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Fun fact leonidas died before his hole army did and his remaining soldiers pushed the enemys back 4 times to try and get their kings body but they eventually were surrounded and killed
cykacookie tardovic tbf Sparta only had 300 in that battle and Persians had like 5000 including some of the immortals and Sparta still put up a good fight
@@cykacookietardovic659 no persians lost against Athens in war and Athens won the war against Persians and Xerxes died bcz he was killed by his bodyguard
cykacookie tardovic Persia Houghton Greece from about 499bc to 449bc the most intense fighting was the two Persian invasions first in around 492bc then again in about 480bc the Persians lost both times and ultimately they lost the entire war
@@ComeHonorBulge Exactly. A retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae with a lot of historical liberties. Doesn't mean the comic or the movie are bad, but they're certainly not accurate to what actually happened. And, while this game does get right a bunch of stuff (for instance, how Leonidas Is clearly +50 years old), it also takes clear inspiration from 300, and still has inaccuracies.
if someone in the Spartan army had anything long range it was cause they were hired mercenary no full blooded Spartan even so much as thought of using long range equipment because they felt it was unmanly or dishonorable
True most of their light infantry, skirmishers and missile troops are either Spartan helots (serfs or slaves depending on how you look at it) or mercenaries. Full Spartan citizens fought as hoplites.
cant be mad to be honest, AC gave us so much eras, hey vikings are next they announced ragnarok. Rumors say feudal japan with samurais next!! what time to live :)
Nostalgic memories lmao Sucker Punch beat Ubisoft to it. Ghost of Tsushima is going to be the Assasins Creed: Japan that we wanted but Ubisoft eternally delays.
Three arrows to the body, a blade to the gut, getting LIFTED with the blade still in him...all without so much as a whimper or without shedding a tear. Way to take it like a man, Leonidas!
Spartans were the descents of hercules himself taught to never retreat, never to surrender, and taught that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory in his life. Spartans the greatest warriors the world has ever known. they either return to Sparta with their shields or upon them
If the arrows are precise yes they are. Despite having inferior weapons to the Greeks, persian archers were notorious for their accuracy so watching this makes sense if they were hitting the Spartans in the face, neck, etc.
The armor was mostly to ward off grazing blows and the splinter from metal on metal. A direct shot from an arrow with sufficient velocity could nearly any piece of armor or shield, as demonstrated by the historical Battle of Agincourt where outnumbered English troops consisting largely of archers defeated a vastly superior French army of knights armed with the strongest armor and shields of the age. Only reason we don't use bows and arrows anymore is not because they are no longer effective in dealing death, but simply because bullets are FAR more effect.
Jason Rabeiro Guns do not require training to use. Guns are much much much more precise from first shot from a complete novice as compared to a bow. Bullets are easier to carry and you can carry a lot more. You can fire bullet after bullet after bullet with just moving a finger, as compared to loading each arrow separately and then having to aim again. You can still fire a gun even if you miss a finger or two. After shooting 300 bullets you can still shoot 1000 more. After shooting 300 arrows, well let's just say your arm will fall off (you will hurt after shooting non-stop as well.. but you can last MUCH MUCH longer)
STAIN you would be piss off too if over 10000(estimated) of your mens were killed so I wouldn't say he was butt hurt more like he was mad that so much of his people were killed.
T3RM1NAT0R XII uhhh where did you get that number of 600k out of the 2 million died just asking ? Historically they usually exaggerate the numbers of their army back then. It also wasn't 300 spartan that held then back too just heads up not sure which record keeper wrote that unless you watched the movie 300.
Someone 1 no. Some Vikings and Celts that could't afford armor choosed to go for the intimidation factor going in naked, but they would use shields, and of course were not entire armies lol
Leonidas gets shot with multiple arrows, and gets stabbed through the abdomen. Yet still stands to look his enemy in the eye and kills him before succumbing to his wounds. What a fuckin badass.
To all the people confused why Leonidas' armor was so weak against ranged fire: Armor was mostly to ward off grazing blows and the splinter from metal on metal. A direct shot from an arrow with sufficient velocity could nearly any piece of armor or shield, as demonstrated by the historical Battle of Agincourt where outnumbered English troops consisting largely of archers defeated a vastly superior French army of knights armed with the strongest armor and shields of the age. Only reason we don't use bows and arrows anymore is not because they are no longer effective in dealing death, but simply because bullets are FAR more effect.
But wait, the bows that the English used at Agincourt were longbows, weren't they? And those were actually kind of ridiculous with how powerful they were, right? Were the Persian bows at Thermopylae comparable?
@@primordialbias8711 You're right, they were far more powerful than Persian bows, but a Medieval Knight's steel plate armor was also far more durable than a bronze cuirass. The Persians grew their Empire on the strength of their archers and cavalrymen so I just to wanted to explain that their bows were definitely strong enough to pierce Greek armor.
Thats a misconception. Armor was very effective for what it does. There are French accounts before even that battle that they waded through the English arrows like it was rain. They lost the battle of Agincourt not because of the archers killing them, but because of poor decisions and the terrain. The fact that armor was so good against arrows was why the French men at arms were overconfident in that first part in that battle. Properly made armor will not be so vulnerable to arrows.
