Right now, we are going into the Big, Bad, and Deadliest Arena, to answer the Question, Who...Is...Deadliest? Today in our Tournament, are putting together the leaders of the greatest suicide missions of the ancient world up against each other in a duel to the death. Now, let us begin!
Hannibal Barca[]
History[]
Born in the City of Carthage in ancient Africa, Hannibal lead the carthaginians into war against the greatest
Hannibal Barca
Born
247 BCE
Died
183 BCE
Weight
160 LBS
Height
5'8"
Origin
Ancient Carthage
empire at his time, The Romans. after starting the Seccond Punic War, Hannibal lead his troops into Spain and Gaul territory, recruting barbaric troops to fight with him. As he led the troops into the famous, "Crossing of the Alps" Hannibal went to war with the romans, but ultimently, his campaign ended in a crushing defeat by the hands of the Romans.
Big or Bad?[]
Now, after learning about this warrior, its time to see, is he a Powermaniac that earns him a high rating on Big, or is he a Phyco-killer that kills people and enjoys watching them suffer that would arn them a high rating on Bad?
Hannibal got a 6 on the Big scale due to the fact that he wanted to crush the Romans, and he let nothing stand in his way, not even the largest mountain range in Europe
Hannibal earned a 4 on the Bad scale due to the fact that although he did kill thousands of Romans, he never tortured any. but, he did enjoy watching Romans die.
King Leonidas[]
History[]
Born a brutal spartan warrior, Leonidas was trained to be a part of the Spartan army and to become a super
King Leonidas
Born
circa 540 BCE
Died
480 BCE
Weight
210 LBS
Height
5'9"
Origin
Greek City-State of Sparta
soldier, like every spartan male that survived training was forced to be. But as his father died, he became king of Sparta, and durring the Seccond Persian Invasion of Greece, he played a key role. Marching into the Straits of Thermopyle, Leonidus encountered the half a million Persians, as his men retreated, Leonidus and 300 of his best trained soldiers, stayed back, and were all masacured.
Big or Bad?[]
Now, after learning about this warrior, its time to see, is he a Powermaniac that earns him a high rating on Big, or is he a Phyco-killer that kills people and enjoys watching them suffer that would arn them a high rating on Bad?
Leonidas earned a 5 on the Big scale because although he was a humble king, durring times of war, his warriors instict would be unleashed, which brought fourth the rise of myths the he was the son of Hercules.
Leonidas earned a 4 on the bad scale because although he didnt enjoy watching his enemies die, he himself was a war machine thhat could masacure any who opposed him.
Weapons[]
Short Range[]
Hannibal Barca brings the legendary Falcata to the table, the blade responible for killing thousands of Romans
and forced his enemies to thiken their sheilds by 50%
King Leonidas slashes back with the Xyphos, the spartan short sword that can slice through armor and chop off Persian limbs
My personal edge goes to Hannibal with the falcata due to the fact that his has a imfamous reputation of brutaly killing thousands, and that its shape allows maximum damage at all angles
Leonidas brings the quick and fast dealer of death, the Dory. One of the most common weapons handeled by the Spartans when they needed to get the job done quickly
Hannibal brings back the Sarrisa, the 25 foot spear used in phalanx formation made to skewer Romans on its bronze blade.
My personal edge, the sarrisa is deadly, but can only be used when your enemy is 25 feet away, whereas the Dory can kill fron 6 feet or less, giving the user more control.
Long Range[]
Hannibal brings the heat on Leonidas with the Carthaginian Sling, the rock throwing, bone breaking, sling can kill a man with one blow if used right
Leonidus comes back with the Javelin, a weapon used by the entire world, and has stood the test of time by killing all who opose it.
My personal edge goes to the Javelin, although the sling can break bones, thats all it can do, whereas the Javelin can penetrate armor and can give you a sure kill
Special[]
In this fight, Leonidas resurects the weapon that gave the spartans thier imfamous reputation, the Aspis. the 4 foot spartan shield that can be used for deflecting and smashing. in spartan culture, if you lost your shield, you were a discrase
Smashing back, Hannibal brings the Soliferum, a Javelin on steroids that could penetrate armor and was even more deadly on horseback
My personal edge goes to the Aspis, while the Soliferum is deadly, the Aspis gives you the option of deflecting and destroying.
Melee[]
Hannibal slashes Leonidas with a blade made specificly for killing in hand to hand combat, the Carthaginian Dagger, a 15 inch blade that just abour rivals the Falcata itself in killing power
Leonidas returns the favor with nome other than Agoge, spartan fighting style and training that pushed thier bodies to the limits until they became a super soldier.
