare their enemies" or whatever. The rest of their battle array was designed for protection and mobility, why hamper that?

I'd say that if EB wanted to err on the side of caution, it would remove the cloak. The sources may differ (I haven't looked at this indepth, but the sources I've read said they were discarded), but one thing is for sure, wearing a cloak in battle is not an advantage.