Sparta was more than an army of super warriors

Re:Sparta was more than an army of super warriors by myfartsarefoul on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:55PM (#28711819)

Are the battle outcomes fair comparisons? What if they had great warriors but poor decision makers? Could they have fought poorly matched battles for the sake of conserving resources, etc?

I don’t care about Sparta one way or another. But simply “looking at numbers” can be deceiving.

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Re:Sparta was more than an army of super warriors by kelnos on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:43PM (#28712636)

Does it matter, though? A loss is a loss. It doesn't matter if they lost because their warriors were weak, or if their leaders were poor strategists. They still lost, and a big part of the mythos around Sparta (at least to me) is that they were a city of strong warriors who won most of their battles.

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