Spartan Phalanx

Example of how the phalanx works from the movie 300.

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[Astafar13]

@1olddavid No. They were called The Immortals because it was an army of 10,000 elite soldiers and whenever one was killed, seriously wounded, or sick he would be immediately replaced with a new man. That was the unit was always kept at 10,000 soldiers.

[sultankraver]

@1olddavid

yes thats why mobility prevailed in the battle of pydna

[Knightman963]

1:03 COME AT ME 

[MischiefHazelFoxx]

-__- my boy friend is using this as motivation for his Zombie vs Human war smh...he's a human and every one else is a zombie smh...I wish him luck lol

[Edge0fPain]

I thought the Spartans had very long spears and the Phalanx went up in layers?

[devesdadrunk]

@Yora21 Try telling your commander that and you would have nothing to fear from the phalanx. He would kill you himself.

[BaronCarmine]

@jamestaylor94b If you take historical films from Hollywood seriously, you're either an airhead or don't give a shit for further research.

[jamestaylor94b]

300 is a piece of hollywood-made bullshit compared with the real past, honorful soldiers and a simple and plain life. it should be forbidden as its a serious attempt to pollute the spartan heritage. and thats not right.

[Yora21]

And this is an example of how phalanxes do NOT work!

You don't run into the enemies shields, because they have spears that would kill the first row that is charging in. And nobody would want to be in that first row.

[gerian001]

@MistaKilljoy Indeed. as if they never died.

[MistaKilljoy]

@Astafar13 Don't forget that they also picked up the dead body so that the battlefield wouldn't have a single immortal laying around.