Originally posted by Newjak
So basically you come in here and state they have Superhuman strength. Yet besides some spear throw and amputated limbs I have seen nothing to suggest they are above human strength, in fact Leonidas was fairly easily overpowered by someone who did. Hector managed to trade blows with Achilles and not get shoved back wards.As for the I'm sorry it's an expression
No idea why DDM won't give you exacts, but the things I recall.
Leonidas/Spartans:
- One of them (Leonidas?) threw a heavy spear an extremely long distance. Looked to be easily over 150 meters, which breaks the javelin throwing record and that's a much lighter projectile made for flight, not battle.
- 300 of them stopped a running mob of what looked like thousands.
- When they shoved back with their shields after they stopped the Persian infantry, they sent the Persians flying.
-Leonidas easily cut through a man's thigh and sent him up flying
-Leonidas traded and blocks blows with that ogre-man. That guy certainly has super-human strength. He at least sent one Spartan flying up and back a good 20 feet with a kick and he easily picked up and tossed Leonidas with one arm.
Now you can argue the semantics of what "super human" means, but Leonidas is clearly above peak human.
Achilles:
-Only thing that really stands out in super-human strength is when he cut the golden statue.
But I could be forgetting other scenes. Achilles is often wanked in here though.