Shortest AAR ever.

[The Persian Cataphract]

*sound of a buckshot most likely splattering a brain*

[Aemilius Paulus]

*sound of a buckshot most likely splattering a brain*

Same here. Down with 300! It should be banned at the EB forums!!

[Maion Maroneios]

I know, along with LS and Alexander too :-P

Maion

[desert]

Yeah! Let's round up 451 copies of 300 and burn them all!

Just kidding, btw.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Yeah! Let's round up 451 copies of 300 and burn them all!

Just kidding, btw.

Why 451? Just random number?

Oh and they also ride burning pigs during battle.

Hey! That is actually historically accurate! Sure, they weren't used very often, but they were still used!

Much better than Arcani and the pre-Ptolemaic Egyptians anyway. Oh and by the way, Screeching Women are actually pretty accurate. The Germanic tribes were always followed by their women. The women would be right behind them, encouraging them and when the warriors routed, the women would taunt them, usually stopping the rout.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

I wonder how would the unit card of TAB riding burning pigs, wearing LS and screaming Spartaaa would look like. Maybe someone could try doing it.

[desert]

AP - Hint: *coughRayBradburycough*

And I'm pretty sure German women couldn't massacre legionaries with giant axes.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Wait, I bet you can't resist the sight of 300 Thorakitai Agematos Basilikon wearing LS, fighting and triumphing for king Alexander against billions of Persians in the grassy flatland! Long live the immortal demigods of Sparta!

:P

Edit: Oh and they also ride burning pigs during battle.

[desert]

Wait, I bet you can't resist the sight of 300 Thorakitai Agematos Basilikon wearing LS, fighting and triumphing for king Alexander against billions of Persians in the grassy flatland! Long live the immortal demigods of Sparta!

They all stand in a line, press the bottoms of their palms together, pull their shoulders back, and start chanting, "Ka...me...ha...me..."

[Aemilius Paulus]

I know, along with LS and Alexander too :-P

Maion

Well, LS did exist, exist, you know. Just *pretends to be a snotty EB historian* "outside of the EB timeframe". Seriously, I don't see why so many people here make such a big deal of it. I mean, to me, it looks "cooler" than the standard, everyday and mundane Lorica Hamata. Perhaps it is because so many noobs come to these forums to ask about and because the Roman soldiers are always portrayed wearing it in popular media, whereas it was only in the middle days of Empire when the Romans used it.

Alexander was a pretty bad, but its depiction of the soldiers and warfare of that time in general was actually the most accurate (save for that scene where arrows slaughtered the phalanx) that I have ever seen and probably will see in my life from a Hollywood movie.

300, on the other hand was so inaccurate that the only thing that the producers got right was that at the Battle of Thermopylae Spartans and Persians were present. However, it is worth mentioning even the forces present at the battle, as depicted by the recent movie, were inaccurate. The stand of 300 Spartans was just the final part of the battle and that numerous Greek polises (plural spelling?) were present in the main battle as well. Not to mention that the Thespians stood along with the Spartans during the last stand. I found the negative to extreme portrayal of the Persians distasteful as well. The Persians actually had better reasons for starting the war, as it was the Greeks who aided the rebelling Ionian colonies in Asia Minor prior to the Greko-Persian wars.

[Ibrahim]

*sound of a buckshot most likely splattering a brain*

that's it? you're just going to shoot the guy who dissed your people?

I was expecting a long, well written, and imformative post, then you can shoot him

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I think that was the sound of him killing himself.

[Pontius Pilate]

um, yeah, about 300. it was based off a comic book, (one of the reasons why the background was shot in all CGI, in case you haven't noticed) not the actual historical event so I don't think they were aiming for historical accuarcy there. and I think the people that made the movie, and anyone who has common sense, can realize that Perisans and people in general don't look like orcs and giant rhinos. also, about ancient warfare movies in general, if you want to make a movie that people will actually watch and not die of boredom, than some historical things will have to be sacrificed. it's called making a profit. I'm sure if some of you had to make a movie you would cut out some historical things.

[Aemilius Paulus]

that's it? you're just going to shoot the guy who dissed your people?

I was expecting a long, well written, and imformative post, then you can shoot him

Yeah, me too. The Persian Cataphract is renowned for his extra-long, informative posts that employ elevated diction. Such a brief and violent post just didn't seem like him. Oh well, 300 tends to drag you down to its lowest of all levels (300 is the root of all that is evil, it not Devil causes temptation, and it is the original Pandora's box that unleashed all the evils upon this world)!

I think that was the sound of him killing himself.

What a quitter!

But no, seriously, I think TPC was shooting someone else.

[The Persian Cataphract]

It seems my attempt at humour backfired. I "shot" myself in order to relieve myself from further head-ache, an allusion to which I thought clearly was a way of expressing dissatisfaction with the direction this thread was going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tVq5OKVkQ

Ethereally, it manages to encapsulate the certain lameness of this thread.

[Aemilius Paulus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tVq5OKVkQ

[Maion Maroneios]

I must admit we did the same thing this summer, but at our local beach (I was the 'Persian' guy being kicked).

Maion

[Ibrahim]

It seems my attempt at humour backfired. I "shot" myself in order to relieve myself from further head-ache, an allusion to which I thought clearly was a way of expressing dissatisfaction with the direction this thread was going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tVq5OKVkQ

Ethereally, it manages to encapsulate the certain lameness of this thread.

oh, I see

Its just that usually, you "shoot", or to be accurate, "hose"* anyone who makes a mistake.

*hose: slang: to spray lead into a guy

as for the video: