Shortest AAR ever.

[Hax]

Yeah, we do. Still, 300 is something of..well..erm...


Gah.

[Celtic_Punk]

You know waht, you guys are waaay too hard on that movie. Its pretty bad ass, you get to see spartans kick ass. Which is not very often in movies. Yes it was PISS POOR in terms of historical accuracy, and if any of you remember, I walked out on troy (and grilled the guy who sold me the ticket so hard he gave me my 8 bucks back, which has never happened before or since) but honestly, it was not meant to be historically accurate... I mean c'mon, look at the freaking snitch for god sake! he was some sort of monster. It was quite metaphorical. There is something in this world called poetic license, granted they went pretty far with said license but they kept close to the general story(hell they even admitted it wasn't only 300 Spartan), and made a story that even Leonidas might have been proud of.

tell me you didnt walk out of that theatre and had the urge to slay some persians...

nice killing ratio btw

[Tyrfingr]

Yeah, we do. Still, 300 is something of..well..erm...

the most awesome movie EVAR? ;)

[Aemilius Paulus]

My problem with 300 was not so much its historical inaccuracy: I mean, when was a Hollywood movie supposed to accurate, especially one that was based on comics, not the actual event. My main problem with it is that it features nothing but endless swordfights, blood and gore. There is really no real plot, no real dialogue or anything after the first 20 minutes of the movie. It is the epitome of empty American movie. Watch another ten of those movies and you'll turn into a mindless, violent zombie.

[Gleemonex]

Oh, it's nice to cut loose with the occasional mindless action flick now and again. 300 was quite good for that.

Just think of the harm they could have done if they'd made it about as realistic as Braveheart, say. People [1] would walk around thinking Persians really were power-hungry lecherous deformed Arabs and that Sparta was fighting for freedom.

Anyways, to return (briefly perhaps) on-topic, what methods does everyone here use to take out TABs?

-Glee

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[1] I mean normal people, not drooling jingoistic idiots who are going to think poisonous thoughts anyways.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

A plain old cavalry charge from behind, of course.

[Intranetusa]

^ As accurate as Braveheart?

The Scots never wore kilts during that time, the major battles showing how the Scots won in reality ended in Scottish defeats, and for some reason, there was no bridge at the Battle of Sterling Bridge.

[Aemilius Paulus]

^ As accurate as Braveheart?

The Scots never wore kilts during that time, the major battles showing how the Scots won in reality ended in Scottish defeats, and for some reason, there was no bridge at the Battle of Sterling Bridge.

Hey, still better than 300 in all respects. Except in lousiness. And the amount of violence. Nothing can beat 300 in those two categories.

This thread is way off topic. I wonder if it needs to be locked, if we should stop posting off-topic things, or if we should start another movie discussion thread. What do you think guys?

[Cbvani]

Oh, it's nice to cut loose with the occasional mindless action flick now and again. 300 was quite good for that.

Wow, I think this was basically the only person who got what I was trying to do with this AAR. I wasn't being realistic, I wasn't trying to be 'epic' and I wasn't trying illustrating anything. It was just an idea - "hmm, can 1 unit of fully upgraded TABs take out 20 units of weak, but very numerous, units?' I wanted to see just how crazy they really are - I mean, you can tell they rock by looking at the stats but how much do they rock, exactly?

Well if you want to know some details, here we go: between 122-82 men left I was winning, percentage-left-wise; at one point I had a 10% advantage in number of men killed. After 82, however, their numerical advantage really came through and I lost men at a rapid rate, down til about 20 men. At 20 men, my losses slowed down as my remaining men were in a tight circle and could only be engaged by a small percentage of the enemy at any given time. Around this time some of the levy spearmen even routed. I think it was about 10 units that routed, but they didn't flee the field entirely. They just ran away and came back. And then my men all died.

I am sure that if I had two units of the TAB instead of one, I could have won the battle.

[Phalanx300]

I think that you guys are being to harsh on 300. It was ment to entertain and entertain it did.


*Evades deadly assasin strikes*

[desert]

Yeah, we were thinking of two different things, Maion. I was talking about the actual number of soldiers.

And my favorite author is R. Scott Bakker. Unfortunately, no one has ever heard of him.