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Hoplite video (long) - what do you guys think - hoplite123 - 05-23-2011
hello
I would like to apologize ahead of time to any of you that might think this is stupid and a waste of time. But i felt that the hoplite was mis represented here, and would like the opinion of people far more knowledgeable than myself.
http://youtu.be/mNj5HiCPx1I
was all the hoplite gear accurate? what about how he used the weapons?
Re: what do you guys think - Cheyenne - 05-24-2011
I have a feeling this link may be a trojan or malware...
I didn't click on it, but it looks like a suspicious link
Re: what do you guys think - Cheyenne - 05-24-2011
Looks like a suspicious link to me
Re: what do you guys think - Redguru - 05-24-2011
The video is over two hours long. Maybe if it were broken up some, it would be better.
Re: what do you guys think - Redguru - 05-24-2011
The video is over two hours long. Maybe if it were broken up some, it would be better.
Re: what do you guys think - M. Demetrius - 05-24-2011
I was bold, trusting in my anti-virus software, and watched part of the video. He was basically saying how iron rods with one point sharpened were superior to throwing knife-looking weapons. I didn't recognize the Japanese words he used for them.
But they both amounted to darts. They stuck in wood, but not impressively. A good aspis would have caught them all. Never got to see the combat promised.
The warrior vs warrior combat has been discussed elsewhere, and to take a single hoplite from his phalanx and pit him against a trained assasin, is just silly. A hundred ninjas vs a hundred hoplites is a totally different thing, regardless. The hoplites knew how to deal with missile attacks. The ninjas weren't really front line infantry. Who cares, is the question that came to mind.
I didn't get a virus, I think, but what are all these Greek-looking horses marching across the bottom of my screen?? 8) I didn't watch but a few minutes of it. The cost in megabytes seemed extreme.
Re: what do you guys think - Dithrambus - 05-24-2011
The link is fine, my security would have flagged it if not. The video is however much too long to sift through, from what I saw the aspis seemed about the right size, the curaiss looked a bit silly though. We have discussed the ninja vs hoplite nonsense here before, someone commented something like 'it's simple, hoplite falls asleep, ninja kills hoplite while he is sleeping'.
Re: what do you guys think - hoplite123 - 06-03-2011
Its just a youtube vid, wont have any viruses.
Re: what do you guys think - hoplite123 - 06-03-2011
It was broken down into four separate videos, but these two are around 40 minute long. If your interested in watching them, just search "spartan throned" in youtube.
Re: what do you guys think - hoplite123 - 06-03-2011
well yeah, in the end its a pointless question. They never faced each other in history, and are far too separated, time wise. But I think its entertaining concept. At least fun to debate about
Re: what do you guys think - hoplite123 - 06-03-2011
but then again the hoplite would be with an army, hardly easy to get at, even for a ninja. The whole point is, what would happen if a samurai or ninja fought a hoplite. The ninja and samurai have superior steel weapons, but can the aspis make up for the hoplites inferior weapons?