- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: bri_guy
Posted by: Sornos
As most of you know ( hopefuly) the Spartans of Halo are named after the greatest warriors of all time the Spartans of Sparta. In a bit of history (yes, yes I know its boring but it can be cool), the Spartans showed their might at the Pass of Thermopalae ( excuse my spelling). Greece was at war with Persia, and an army of Persians went to attack Athens. The Spartans went to route the Persians at the only way in, the Pass of Thermopalae. It was a few hundred Spartans (the number I forget) versus an army of Persians, and the Spartans won. Now if you replace the Perians with the Covenant and the Spartans of Sparta with the Spartans of Halo, then you have a game. It would be like single flag CTF, one team would protect a base in which the only entrance would be the Pass. The Pass would have turrets and heavy weapons. The other team would spawn on a beach, with vehicles. And please excuse my spelling and my hisorical inaccuracies which I tried to keep at a minimum, so if you find a mistake please note it.
It was 300 (about) Vs. 1,000,000. the spartans (im actually not sure if the spartans actually fought here even. I think they did but they don't know) were slaughtered to the last man, but they took countless thousands with them. it was the battle of thermopolye or something like that. They talk about it in the last samurai.
FOR THE RECORD: all that was off the top of my head, please correct me if Im wrong
actually i just watched the history channe; the other day and they had that exact thing on. it was 300 spartans and 1,000 (or was it 4,000?) greece allies. the persian had 200,000 to 300,000 troops. the spartans and the greece allies fought hard for 2 days. killing at least 4 thousand of persians a day. (the spartan king was fighting along side his men) on the thrid day the spartans told the remaining greece allies to retreat and the spartans would stay and fight. by this time the spartan numbered only about a little over 2 hundred. they fought long and hard on that third day. around noon the spartan king was fatally wounded deep in the persian lines. the spartans fought all the way to the corpse and retrived it. the spartans fought until their weapons broke, and their sheilds where nothing more the splinters, and even then they used their hands and teeth. the persians finished the off the spartans with their archers. it was a demoralizing victory for the persains. and just to prove the toughness of the spartans i give you this quote said by a true spartan when he heard that the persains had so many archers that the arrows could block out the sun, "good, then we can fight in the shade."