avocadia . # .

I only just saw 300 this week, after a mate dumped a whole bunch of rips on me.

Sparta understood only one kind of fighting: land battle, the hoplite shield-wall

I was vastly amused when, after shooing the hunchback away because he couldn't be part of a shield wall, the Spartans engaged the Persians in a phalanx formation only once for about fifteen seconds, and then broke it up to fight as individuals in the standard barbarian fashion that phalanxes tended to pulverize.

I guess there is less opportunity for posers posing in posing pouches when they are squeezed together in a shield wall.