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500,000 orcs vs 300 spartans

arnoriansoldier
The Shire

May 4 2011, 10:15pm

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who would win?


Vangalad
Lorien


May 4 2011, 10:19pm

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This is Sparta! [In reply to] Can't Post

The lazy orcs have no chance against the courageous Spartans.


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Wraith Buster
Gondor


May 4 2011, 10:22pm

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That's a lot of orcs... [In reply to] Can't Post

That many Uruk-Hai would win for sure. They are a lot more intimidating than orces filth. Smile

In this case, though probably spartans.

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Donry
Tol Eressea


May 5 2011, 12:57am

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this would be over quickly.....

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glorinfidell
Bree


May 5 2011, 5:29pm

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At first I thought you meant spartans from the video game Halo! [In reply to] Can't Post

 


Idril Celebrindal
Tol Eressea


May 5 2011, 6:00pm

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Go tell the Spartans, passers by ... [In reply to] Can't Post

... That here obedient to their law we lie

Although eventually defeated by the orcs and wiped out to a man, the Spartans managed to hold the pass at Thermopylae against the forces of Mordor long enough for the rest of the Greek city-state armies to safely retreat. The Corsair fleet was later routed at the battle of Salamis, freeing the Peleponnesian peninsula from the dominion of Sauron!


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Patty
Immortal


May 5 2011, 6:40pm

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the battlefield would be even uglier than usual.

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Darkstone
Immortal


May 5 2011, 8:12pm

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If only Xerxes had listened to XenArtemisia, Warrior Princess! / [In reply to] Can't Post

 

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TheNazgul
Rivendell


May 7 2011, 4:29am

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but thats only because the graphic novel the movie 300 is based of was written by Frank Miller

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sevilodorf
Tol Eressea


May 11 2011, 3:23am

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Gotta go with the orcs [In reply to] Can't Post

Sheer overwhelming numbers.

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Eruonen
Half-elven


May 26 2011, 6:30pm

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Same result as history.... [In reply to] Can't Post

Spartans would only have a chance if they were at
Thermopylae....plus, there were more than 300 Greeks at the battle...however, they could hold the pass quite a while if they took care to keep the secret way around guarded. But, in the end, fatigue and losses would overwhelm them. Orcs would not pull back as much as the Persians.

Caught on open ground, the Spartans would be slaughtered.


(This post was edited by Eruonen on May 26 2011, 6:31pm)


AncalagontheBlack
Rohan

Dec 6 2013, 12:04am

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