05-17-2010, 07:36 AM
The Alexander vs. Attila episode was a joke! For starters they gave Alexander hoplite muscle curaisses, when in fact he wore a kevlar-like armour made by taking linen, folding it a lot, and compressing it, and repeating that with three different layers of cloth. According to where I read about this it was enough to stop most sword strikes and deflect arrows, they even tested it. And for peats sake they gave Attila a Scythian axe. Not even close to being Hunnic! (I could be wrong though) They even allowed for his "Sword of Mars" to be made of Meteorite Iron and be shaped like a germanic migration period cavalry sword! Overall bad science. And the guys in my history class, delusioned by this show and the movie 300, believe that Spartans are the perfect warriors and get extremely emotinal if anyone says otherwise! Trust me, if I do see the show, I don't like what I see.
Nicholas
