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meninwhite
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Topic: 300 Spartans v.s 50 War elephants Posted: 13-Oct-2005 at 14:41 |
Okay this really that good but any ways.Say Xerxes brought War elephants to Greece and had them charge at the Spartans The Spartans would be scared stif and would have a hard time prising there tough skin and porible would wipe out all the spartans or atleast most of them and the rest of the army could conquer Athens.
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Posted: 13-Oct-2005 at 15:32 |
Spartans were like in palanxes with twelve foot long pointy things.
The elephants would run at the Spartans, as they got a little close they would slow a little, as they got a lot close they would slow a lot. When they were near the long pointy pokey things they would completely stop turn their heads look up at their drivers and go "Are you taking the p*ss mate, whatcha think I am, shish kebab?" Turn round and bugger off back to their own lines.
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Posted: 13-Oct-2005 at 15:48 |
If RTW is anything to go buy, you can make then run away with slingers
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Posted: 22-Oct-2005 at 12:21 |
The elephants would run at the Spartans, as they got a little close they would slow a little, as they got a lot close they would slow a lot |
According to articles I've read, including that of in Wikipedia, once elephants start stampeding, they don't stop.
So the scenario would most be like the one in "Alexander the Great"- the elephant crashing through the lines.
...Unless the spartans knew how to squeal like a pig, in which the elephants will freak out and attack their own flanks.
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Posted: 22-Oct-2005 at 19:09 |
"50 elephants vs. 300 men" means "1 elephant vs. 6 men" and in that case the elephant would crush the guys, even if they were equiped with 100 meters-long spears.
The elephants may be scared by long spears, but not as much as the men who are facing elephants.
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Posted: 22-Oct-2005 at 19:57 |
50 elephants? u have any idea how formidable that would be when faced by only three hundred men?
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Posted: 22-Oct-2005 at 20:17 |
Agreed, but didn't you notice that the topic really suits to this section of the forum?
I'm sure meninwhite did it on purpose.
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Posted: 22-Oct-2005 at 20:51 |
Of course the ele's would win
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Posted: 26-Oct-2005 at 01:29 |
I am willing to stake that even five elephants are sufficient to kill 300 Spartans.
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Posted: 28-Oct-2005 at 10:55 |
And you would lose. Sixty soldiers, equipped with spears, can take out a single elephant fairly easily.
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Posted: 12-Dec-2005 at 11:17 |
definatly the sparrtans. if phlanaxes didnt work, then they'd throw there spears heh.
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people are the emotions of other people
(im not albino..or pale!)
.....or an alien..
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