You seem like a nice dude, Jason. Believe me when I say this isn't personal. But you're entirely wrong. The kind of bodily protection that 'mostly warded off grazing blows' would be in a whole different category than plate armor. It's what I'd categorically call 'Light' historical armor. We're talking anything from regular civilian fabric clothing, to light or untreated leather jacks, to other forms of light linen armor. Strong piercing thrusts generally pierce such light armor. Cuts were resisted to a moderate degree by this. In a category of 'Medium'-ish armor I'd consider something like Gambeson, thick multi-layer linen clothing, and boiled or treated hardened leather, (which itself is fairly rare in the historical record). This would provide very good protection against cuts by hand-weapons, barring larger two-handed polearms, but would still potentially be vulnerable to be punched through by strong, supported thrusts. You'd be extremely surprised how a modern analogue, a simple winter coat, protects so well against cuts, and could even limit the effectiveness of a thrust. In the 'Heavy' category I'd put maille, scale armor/llamelar, and plate. Even going as far back as bronze armor, this is generally all but impervious to cuts, which leave only the most superficial knicks and scratches on the surface. Typical hand-weapons generally do not pierce these without extreme force, and even when they do, most often than not they go in to a depth measured in no more than a few centimeters or an inch. These are best combated by circumventing the pierce altogether with blunt-trauma weapons, or by using a dedicated thick spiked weapon to try to punch into the armor and penetrate through it. So no. Historical bronze cuirasses of this period were not 'for glancing blows'. If you know anything about bronze you'd know it can be and is (naturally) work-hardened, which can be done even cold, (unlike with iron/steel), which happens naturally as it's hammered out in the shape of the form of the muscle cuirasse. And, as we get further into history, the cuirasses get stronger and stronger. By the time of Agincourt, which you reference, damn near no human-powered weapon would get very far into a cuirasse with any ease at all. Late cuirasse developments saw the belly bowed/bulging in a semi-spherical shape which aided further in defence and also put distance between the metal and the man's mail or padding beneath, which meant that minor penetrations would be even *less* effective. Now, as for what happened at Agincourt? Well, any astute student of history would learn that the atrocious weather conditions seriously bogged down the French cavalry and knights atop them. It rained a lot prior, and the conditions then in that region are the same now, you get deep, thick mud that creates suction when you try to pull your foot and walk out. In other words, for a man wearing an extra 60lbs of full-body armor, it would be exhausting to walk through. Scholars have surmised that at least some portion of the French cavalry, (the horses themselves, not the man), may not have had full-body protection, and the English rain of arrows was in truth far less likely to hurt the man as it was the horse. Horses whose speed and impetus was bogged down by the conditions. Dismounted knights then were also further bogged down by the conditions. And English archers there, being lightly armored and fleet of foot, could beat down, smother and overwhelm the knights by the time they'd reached them. Furthermore, for your viewing pleasure, these videos. Absolutely no qualitative test today has ever shown that period plate armor, from any period, could be *easily* pierced by a typical bow's arrow or a crossbow's bolt *at any decent range beyond something like 20 yards or 30-ish feet*. No, not even those powerful English warbows. As you watch these, bear in mind that as I said, most cuirasses by the 14th c. onward are bowed at the belly, giving more space between the thickest part of the cuirasse and the user. At the time of Agincourt, they also wore mail beneath it. An excellent cuirass completely shrugs off the arrow from a 120lb english longbow. - ruclips.net/video/Ej3qjUzUzQg/видео.html Relatively cheapish reproduction of a historical plate against crossbows, including a heavy crossbow which requires a windlass to load. Shallow penetrations. - ruclips.net/video/XMT6hjwY8NQ/видео.html One of the typical conclusions. - ruclips.net/video/D3997HZuWjk/видео.html Crossbow, (which admittedly amounts to only an 80lb or so bow). - ruclips.net/video/gwKNBB9Ww2E/видео.html Some good strong bows against what I genuinely presume, compared to what the above videos have shown, is a fairly cheap, soft-ish cuirass. Most of these penetrate less than an inch into the cuirass, which wouldn't even touch the mail yet due to it's bowled shape. - ruclips.net/video/KCE40J93m5c/видео.html Another - ruclips.net/video/DCywaYlQxWE/видео.html Here we have a crudely shaped, (looks nothing like any armor, it's cheap mild steel) hunk of metal fixed static onto a post (human bodies give to impact, they aren't braced static), performing the role of the period plate without proper heat treatment, and even then, only a handful of the arrows actually go far enough that they'd even touch the armor beneath it. They likely wouldn't have the energy to get through the mail. ruclips.net/video/q-Xp56uVyxs/видео.html Generally speaking, in rebuttal to your claim about the effectiveness of armor and plate, by the mid-15th-to-16th century, plate armor was so damn effective at protection from any common blow that rich knights literally stopped carrying shields as the armor was the shield, instead opting for more potent two-handed weapons. That says a lot. huaban.com/pins/407741673/ huaban.com/pins/407741629/ huaban.com/pins/407741600/ i.imgur.com/kylX8KU.gif
Something of an ongoing pet peeve of mine is ubisoft's tendency to make everyone's voices even foreign character's feel forced. Like their really just tryin to over-emphasize the accent and completely ignore how well english everyone speaks with an extremely strong accent.
Santiago Morales no because in the first cutscene of the game Leonidas said”I would have liked to go fishing with my son” this could possibly show myrene (alexios/kassandra’s mother) might be the last born there is a reason nikoloas isn’t the king but a general,and he was still just a general before nikoloas and myrene split. So alexios or kassandra do have royal blood but do not have the right to sit on the throne,also I think leonidas son may have died because no one mentions myrene’s older brother and in Sparta the people sometimes pick new rulers if a bloodline died and they wouldn’t have given it to myrene after her brother died because she left Sparta and her children disgraced Sparta.
Sadly he was he got hit early in the fight with a arrow in the throat when they got surrounded. The rest of the spartans fought the pesians to defend his body until they all died in a rain of arrows.
Nahhh they were assholes ... 100 or so years after this sparta took side of persia and destroyed Athens...and spartans as a nation were assholes ...they were the one with slaves on the other hands persians had zero slaves... Movie 300 and this game is totally based on how spartans viewed Spartan...not actual history
So, the Spear of Leonidas is an Isu artefact. In AC origins aya said that the first hidden blade that was given to bayek killed xerxes. So maybe that means that the Spear will become the blade at some po int.
@alexgamer 155 thanks, I was not sure what he meant. I still find it annoying that they retconed the Assassin creed's lore with Origins, since it was Darius who originally had the assassin's symbol way before "the hidden ones".
time to learn some ancient greek history people..ehh..Leonidas statue stands proudly in contemporary greece in Sparti ,Lakonia and in Thermopylai in the old National road to Lamia ...
Contrary to popular belief, the 300 Spartans did not face Xerxes' army alone. King Leonidas certainly did not dismiss all others because he saw fear in their eyes. Upon being betrayed by Ephialtes, and realizing they could not win, Leonidas did send the majority of the Greek forces home, but around 2,000 others did stay in one last glorious stand with his Spartans.
Yep. They only retreated because Leonidas ordered them to, because while the pass was certainly lost, Greece still needed a military and since the Greeks were in heavy fighting for 2 days prior to the final day, a lot of whom he sent home were pretty much veterans at this point and were pivotal to removing Xerxes from Greece. Thankfully Themistocles was still around too.