My personal edge goes to the dagger, while Agoge can give you a black eye, the dagger can sctualy kill you with one blow.
Armour[]
Leonidas comes into battle with the Aspis and Musculatus Breastplate, and for his infantry, the Aspis and Linothorax armour, this is the stuff that made the spartans the tanks of the ancient world.
Hannibal marches in with the Carthaginian shield, a 5½ foot rectangular shield based off of the romans. and on his body, he wears the Musculatus breastplate and for his infantry, chainmail armour used durring the invasion of the Romans.
My personal edge goes to both of them. while they both have Musculatus Breastplates, the Carthaginian shield offers more protection, but the Linothorax can withstand more blows.
Notes[]
This will be a 5 on 5 battle on a mountainside in the Alps, complete with snow, cliffs, and below freezing climates.
on Leonidas' side, there will be 4 spartan hoplites with one Aspis and Linothorax coat. they will be carrying one Dory, one Xyphos, 2 Javelins, and each one trained in Agoge. Leonidas will be on foot with one Aspis and Musculatus breastplate. He will be carrying one Xyphos, one Dory, and is trained in Agoge. All warriors will wear a Hoplite helmet.
On Hannibals side, there will be 4 Libyan Spearmen, all wearing chainmail and carrying a Carthaginian shield. each one will be armed with one sling with 3 rocks, 3 Soliferum, one Sarrisa, and one dagger. Hannibal will be riding an Elephant (the elephant will not fight in the battle, it is just used as transportation) wearing Musculatus Armour and carrying a Carthaginian sheild. he will be armed with one Falcata, one Sarrisa, and 5 Soliferum. All units will be wearing a Domed helmet.
Voting Ends: TBA
Next week on the Big, the Bad, and the Deadliest: B.C. Tournament; Julius Caesar; the roman member of the senate that sent Rome into Battle against the Gauls vs. Sargon the Great; emporer of the Akkad empire, and led the conquest of the Summerian City-States
The Alps, a snowy, unrelentles, cold hard killer in itself, catches itself in one of the coldest winters to have ever exsisted at the time. the wind howled and the mountains' steep cliff groaned as Hannibal, the mighty and fearce Carthaginian warlord marched through the barin landscape with what was left of his army, that is, the part of his army that hasnt died from the cold. Frozen and shivering, Hannibal Barca and his army had marched for miles on end. Marcus Levarius, a Roman traitor that went to Carthage, and joined the army, sputtered through the only part of his mouth that hadent caught frostbite. He bundled himself up in his chainmail, and held his Carthaginian sheild infront of his face to block the snow, while pointing his Sarissa up. Another infantryman, Larophares, was in the back of the 4 man phalanx, marched along the very edge of the cliff, constantly getting closer and closer to the edge. Narmeratep, a Libyan warrior that was pulled into the army as Hannibals conquest moved forward. The last infantryman, Hartessus, held his shield close to get warm, and he held his arms in close, he was in the front of the Phalanx, and he knew that today, he would die, either from the cold, or the enemy approtching.
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King Leonidas and his army of Hoplites had spent a month in this terrain, as a training exersize. they had lost about three-fourths of thier army to the cold, and harsh climate, and Twelve of the Spartans had gained sickness and stayed back at camp. It was definatly an exersize gone terribly wrong. it was the middle of the summer, and yet it was the coldest it could possibly get. King Leonidas and his army had experianced snow like this before back in Sparta, but nothing to this degree. Leonidas and his army were all holding thier Aspis abpve thier head, so they dont get pelted with the sub-zero snowflakes. But it didnt help much. being made of metal, the shield had turned just as cold at the weather outside. the 70 year old Leonidas had experianced pain like this on the battlefeild, but in his head the phrase kept ringing "This is one enemy you can beat" as they marched forward. Hercilium, a new Spartan to the army, as well as everyone else, couldnt stand the weather. having no protection on his arms, his fingers had caught frostbite and were close to falling off. Oxedus, a hoplite that had been in the army for about a year now, had been misbehaving, and was sent on this expedition to be made a better person. Along with the other two, Jason was part of the army, for about 12 years, but he never progressed in streigth, due to a disformation in his right leg that his mother hid from the preist to save his life. The last hoplite was Hermaria, a new man in the army, that had progresses quickly and greatly, he was one of the best men on this team.
