08-12-2007, 06:28 PM
Yeah, someone said that the Spartans had more numbers, but the Thebans still beat them because they formed a deeper phalanx which broke the Spartans' line of defense. And they said the Spartans were dumb because they never employed any tactics like this at all.
And what u said about the Thebans is what I thought that they had to study the Spartans after all these years and they finally broke their code, and the Spartans who didnt expect the Thebans to employ such tactics went in with a normal phalanx and lost. Not to mention though, Sparta was pretty much screwed after the earthquake in 464, and I read that it highly effected their military well-being.
And what u said about the Thebans is what I thought that they had to study the Spartans after all these years and they finally broke their code, and the Spartans who didnt expect the Thebans to employ such tactics went in with a normal phalanx and lost. Not to mention though, Sparta was pretty much screwed after the earthquake in 464, and I read that it highly effected their military well-being.
Brazelton Wallace Mann