Themistocles gets very little love. He was the Leonidas of the sea. His actions in the bay were every bit as important as the Spartan anchored holding of the pass. And then, a year later, when the Spartans were working over the Persians on land, Themistocles was at sea spanking Xeres fleet, forcing him to break out and run back for Persia never to be heard from again.
Anyone else notice how when Leonidas was hit with that last spear his stumble was the same pattern ezio had in the beginning of revelations? Even looks like him a bit too, huh.
I would like to point out that the MAJOR HISTORICAL MISTAKE by ubisoft is that A spartan could never abandon his shield on battle. The shield was a family relic. A spartan who returned home without his shield should abandon his city and his citizen rights. The very king of sparta SHOULD HAVE A SHIELD. Its like big MALAKIA when you make leonidas appear with only spear.
@@nandinhocunha440 Saved Europe? LoL. Dude the Spartans join the Persians years later and wreck Greece. Do some research instead of watching the 300 movie.
@@edgardeloera2874 Man i am from Greece and i know beter my story. Spartans take money from persians to fight Athens. Civil War you know. No to Join with Persians. Read the History.
@@maiqtheliar8089 My guess you didn't play the game decided to jump on the hate wagon. No surprise there. Its not wonder gamers are starting to considered mentally unstable.
You gotta remember, Abstergo is not only a "front" to the templar order but they are also a leading innovator of their respective economies. They were already making games and promotions that we ourselves saw in Black Flag. This may just be one of those creations. I mean seriously though.. Even if Odyssey doesn't have an extremely huge tether to AC lore, it definitely attracted us to it. Who doesn't enjoy the prospect of playing as a decedent of the ass kickin Leonidas. Ubisoft is taking huge strides to make their open world games a whole spectrum larger for their players, even going as far as to make their fictional, gavel wielding, corporate boogeyman seem believable.
Great, another 300 rip off. The thing is, I'm used to having my people portrayed as villains by now, but I find this extremely insulting, not to my people, but to the other brave Greeks that died that day along with the Spartans. They are given no recognition here, and they are treated as cowards, even though in reality they choose to stay behind on the last day with the Spartans. Their memory should be honored, not discarded.
People forget that the Spartans would declare open season on their helots (slaves/serfs) every autumn in a festival called the Crypteia. Spartan men were told to seek out and kill any helot they came across, and specifically targeted the strongest and smartest ones in order to eliminate any potential leaders in a slave revolt.
Well I don’t think they are portraying the others that fought with them as cowards. I see it as they were not professional soldiers, Spartans were warriors first. It’s not a slight against other Greeks but elevation of Sparta
And later join the Persians, very honorable. If you don't believe me go do some research instead of watching a glorified movie. Yes they were awesome warriors but honor is debatable.
Was expected to be disappointed in Assassin's Creed Odyssey after seeing how many franchises we ruined recently, Middle-Earth, Far Cry and the list goes on , but this game is beautiful looking and I like the story.
Lol probably not different at all actually. And the truth is the Spartans were not freedom fighters - their society was actually far less free than the Persian Empire. Their entire economy was supported by the hard labor of an enormous class of slaves called the Helots, who the Spartans would systematically slaughter in mass once a year to control their population and limit the threat of an uprising. The Battle of Thermopylae is a cool story - 300 Spartans really did battle a much larger Persian force (even if the movie and this game both grossly downplay how much help they had from other Greek forces) but it's getting kind of silly how folks romanticize Spartans as folk heroes because of the movie 300. People need to pull their heads out of their asses and stop taking everything they see in a movie as historically accurate.
Yeah the same. Romans would still have taken over. Or Carthage were the Romans not there. Get rid of those two, plunge Europe into the Dark Ages, and they still rise out of that.
Herodotos was famous for exagerating his tales. And by his pen the Spartan Myth as the greatest fighting force of the ancient world began. Spartan had much better poets and statesmen than fighters. They didnt even had the best fighters in Greece! For the best fighters of ancient Greece lived and trained on Argos.
Except that Herodotus wrote his tales according to info he acquired from witnesses throughout his travels, so he didn't have much to work on and took some liberties.
My friends, i have a major on Greek and Roman History. If you want to have a serious debate add me on WhatsApp , but if not, remove yourself from making ignorant observations please . You gain nothing from just telling im Wrong without any solid arguments
@@azazel166 as someone who is currently reading herodotus for his greek exam i can assure you that herodotus writes a lot about godly purpose and destiny and a lot of his sources are not direct witnesses
:))))) The armor wasn't made of adamantium my friend hahahahaha, this is bronze armor, bronze armor was weakest of them all(metal armor). Arrows can pierce through shields which are thicker than the armor you wear. Arrow who didn't pierce was because of deflection and angles in the armor(as in, not a direct hit, but sideways so it slides off the armor). A direct hit from an arrow would 100% mean penetration.
Their shields were highly effective at blocking arrows due to shape, and them being a thick piece of bronze with a wood back. This is the Iron Age of weapons, arrows would shred armor. Armor was used to keep grazes and give protection from non direct hits.
"Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. Remember why we died. For he did not wish tribute or song. Or monuments. No poems of war and valor. His wish was simple: "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope. Should any free soul come across that place. In all the countless centruies yet to be, may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones. Go tell the Spartans passing by, that here by Spartan lore we lie. And so my king died, and my brothers died. Barely a year ago. Long I pondered my King's cryptic talk of victory. Time has proven him wise. But from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, lay down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece, and the promise this country. Now here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateau, Xerses' hordes face obliteration! Just there the barbarians huddle. Sheer terror gripping tight. Their hearts with icy fingers knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! AAAAUUUUHHH! The enemy outnumber us a paltry 3 to 1. Good odds for any Greek. This day, we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine. GIVE THANKS MEN! TO LEONIDAS AND THE BRAVE 300! TO VICTORY!
It’s actually funny how much of a better true illustration of the battle than the film 300. How a game can be so much more gripping than a movie with actual actors
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Historically inaccurate. Spartans didn't wear armor, they wore leather underpants and rushed the Persian infantries with slo-mo elegance.
Chicken Mike this is true. I was there
Me too, I was the spear.
I was Leonidas' codpiece.
Ah I see you too watched the zack Snyder documentary.
@change Mymind
And you died like a Ragdoll.