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Hannibal marched along a ledge about 13 feet wide, on his left, a steep, icy, mountainside that wasnt even worth climbing, and on the right, a sheer drop off that and object dropped 2 minuites ago probably still hasnt reached the bottom. either way, they were stuck on the ledge, with nothing to but continue moving forward. Hannibal rocked back and forth on his Elephant as it took its mighty steps, shaking the moutain, cracking the ice. but finnaly, after 3 hours of walking, the elephant gave a final mighty heave, and dropped to the ground. The ground shook and the mountain moaned as Hannibal stared up the side of the moutain, noticing a wave of snow plummeting towards him.
Larophares, also noticing Hannibal's situation, Charged towards him, screeming, "Hannibal Barca! Jump!" Hannibal, struggling to get out of the hold of the Saddle of the elephant, followed Larophares instructions and jumped, breaking free of the saddles grip. Larophares continued charging as he stood to the left of Hannibal, with his shield infront, hopefully blocking any snow that threatined Hannibal's safety. They jogged out of the way of the charging wave of snow headed down the mountain. Larophares tured, seeing the elephant as it took large, deep breaths, then glanced at Hannibal. Hannibal glanced down at his feet, noticing on his hip, his sword had gone missing. Larophares noticed it too, then charged towards the elephant, grabbing the fallen sword, as the wave of snow hit the ledge.
Hannibal walks forward to the snow pile and digs a pit in the mound of ice, revealing the warrior, frozen to death [11]. Hannibal grabbes the falcata out of Larophares hands and bowed, sheathing his sword.
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Up the steep, curvy, trail, The spartans continue to march forward, Leonidas contantly yelling out words of encouragment to his soldiers, saying things like "fight through it men!" and "We are Spartans!", but it realy didnt help. they conuinued to march down the pass, as sounds like a moan rang out across the mountain range.
Leonidas stopped, keeping his ear to the air, while one spartan, Hercilium, stayed back with him.
"Did you hear that sir?" Hercilium asked
"Yes my young one" Leonidas whispered into the cold, icy air
"What was it?" Hercilium looked more anxious than ever, bobbing up and down
"An Elephant" Leonidas' eyes squinted and looked around the mountain range, but saw and heard nothing else
they continued to catch up with the army which was already around the other side of the mountain.
they continued to walk forward as they saw Hermaia jogging towards them, shivering as usual.
"Sir, you must see this" he ussered Leonidas around the corner when he saw Hannibals army farther up the trail as they heard yells and screams as a soldier ran up to an elephant on the ground but was toppled by snow. They looked weak, but it didnt seem this army was just going to let them pass, they were going to fight untill death.
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While Hannibal said good bye to the hero soldier that saved his life, Marcus Levarius turned to the left, seeing, about 500 feet up where the trail turned and made an uphill U-turn, an army of spartans perched at the top, gazing down on them. They probably looked weak and pathetic, seeing as that their elephant is dead, and one soldier bascicly commided suicide while the rest of the regiment just akwardly stood around.
Marcus turnded around to the soldier behind him, Namaratep, and tapped him on the shoulder. once he got his attention, he pointed down the train at the army and whispered, "look".
Hartessus turned around and looked at what Marcus was pointing at. he walked up to the two and asked, "Do you think we should tell Hannibal?" The two turned, to look at Hannibal, who had just finnished saying good bye, and had began walking towards them. All they needed to do was to point, to show Hannibal what he needed to see
"Depleted Phalanx formation!" Hannibal turned to grab Larophares' Sarissa, then joined the group, with all three pointing forward, as Hannibal marched behind, with his Sarissa up.
"March!" Hannibal screamed into the setting sun.
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The Hoplites along with Leonidas continued to stare at the oncoming regiment, but When Leonidas noticed they were getting too close, he screamed his orders to his Soldiers, "Spartans! Phalanx!"
The Spartans got into phalanx formation, Hercilium, Oxedus, and Leonidas stood infront, in the back Jason and Hermaria stood shivering and loosing digits by the minuite. Leonidas called out a march, and the regiment marched forward, swiftly but steadily. The two oncoming armies were only about 50 feet from each other, but Hannibals Sarissae were only about 10 feet.
The Spartan interlocked Shields, and let out a yell, "Fight with Might!"
Leonidas shoved his Dory into the ground and unsheilded his Xyphos, pointing it towards the enemy, ordering, "Fire the Javelins!" and the two spartans in the back, along with Oxedus in the front threw their Javelins, The First one, drilling a hole into Marcus Levarius' shield, one missing completly, ending about 10 feet from the Carthaginians, while the seccond on, Hermaria's, struck Narmareatep in the Jaw. The only part not protected by some sort of armour. Narmaretep dropped his Sarissa in pain and collapsed on the ground, screaming.
