Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-10906938-20150209013111

SkyrimsShillelagh wrote:  (Pacman's logic is sound.  The 300 Spartans held Thermopylae against a Persion army of 1,000,000.  They would have held out a lot longer than they did, except they were betrayed.  A force of any number can hold off against a bigger one as long as they have good fortifications and are only fighting on one front.) (Don't reply to this, but just to play Persian's advocate, the Greeks didn't stop them at Thermopylae. It was way more than 300, but the Athenians pulled back with the Spartans left as a roadblock. They turned out to be a bit more than a roadblock, but saying the 300 beat the Persians is wrong)