Fun fact leonidas died before his hole army did and his remaining soldiers pushed the enemys back 4 times to try and get their kings body but they eventually were surrounded and killed
Persians always win.
@@cykacookietardovic659 They lose in Platea.
cykacookie tardovic tbf Sparta only had 300 in that battle and Persians had like 5000 including some of the immortals and Sparta still put up a good fight
@@cykacookietardovic659 no persians lost against Athens in war and Athens won the war against Persians and Xerxes died bcz he was killed by his bodyguard
cykacookie tardovic Persia Houghton Greece from about 499bc to 449bc the most intense fighting was the two Persian invasions first in around 492bc then again in about 480bc the Persians lost both times and ultimately they lost the entire war
Rest in Peace 700 Thespians, because very few still remember that you stood with the 300 Spartans until the very end on this Glorious Last Stand.
Lmao Ubisoft borrowed nearly everything from the movie 300 other than the no chest plates, and they forgot the most pivotal piece- the phalanx.
@@Eshayzbra96 lmao the movie borrowed nearly everything from history. Sounded dumb right? That's basically your comment.
@@ComeHonorBulge Wrong. It borrowed stuff from the graphic nivel by Frank Miller.
@@magnathrax7360 and Frank Miller's 300 is historical inspired/retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.
@@ComeHonorBulge Exactly. A retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae with a lot of historical liberties. Doesn't mean the comic or the movie are bad, but they're certainly not accurate to what actually happened. And, while this game does get right a bunch of stuff (for instance, how Leonidas Is clearly +50 years old), it also takes clear inspiration from 300, and still has inaccuracies.
Gets stabbed in the stomach, stands up and kills the king.
Such a bad ass
Which king? That wasn't Xerxes bro
Not king but high ranking officer.
Not to mention the arrows, but he did not kill the king Xerxes he killed a high ranked soldier.
Evan Hindle no that was just bad... I was expecting something more epic, more action, just more
Spartans were trained for such feats
Fun fact Spartans thought bows were for wimps and refused to use them
Gray wolf true fact
@@KKenji
Lol Long Range Ballistas!
XxxJim_ the_ ReaperxxX XD
if someone in the Spartan army had anything long range it was cause they were hired mercenary no full blooded Spartan even so much as thought of using long range equipment because they felt it was unmanly or dishonorable
True most of their light infantry, skirmishers and missile troops are either Spartan helots (serfs or slaves depending on how you look at it) or mercenaries. Full Spartan citizens fought as hoplites.
We interrupt assassins creed oddesey to bring you 300
Leave that to GamingSins to worry about
cant be mad to be honest, AC gave us so much eras, hey vikings are next they announced ragnarok. Rumors say feudal japan with samurais next!! what time to live :)
Nostalgic memories lmao Sucker Punch beat Ubisoft to it. Ghost of Tsushima is going to be the Assasins Creed: Japan that we wanted but Ubisoft eternally delays.
@Nostalgic memories do you mean Valhalla? And have they already made a game on Rome?
😂😂
Stabs Leonidas in the stomach
Leonidas *stands back up*
King: "I would like to apologize."
That wasn't a king m8
Not a king just a regular
@@manolis_kran9560 that wasn't xerxes?
@@e-1074 ofcourse not !
*"There's much to do. And many unknowns on our horizon"*
When you try to take command of the Adrestria and keep accidentally interacting with Herodotos
this line now gives me ptsd but in a good way
@@AvoidedOrc36584 yo faxs
Oh no this cursed line
CAPTAIN SALVAGE NEARBYE!
3:53 MADNESS ?? THIS IS SPARTAAAA !!!
Tonight we dine in the Hell
In the Underworld you buffoon... Hades is the God, like Zeus
Clearly, you did not watch '300'.
*tonight
What’s on the menu, dogshit?
Spartan meat
Three arrows to the body, a blade to the gut, getting LIFTED with the blade still in him...all without so much as a whimper or without shedding a tear. Way to take it like a man, Leonidas!
As much as I like the story in Odyssey it would have been cool to play Leonidas with the 300 through out the whole game
wait! that ain't Gerard Butler!!!!
Pradyumn Pathak right, historically Leonidise was 60yrs old.
damn someone beat me to it lol
It was an old Nicolas Cage all along
And this ain't Sparta
Josiah Godwin well he kinda did look 60
Spartans were the descents of hercules himself taught to never retreat, never to surrender, and taught that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory in his life. Spartans the greatest warriors the world has ever known. they either return to Sparta with their shields or upon them
If you think there are inaccuracies in this story just remember it’s Herodotus telling it...
Herodotos
@@ctechyid9018 ok necroposter
Fun fact: Leonidas was already 60 years old when he died in Thermopylae.
I felt sad when Leonidas watching his men dying one by one. I kinda felt it
"A spartan should never lose his shield in battle"
If a Spartan lose it shield it was a disappointment cuz the would never
@@J2cold4u well i guess leonidas and 80% of the royal guard was a disappointment
Edit: nvm almost all of the spartans in this game was terrible XD
"With it or on it"
@@MileRastovac also leonidas: ok let me throw it at the third guy and forget about it
Não era "qualquer" Espartano kkk
Era o Leônidas
This week is gunna be the longest week ever just because Odyssey comes out on Friday
I get it tomorrow
I get it tonight at 10
We get it tomorrow.. but it's gonna be the longest day ever now unfortunately
I get it tonight lol
comes out on the 4th
I know it's a game, but is bronze armour really that ineffective against arrows?
Arrows are deadly af. They could pierce a multiple layered shield
If the arrows are precise yes they are. Despite having inferior weapons to the Greeks, persian archers were notorious for their accuracy so watching this makes sense if they were hitting the Spartans in the face, neck, etc.
The armor was mostly to ward off grazing blows and the splinter from metal on metal. A direct shot from an arrow with sufficient velocity could nearly any piece of armor or shield, as demonstrated by the historical Battle of Agincourt where outnumbered English troops consisting largely of archers defeated a vastly superior French army of knights armed with the strongest armor and shields of the age. Only reason we don't use bows and arrows anymore is not because they are no longer effective in dealing death, but simply because bullets are FAR more effect.