He finaly stood up, half his jaw dangling from his skull, and blood pouring out, but, he collapsed on the ground once again, trying to make a moan that couldnt be acheived without his jaw. blood continued to squirt out of his upper half of his mouth, as he breathed heavily, then began breathing faster and faster until it seemed like he was hyperventilating. The sarrisae, now about 5 feet from the Spartans, usured Leonidas to let out one last command, a charge.
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The Spartans had issued their charge as Hannibal screamed out, "It is now time to fight like real Carthaginians!" The soldeirs replied with a mighty battle cry. The spartans charged through the Sarissae without a single one touching them, as Hannibal and Hartessus backed up. Hartessus loaded his sling, and spun it around about 5 times and let go of one end, as the specialy shapped rock spun through the air, narrowly missing Marcus, who was left to fight off the spartans, and slammed in between the eyes of the spartan Oxedus. Hannibal nodded his head in approval. Marcus took this chance and threw a soliferum at Oxedus, passing through his Linothorax, hitting right below the sternum.
Oxedus began coughing up blood, as he eventualy began gasping for air, then choked on his own blood, killing him [12]. Marcus spun, noticing Hercilium taking out his Spear, preparing to thrust. but Marcus was a quick thinker, he ducked and grabbed the dying body of Narmeratep, and whispered in his ear, "Sorry buddy" and held up the body, using him as a meat sheild that saved his life [13]. He turned 180 degrees, noticing Jason swinging his Xyphos at him. He held up his sheild, which blocked the blow. But that wouldnt save his life, because now, he was surrounded by 4 spartans, all ready to kill him.
Hercilium yelled out a battle cry into the cold harsh air, the spartans began closing in on him, laughing at the sight of him with his dagger, nervously turning every seccond, trying to find a target.
Hercilium let out a scream as they turned to notice a dagger slash across his throat . As he fell, the image of Hannibal apperaed, holding his dagger to his his, as it dripped blood off the blade, with the shadowy silouett of Hartessus in the below freezing background. The spartans stared at the odd soldiers, Hannibal, his mouth wide open, breathing deeply to catch his breath, slouched over with his bearded head staring up at the spartans, and his helmed crooked. What only made the image worse was Hartessus in the background, with his teeth chattering, as he hugged his sheild for warmth. The spatans had a neutral expression on their face first, but then bursted out laughing.
Somehow Hercilium has managed to get back up, but he wouldnt stay alive for long. Hannibal nodded at Marcus, as he took the orders and tuned around, slashing the neck of Hercilium. The soldier dropped to the floor as Marcus jumped on him and visiously stabbing him in his neck until his neck had turned to Jell-O .
The last 3 spartans stopped their laughing and turned to Marcus, growling at him. one spartan, Jason, stumbled forward with his disfigured leg and swung his Aspis at Marcus, slaming him against the mountain face, making him black out for a seccond or two. Jason swung him to the cliff side of ledge and quickly shoved his Dory in his stomach, then pulled it out in a matter of secconds. Marcus fell to his knees and bent over, screaming in pain, as Jason swung his Aspis one last time, throwing him off the cliff face .
Jason turned to the two akward Carthaginians, and yelled out. his beard getting hit with white specks of snow. Hartessus, watching this Goliath as he yelled into the air, pulled out a Soliferum, and threw it at him as his arms were spread open.
The Soliferum glided through the air, peircing into the Linothorax, but not penetrating all the way through. Jason stopped yelling and looked down at his armour, and swung his shield across the armour, knocking out the Soliferum dart. He looked at Hartessus, as he began loading a Soliferum into his arm. Jason marched towards the Carthaginian as Leonidas, Hermaria, and Hannibal stared on at the two fighters. Hartessus aimed his Soliferum at Jason, right in his neck. He threw the dart, but Jason swung his sheild, deflecting the blow. Trying to think of a solution, Hartessus ran away, leaving Hannibal by himself.
Hannibal, now cornered against the wall, unsheathed his falcata, and held his sheild infront of his face, for defence, turning into what loked like a giant, colourful, refridgerator holding a sword. Expecting the worst, the only thing he wasnt expecting came. The spearhead of a Sarissa appeared out of the stomach of Jason. As Jason collapsed, he saw Hartessus standing behind the fallen body, holding a Sarissa .
