User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-4661256-20120324010403/@comment-2006360-20120324125907

Either way, there's a difference between killing a lion when, at the first sign of kingly blood, 20 or so arrows enter the lion, and when you're fighting a bronze-clad Spartan with iron spear and sword, with everybody you'd expect to save your hide busy fighting someone else.