Jason Rabeiro
Guns do not require training to use. Guns are much much much more precise from first shot from a complete novice as compared to a bow. Bullets are easier to carry and you can carry a lot more. You can fire bullet after bullet after bullet with just moving a finger, as compared to loading each arrow separately and then having to aim again. You can still fire a gun even if you miss a finger or two. After shooting 300 bullets you can still shoot 1000 more. After shooting 300 arrows, well let's just say your arm will fall off (you will hurt after shooting non-stop as well.. but you can last MUCH MUCH longer)
Armor was effective against arrows. That's why they made crossbows.
Wait... Xerxes wasn’t there to oversee Leonidas death?
He was
Nope, Xerxes never walked the battlefield himself, as opposed to what was shown in the movie 300
STAIN you would be piss off too if over 10000(estimated) of your mens were killed so I wouldn't say he was butt hurt more like he was mad that so much of his people were killed.
MuffinREpic More like 600,000 (600k) out of the 2million+ army of Persians died...
T3RM1NAT0R XII uhhh where did you get that number of 600k out of the 2 million died just asking ? Historically they usually exaggerate the numbers of their army back then. It also wasn't 300 spartan that held then back too just heads up not sure which record keeper wrote that unless you watched the movie 300.
Well at least the Spartans use armor and not just wearing underwear like some kind of idiots in battle.
@David -01 No, it would be suicidal.
Jason Grace But it's not working anyway xd arrows throw the chest of the breastplate wtf
Someone 1 no.
Some Vikings and Celts that could't afford armor choosed to go for the intimidation factor going in naked, but they would use shields, and of course were not entire armies lol
They did that to show that they didn’t give a shit about death....which would scare the enemy, the Spartans weren’t dumb
Someone 1 that’s what the Spartans also did
Disappointed that they didn't bring Gerald Butler to do Leonidas
The guy still sounds like him
@@IWU447 kinda
3:17 Herodotus trynna cop a feel
lol best comment!
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Leonidas gets shot with multiple arrows, and gets stabbed through the abdomen. Yet still stands to look his enemy in the eye and kills him before succumbing to his wounds. What a fuckin badass.
To all the people confused why Leonidas' armor was so weak against ranged fire:
Armor was mostly to ward off grazing blows and the splinter from metal on metal. A direct shot from an arrow with sufficient velocity could nearly any piece of armor or shield, as demonstrated by the historical Battle of Agincourt where outnumbered English troops consisting largely of archers defeated a vastly superior French army of knights armed with the strongest armor and shields of the age.
Only reason we don't use bows and arrows anymore is not because they are no longer effective in dealing death, but simply because bullets are FAR more effect.
But wait, the bows that the English used at Agincourt were longbows, weren't they? And those were actually kind of ridiculous with how powerful they were, right? Were the Persian bows at Thermopylae comparable?
@@primordialbias8711 You're right, they were far more powerful than Persian bows, but a Medieval Knight's steel plate armor was also far more durable than a bronze cuirass. The Persians grew their Empire on the strength of their archers and cavalrymen so I just to wanted to explain that their bows were definitely strong enough to pierce Greek armor.
Ah. Well, alright, that does make sense.
Thats a misconception. Armor was very effective for what it does. There are French accounts before even that battle that they waded through the English arrows like it was rain. They lost the battle of Agincourt not because of the archers killing them, but because of poor decisions and the terrain. The fact that armor was so good against arrows was why the French men at arms were overconfident in that first part in that battle.
Properly made armor will not be so vulnerable to arrows.
You seem like a nice dude, Jason. Believe me when I say this isn't personal.
But you're entirely wrong. The kind of bodily protection that 'mostly warded off grazing blows' would be in a whole different category than plate armor. It's what I'd categorically call 'Light' historical armor. We're talking anything from regular civilian fabric clothing, to light or untreated leather jacks, to other forms of light linen armor. Strong piercing thrusts generally pierce such light armor. Cuts were resisted to a moderate degree by this.
In a category of 'Medium'-ish armor I'd consider something like Gambeson, thick multi-layer linen clothing, and boiled or treated hardened leather, (which itself is fairly rare in the historical record). This would provide very good protection against cuts by hand-weapons, barring larger two-handed polearms, but would still potentially be vulnerable to be punched through by strong, supported thrusts. You'd be extremely surprised how a modern analogue, a simple winter coat, protects so well against cuts, and could even limit the effectiveness of a thrust.
In the 'Heavy' category I'd put maille, scale armor/llamelar, and plate. Even going as far back as bronze armor, this is generally all but impervious to cuts, which leave only the most superficial knicks and scratches on the surface. Typical hand-weapons generally do not pierce these without extreme force, and even when they do, most often than not they go in to a depth measured in no more than a few centimeters or an inch. These are best combated by circumventing the pierce altogether with blunt-trauma weapons, or by using a dedicated thick spiked weapon to try to punch into the armor and penetrate through it.
So no. Historical bronze cuirasses of this period were not 'for glancing blows'. If you know anything about bronze you'd know it can be and is (naturally) work-hardened, which can be done even cold, (unlike with iron/steel), which happens naturally as it's hammered out in the shape of the form of the muscle cuirasse. And, as we get further into history, the cuirasses get stronger and stronger. By the time of Agincourt, which you reference, damn near no human-powered weapon would get very far into a cuirasse with any ease at all. Late cuirasse developments saw the belly bowed/bulging in a semi-spherical shape which aided further in defence and also put distance between the metal and the man's mail or padding beneath, which meant that minor penetrations would be even *less* effective.
Now, as for what happened at Agincourt? Well, any astute student of history would learn that the atrocious weather conditions seriously bogged down the French cavalry and knights atop them. It rained a lot prior, and the conditions then in that region are the same now, you get deep, thick mud that creates suction when you try to pull your foot and walk out. In other words, for a man wearing an extra 60lbs of full-body armor, it would be exhausting to walk through. Scholars have surmised that at least some portion of the French cavalry, (the horses themselves, not the man), may not have had full-body protection, and the English rain of arrows was in truth far less likely to hurt the man as it was the horse. Horses whose speed and impetus was bogged down by the conditions. Dismounted knights then were also further bogged down by the conditions. And English archers there, being lightly armored and fleet of foot, could beat down, smother and overwhelm the knights by the time they'd reached them.