Thinking quick, Hannilbal looked up, noticing a clump of snow above, just waiting to fall off a dead tree branch. Hannibal swung his sheild against the mountainside, making the snow fall on the 3 of them. Hannibal, digging out the fastest, ran to Hartessus and patted him on the shoulder. He walked to the edge of the cliff, noticing Marcus' dead body on another ledge about 10 feet down. Turning, Hannibal saw Leonidas and Hermaria, scrambling out of the snow pile. He dropped his sheild onto the ledge and repeld down the side of the cliff, with the last thing he saw being the face of Leonidas charging towards him.
Hartessus, swung his sarissa around, trying to find the best target, Leonidas, or Hermaria. But that didnt matter as Hermaria grabbed the other end of the sarissa and pushed forward, throwing Hartessus off the cliff .
Making it to the ledge, the first thing Hannibal saw was the falling body of Hartessus, as he plummeted to certain death. Hannibal turned around and noticed a cave, he couldnt believe he hadnt noticed it yet. but he took it to his advantage. He grabbed the top of the sheild and dragged it into the cave.
It was dark and freezing, below zero water fell from the roof of the cave, splashing into frozen puddles. As he continued, he noticed the farther he ventured in, the warmer it got. he felt like he could stay in there for the rest of his life, but that wouldnt happen, as he heard, the souds of Leonidas talking
"Where did that bastard go?" questioned Leonidas
Hannibal heard the sound, it sounded only a few feet away. so he ducked behind a wet rock as Leonidas and Hermaria came into view.
"Its a Laberynth down here, that Spartan killer could be anywere." The soldiers stopped infront of the rock he was hiding behind. Ledonidas looked around, not seeing anything, he yelled and slammed his fist into the rock wall. "Lets continue" Leonidas grunted as Hermaria replied, "Yes sir", as they continued marching.
Hannibal layed his sheild against the side of the wall slowly, so it made no noise. he gripped his falcata and crept behind the two, waiting for them to stop again.
Finally he got his wish. Hermaria, stopped, and took a breath as the oxygen began to disappear the deeper in the cave he got. "Sir, i dont think were going to find him, there is no way he could have ventured any further" he took another breath, "there is no air up ahe..". Hermaria choked, grabbing the falcata wrapped around his neck hoping for it to move away.
Hannibal stepped out of the shadows, and stuck his head to the side of Hermaria's.
"drop the weapons and no one gets hurt 'sir'". Leonidas knew what Hannibal was doimg, Hannibal was blackmailing him into submision, but he didnt want another dead man, so he dropped the Dory, and unsheathed his Xyphos, and set it on the ground.
"The sheild too" Hannibal said calmly.
"E tan, e epi tas" Leonidas whispered to himself
"What was that?" Hannibal yelled in a commanding voice
"Come home with this Sheild, or upon it" Leonidas murmured. "so thats a no"
'Very well" Hannibal put is mouth over Hermarias mouth and slashed the falcata across his neck .
Hannibal turned and ran to go get his sheild, as Leonidas reached for is Xyphos, and charged.
When Hannibal made it to the rock where he had laid his sheils against, Leonidas had pretty much caught up. Hannibal grabbed to top of his sheild and swung it at Leonidas to counter attack his charge. Leonidas swung his sheild throwing it out of Hannibal's hand. Hannibal gripped his falcata and swung it at Leonidas, but it was again thrown out of his hand by Leonidas' Aspis.
Leonidas swung Aspis again, and flung Hannibal across the icy floor. he landed next to his Falcata, as he grabbed it and jumped up on his feet. He charged up to Leonidas and jumped om top of him, wrestling him to the floor. Leonidas dropped his Xyphos, as Hannibal swung a few punches at Leonidas, making him armor clang and vibrate. Leonidas wrestled him (obviously winning) and threw him against the wall. Hannibal skinned his face, as he leaned against the icy wall.
Leonidas grabbed hold of Hannibals shoulders and swung his armoured head forward, prepared to clash heads with Hannibal. Hannibal broke out of Leonidas' grip as his head flew against the wall. He turned to hannibal with a painful exression on his face. He lifted his helmet up, revealing the skin on his forehead had peeled of because of hitting the wall. He grimmaced as he took off the helmet, and stumbled towards Hannibal with an im so gonna get you, face.
Hannibal, noticing his Falcata was resting next to his feet, ducked down and grabbed it tight, and charged towards Leonidas, slashing his face, sending him to the ground .
Hannibal wiped the blood off of his Falcata turned towards the dead body and and whispered, "remember, Come home on your sheild, or upon it". Hannibal reached down for the Aspis that had came off of Leonidas' arm when he fell, and tossed it to the dead body, "your gonna need this when you get home". Hannibal chuckled and turned around as he marched out of the cave, stopping to grab his sheild on the way out.
