The Battle of Thermopylae, 300.

Well hello everyone, I do apologies for the delay, not only has my computer been not too well, but I thought someone had stolen my wallet, after cancelling all my card it turns back up... always the way isn't it?

Here we are back to our Spartan buddies and their finest hour.

The Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 brave (suicidal) Spartan soldiers held the line against a Persian force of something between 100'000 and 300'000 (i.e. a lot)

Now what most interpritations of 300 don't tell you, is the Greeks had a line infront of the Spartans consisting of 7000 men, with which they held off the Persian invaders for 7 days before the Spartan rear line had to go into the fray, pretty impressive if you ask me, and a shame most people leave it out.

As most of you know 'The Battle of Thermopylae' was mainly famous for the tactic of condensing numbers to remove a significant advantage from the enemy, even though the Spartans were few in number, the 'hot gates' (named not due to the gates of Hades as perceived, but the hot springs that surrounded the area) forced the enemy to fight on equal number.

Now to be brutally honest, I'm not sure how many forces at the time aside from the Spartans could have pulled this tactic off, think about it, fighting the enemy on equal number is a nice boon, but you still have the issue of they can constantly reinforce.

As you keep striking down waves of opponents you're getting tired, and your morale begins to falter.

Yet each fresh faced new group of cannon fodder that assaults you will be eager and energetic.



Basically if it wasn't for the Spartan training of to fight hard and to keep fighting till the end, I honestly don't think they would have made much of an impact.

Well thats all I have to say on one of the greatest battles of history, 300 Spartans and 7000 Greeks VS 100'000 - 300'000 Persians... is not a bad kill ratio at all.

Till next time everyone.