Furthermore, for your viewing pleasure, these videos. Absolutely no qualitative test today has ever shown that period plate armor, from any period, could be *easily* pierced by a typical bow's arrow or a crossbow's bolt *at any decent range beyond something like 20 yards or 30-ish feet*. No, not even those powerful English warbows. As you watch these, bear in mind that as I said, most cuirasses by the 14th c. onward are bowed at the belly, giving more space between the thickest part of the cuirasse and the user. At the time of Agincourt, they also wore mail beneath it.
An excellent cuirass completely shrugs off the arrow from a 120lb english longbow. - ruclips.net/video/Ej3qjUzUzQg/видео.html
Relatively cheapish reproduction of a historical plate against crossbows, including a heavy crossbow which requires a windlass to load. Shallow penetrations. - ruclips.net/video/XMT6hjwY8NQ/видео.html
One of the typical conclusions. - ruclips.net/video/D3997HZuWjk/видео.html
Crossbow, (which admittedly amounts to only an 80lb or so bow). - ruclips.net/video/gwKNBB9Ww2E/видео.html
Some good strong bows against what I genuinely presume, compared to what the above videos have shown, is a fairly cheap, soft-ish cuirass. Most of these penetrate less than an inch into the cuirass, which wouldn't even touch the mail yet due to it's bowled shape. - ruclips.net/video/KCE40J93m5c/видео.html
Another - ruclips.net/video/DCywaYlQxWE/видео.html
Here we have a crudely shaped, (looks nothing like any armor, it's cheap mild steel) hunk of metal fixed static onto a post (human bodies give to impact, they aren't braced static), performing the role of the period plate without proper heat treatment, and even then, only a handful of the arrows actually go far enough that they'd even touch the armor beneath it. They likely wouldn't have the energy to get through the mail. ruclips.net/video/q-Xp56uVyxs/видео.html
Generally speaking, in rebuttal to your claim about the effectiveness of armor and plate, by the mid-15th-to-16th century, plate armor was so damn effective at protection from any common blow that rich knights literally stopped carrying shields as the armor was the shield, instead opting for more potent two-handed weapons. That says a lot.
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Something of an ongoing pet peeve of mine is ubisoft's tendency to make everyone's voices even foreign character's feel forced. Like their really just tryin to over-emphasize the accent and completely ignore how well english everyone speaks with an extremely strong accent.
Personally, I'm just happy they didn't do what they did in Unity and gave everyone an English accent even though they're French.
They were trying to get greek voice actors so some of the accents my be legit
They want to make them sound like a greeks... Why people always complaining so much
qais zhafran Reyhan
Because they sound scotish.
They tried to show how a greek person speaks english,even though they exaggerated a bit.But i do find it a bit annoying myself as well
3:54
“That sounds like madness”
madness, madness?
THIS, IS , SPARTA!
This game was spot on about the history! Thank You for letting me see this!
"My Queen! My wife, my love"
I still get goosebumps when I hear or see that line. Probably the realist shit ever.
The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. His roar is long and loud.
rip off from lotr
he actual said something a warming about the future of greece
Leonidas's lasts words
@ 1:43 and then they passed into legend, a day the world would remember.
So is leonidas really alexios/ kassandra's grandfather because they keep denying their spartan heritage
Yes
You can deny but blood is blood
So leonidas was king and alexios/kassandra are the heritage so technically alexios or kassandra are supposed to be the king or queen
Santiago Morales no because in the first cutscene of the game Leonidas said”I would have liked to go fishing with my son” this could possibly show myrene (alexios/kassandra’s mother) might be the last born there is a reason nikoloas isn’t the king but a general,and he was still just a general before nikoloas and myrene split. So alexios or kassandra do have royal blood but do not have the right to sit on the throne,also I think leonidas son may have died because no one mentions myrene’s older brother and in Sparta the people sometimes pick new rulers if a bloodline died and they wouldn’t have given it to myrene after her brother died because she left Sparta and her children disgraced Sparta.
Lived as a king, and died as a Spartan... but not without a fight.
Wasnt Leonidas one of the first to die in the final battle?
Yeah, the Spartans fought the Persians for his body until they all perished.
Someone watched the Extra Credit episodes
In that battle no, after the last stand of the 300, the remainder of the spartan military fought Persia for the remains.
Most likely also where the phrase tooth and nail comes from... Herodotus stated that the Spartans fought ‘tooth and claw’ for Leonidas’ body
Sadly he was he got hit early in the fight with a arrow in the throat when they got surrounded. The rest of the spartans fought the pesians to defend his body until they all died in a rain of arrows.
1:28 He should have used second wind + battlecry of ares :P
"the back of a spartan warrior never touches the ground, even in death a spartan gives his face in combat" -Kratos
they died for doing something great you gotta give them that even when the odds were against them and the other poeple who fought beside them
Nahhh they were assholes ... 100 or so years after this sparta took side of persia and destroyed Athens...and spartans as a nation were assholes ...they were the one with slaves on the other hands persians had zero slaves... Movie 300 and this game is totally based on how spartans viewed Spartan...not actual history
@@randomstuffs844 i supposed u r from iran, otherwise i dont see a reason to hate spartans
@@randomstuffs844 300 movie and this game is based on the American eyes not the Spartans
There’s nothing honorable about war
@@randomstuffs844 Persians had slaves a part of the Persian army were Greek that were defeated
THIS IS SPARTA !!!!
Dienekes reminds me of that spartan from 300 that went berserk when his son died
Its kinda wierd but in the movie 300
I think dienekes was stelios on that movie
So, the Spear of Leonidas is an Isu artefact. In AC origins aya said that the first hidden blade that was given to bayek killed xerxes. So maybe that means that the Spear will become the blade at some po int.
Lno 1 No it won‘t. That wasn‘t Xerxes, he didn‘t die in battle
Darius killed Xerxes with the first hidden blade, and you meet Darius in one of the DLC's
@Pike, one of Odyessy's DLCs or do you mean when Altair visits Darius' tomb?
@@KTA1sVidsandFacts
He means odyssey, the legacy of the first blade is a 3 part episode about darius the first guy who used the original hidden blade
@alexgamer 155 thanks, I was not sure what he meant. I still find it annoying that they retconed the Assassin creed's lore with Origins, since it was Darius who originally had the assassin's symbol way before "the hidden ones".
time to learn some ancient greek history people..ehh..Leonidas statue stands proudly in contemporary greece in Sparti ,Lakonia and in Thermopylai in the old National road to Lamia ...
