Shortest AAR ever.

**Maion Maroneios** · 11-14-2008, 03:00

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

Maion

**desert** · 11-14-2008, 03:05

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

Just kidding, btw.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 11-14-2008, 03:27

Originally Posted by desert

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** · 11-14-2008, 03:32

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** · 11-14-2008, 03:35

AP - Hint: *coughRayBradburycough*

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

**Maion Maroneios** · 11-14-2008, 03:45

Well, actually 300 wasn't based on the historical event, rather than a comic which in turn was inspired by it. Let us not forget that, folks. Not backing their idiocy in portraying the Persians as they did and such, just stating the facts.

Maion

**Aemilius Paulus** · 11-14-2008, 04:16

Originally Posted by desert

AP - Hint: *coughRayBradburycough*

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

What do you mean by Ray Bradbury?

Also, am not really sure if they actually fought in battles, although isolated cases are very likely, given the ferocity of the Germanic tribes. It may also be possible that the women pursued fleeing enemies, however that is just my guess. I seriously doubt the women actually did that. Still, the morale-raising chanting/singing/screeching/cheerleading special ability that the Screeching Women had in RTW was very much accurate.

@ Maion Maroneios: Well, then both the comics and the movie is INACCURATE! THIS IS EB FORUM!!! *kicks the movie and the comics 300 into a deep, dark well*!

Sorry, couldn't help but using the 300 catchphrase against itself.

**desert** · 11-14-2008, 04:21

Too many syllables, man. THIS IS EB would probably be fine.

And have you ever heard of Fahrenheit 451?

**A Terribly Harmful Name** · 11-14-2008, 03:06

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** · 11-14-2008, 03:11

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** · 11-14-2008, 03:17

Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios

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.