User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/Utter noob's season 3 REVEALED!/@comment-5078776-20130101051102/@comment-5078776-20130102174713

The Second Macedonian-Roman war used hopilites, which function in the same way asthe Spartan of Sparta. So it really isn't that much different. Not to mention, these are techinilgically inferior hopilites.