I know its historically inacurate as he was one of the first to die... But... Goddamn THAT WAS BADASS!
Get in there Kratos
*Tonight we shall dine in hell*
Ah Herodotos… I read his book. It was a difficult one, but boy did I enjoy it.
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🎶May I Stand unshaken,
Amidst,
amidst the crash of worlds 🎶
RIP Arthur morgan
😣
Dienekes seemed like such a chill dude. Respect to him.
Contrary to popular belief, the 300 Spartans did not face Xerxes' army alone. King Leonidas certainly did not dismiss all others because he saw fear in their eyes. Upon being betrayed by Ephialtes, and realizing they could not win, Leonidas did send the majority of the Greek forces home, but around 2,000 others did stay in one last glorious stand with his Spartans.
Jeff Galef talk about bravery. All the Greeks that stayed with the Spartans knew it would be a fight to the death but they stayed anyway.
Yep. They only retreated because Leonidas ordered them to, because while the pass was certainly lost, Greece still needed a military and since the Greeks were in heavy fighting for 2 days prior to the final day, a lot of whom he sent home were pretty much veterans at this point and were pivotal to removing Xerxes from Greece. Thankfully Themistocles was still around too.
Not 2000, 1000. 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians....
Themistocles gets very little love. He was the Leonidas of the sea. His actions in the bay were every bit as important as the Spartan anchored holding of the pass. And then, a year later, when the Spartans were working over the Persians on land, Themistocles was at sea spanking Xeres fleet, forcing him to break out and run back for Persia never to be heard from again.
jimakisspd, the numbers are debated. Could of been 1000, could of been more.
Anyone else notice how when Leonidas was hit with that last spear his stumble was the same pattern ezio had in the beginning of revelations? Even looks like him a bit too, huh.
1:17 persian friendly fire
Lol leonidas stood up like "you should've gone for the head"
I'd like to point out that 700 Thespians and 400 Thebes did not flee the battle as Leonidas commanded but fight until death alongside the 300 spartans
R.I.P. History.
0:35 wait woman have balls?
I would like to see a movie about the Battle of Platea. THAT was a massive battle and had more importance than the Battle of the Thermopylae
1:09 I can hear Supa Hot Fire
Anubis OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
There were 2 kings in Sparta. The oracle at Delphi made the prophecy that Sparta would lose one of its kings, apparently.
A bit inaccurate as in history leonidas was not the last one standing
I am from Greece. And i like to read History very much. You right
But it's still badass
neither he has a spear of an ancient civilization and half of its dna
By traitor's hand, secret passage, to their land
Know his name, know his shame will last forever
Legends never die
Sabaton echos in my mind with the flashbacks and the conquest battles... And it gets me fuckin PUMPED!
At least leonidas is not a woman or a trans
Ha! You hate having a female protagonist. Sexist prick!
And what exactly does that have to do with anything?
@@astrolynxical sssshhhh
A Ghost Without a Past i think he wants to say that leonidas is better than alexander because alexander is bisexual lmao
terence abella
*was
Also sexuality and gender are two different things
I would like to point out that the MAJOR HISTORICAL MISTAKE by ubisoft is that A spartan could never abandon his shield on battle. The shield was a family relic. A spartan who returned home without his shield should abandon his city and his citizen rights.
The very king of sparta SHOULD HAVE A SHIELD. Its like big MALAKIA when you make leonidas appear with only spear.
Give thanks men to leonidas and the brave 300
They saved Europe and now the leaders of the countries fucked it up
Aroooooooo! Aroooooooo! AROOOOOOOO!
@@nandinhocunha440 Saved Europe? LoL. Dude the Spartans join the Persians years later and wreck Greece. Do some research instead of watching the 300 movie.
@@edgardeloera2874 Man i am from Greece and i know beter my story. Spartans take money from persians to fight Athens. Civil War you know. No to Join with Persians. Read the History.
Wasn't just 300.. more like several thousand.
3:53 Madness ....
*THIS ... IS ..... SPARTA !*
armour for swords
chain mail for arrows
its that simple people
No... You couldn't be more wrong. Chainmail - slashing. - Armour - Arrows/Stabbing.
Regardless of the inaccuracy, it's still undeniably badass
Bpught Origins cheap on a whim and loved it after becoming jaded with the series. Odyssey looks great and am looking forward to Friday.
I advise ya not to buy it.Its damn not worth it
What about it do you dislike?
@@gregoreisenhorn5093 The Story.The Story is literally retarted and rather rushed.And the combat...Same as Origins,couldve been updated a bit
@@maiqtheliar8089 My guess you didn't play the game decided to jump on the hate wagon. No surprise there. Its not wonder gamers are starting to considered mentally unstable.
@@ericnick4498 Well you guessed wrong because i did play it.Its only my opinion anyway so ...
2:35-2:53 when your younger brother eat candy and he ain’t sharing, so you snatch one candy bar from him.
How the hell this is assassin creed?
Asking the real question
Exactly what I thought
Yea I questioned myself through this entire game but still it's cool I like the Leonidas flashback that's my favorite part
hehe, a new twist (just as Origins) but a very entertaining game at least.
You gotta remember, Abstergo is not only a "front" to the templar order but they are also a leading innovator of their respective economies.
They were already making games and promotions that we ourselves saw in Black Flag.
This may just be one of those creations. I mean seriously though..
Even if Odyssey doesn't have an extremely huge tether to AC lore, it definitely attracted us to it.
Who doesn't enjoy the prospect of playing as a decedent of the ass kickin Leonidas.
Ubisoft is taking huge strides to make their open world games a whole spectrum larger for their players, even going as far as to make their fictional, gavel wielding, corporate boogeyman seem believable.
Persian commander looks cool
Great, another 300 rip off. The thing is, I'm used to having my people portrayed as villains by now, but I find this extremely insulting, not to my people, but to the other brave Greeks that died that day along with the Spartans. They are given no recognition here, and they are treated as cowards, even though in reality they choose to stay behind on the last day with the Spartans. Their memory should be honored, not discarded.
Spartans are considered far cooler nowadays. The other Greeks, not so much. I’d imagine most people thought it was only the 300 Spartans.
Yes, that's the sad part about all of this.
People forget that the Spartans would declare open season on their helots (slaves/serfs) every autumn in a festival called the Crypteia. Spartan men were told to seek out and kill any helot they came across, and specifically targeted the strongest and smartest ones in order to eliminate any potential leaders in a slave revolt.
Agreed. the Spartans can kiss my ass
Well I don’t think they are portraying the others that fought with them as cowards. I see it as they were not professional soldiers, Spartans were warriors first. It’s not a slight against other Greeks but elevation of Sparta
Fun fact
Leonidas was 60 years old in his final battle
Soooooooo.... Leonidas is Nicholas Cage?
This is where we fight and this is where they die!!! -leonidas
Just like the movie 300, they died with honour
300 is shit
And later join the Persians, very honorable. If you don't believe me go do some research instead of watching a glorified movie. Yes they were awesome warriors but honor is debatable.
honour my ass please go read a book
What do you mean by 'just like the movie 300'? That entire sequence is based off that movie!
+Rittiron Sontimaung you should go and read a book as well
Go tell the Spartans, Stranger passing by...that here by Spartan law....we lie.
1:30 this is greeks
Leonidas is a straight up BOSS, just stood back up and stabbed the living hell out of the other guy
Leonidas IS THE REAL GOD!!
god___of___war the_november_boy no he is The Spartan
He was better than a god.
R.I.P Son Of The Lion. To a hero🏹. Long Live The King
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Herodotos actually existed he was a greek historian that told the legend of the 300 Spartans (his real name is spelled herodotus)
I'm hyped af
Was expected to be disappointed in Assassin's Creed Odyssey after seeing how many franchises we ruined recently, Middle-Earth, Far Cry and the list goes on , but this game is beautiful looking and I like the story.
2:34 You should've gone for the head m8. Same mistake as thor in infinity war.
It's a video game. No video game ever gets history 100% accurate.
hmm meh 300's was better
This was our lesson at school last Friday (about leonidas and the 300 spartans)
imagine what Europe would be like today if leonidas hadn't have battled the Persians.
Pry not that different actually.
Won't do any different, really. Some cultures would be different, yes, but for most parts, no.
Lol probably not different at all actually. And the truth is the Spartans were not freedom fighters - their society was actually far less free than the Persian Empire. Their entire economy was supported by the hard labor of an enormous class of slaves called the Helots, who the Spartans would systematically slaughter in mass once a year to control their population and limit the threat of an uprising.
The Battle of Thermopylae is a cool story - 300 Spartans really did battle a much larger Persian force (even if the movie and this game both grossly downplay how much help they had from other Greek forces) but it's getting kind of silly how folks romanticize Spartans as folk heroes because of the movie 300. People need to pull their heads out of their asses and stop taking everything they see in a movie as historically accurate.
TheFlyingCougar but you gotta admit, these Spartans are badass.
Yeah the same. Romans would still have taken over. Or Carthage were the Romans not there. Get rid of those two, plunge Europe into the Dark Ages, and they still rise out of that.
Shout out to my Thespians One day People will learn to know you died with the spartans that day
Greeks will rise again...
No. They won't.
Persians did nothing wrong
CyPrUs-_-KiLLeR-HD 01B lol Greece is fucked
good....u can pay debts then...
We will kick this Godcursed goverment out of our country
Brings a tear to my eye!die for something ideal!!!that was the spirit of ancient greeks!
Herodotos was famous for exagerating his tales. And by his pen the Spartan Myth as the greatest fighting force of the ancient world began. Spartan had much better poets and statesmen than fighters. They didnt even had the best fighters in Greece! For the best fighters of ancient Greece lived and trained on Argos.
KHNUM you sound exaggerated yourself
Ok the Spartans were the greatest land based fighting force of their time, that’s not debatable.
Except that Herodotus wrote his tales according to info he acquired from witnesses throughout his travels, so he didn't have much to work on and took some liberties.
My friends, i have a major on Greek and Roman History. If you want to have a serious debate add me on WhatsApp , but if not, remove yourself from making ignorant observations please . You gain nothing from just telling im Wrong without any solid arguments
@@azazel166 as someone who is currently reading herodotus for his greek exam i can assure you that herodotus writes a lot about godly purpose and destiny and a lot of his sources are not direct witnesses
that sounds like madness, not bravery! "MADNESS" this is Sparta!
How did the arrows go through their armor?
:))))) The armor wasn't made of adamantium my friend hahahahaha, this is bronze armor, bronze armor was weakest of them all(metal armor). Arrows can pierce through shields which are thicker than the armor you wear. Arrow who didn't pierce was because of deflection and angles in the armor(as in, not a direct hit, but sideways so it slides off the armor). A direct hit from an arrow would 100% mean penetration.
Yeah it is bronze armor but Spartans had better equipment than the Persians.
Now it makes more sense :P
Their shields were highly effective at blocking arrows due to shape, and them being a thick piece of bronze with a wood back. This is the Iron Age of weapons, arrows would shred armor. Armor was used to keep grazes and give protection from non direct hits.
Just because the armour was bronze doesn't mean its made out of bronze armour you fucking idiot.
"Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. Remember why we died. For he did not wish tribute or song. Or monuments. No poems of war and valor. His wish was simple: "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope.
Should any free soul come across that place. In all the countless centruies yet to be, may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones. Go tell the Spartans passing by, that here by Spartan lore we lie. And so my king died, and my brothers died.
Barely a year ago. Long I pondered my King's cryptic talk of victory. Time has proven him wise. But from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, lay down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece, and the promise this country. Now here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateau, Xerses' hordes face obliteration!
Just there the barbarians huddle. Sheer terror gripping tight. Their hearts with icy fingers knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! AAAAUUUUHHH!
The enemy outnumber us a paltry 3 to 1. Good odds for any Greek. This day, we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine. GIVE THANKS MEN! TO LEONIDAS AND THE BRAVE 300! TO VICTORY!
Wow, wtf happened to assassin's Creed? Smfh
Whats wrong with it? I enjoyed it more than most AC games.
@@ZanarGaming That it's not about assassins, it's about Greek fuxking warriors
@@_jimmythesaint Because this was before a brotherhood was even established, 200 years before Origins
@@abdulbah2176 and to me that's retarded, might as well just play ryse, or something, but it was a good game, but nothing felt assassin like
Change happened.
It’s actually funny how much of a better true illustration of the battle than the film 300. How a game can be so much more gripping than a movie with actual actors