Why make Tyrant reluctant leader?

Pale satin is nicer

It may not be common to marry your own direct descendants for royals, but Zeus did have a child with his own great-granddaughter. Alcmene, by whom he fathered Hercules, was the granddaughter of one of his other half-mortal children, Perseus.

This is interesting, since he is an alternate Statesman, and thus probably also an Incarnate of Zeus. I don't think that it was an intentional parallel, though, but the unintended consequence of the retcon that they used to make Statesman and Recluse's conflict a little more personal by making them family. Initially, though it wasn't expressly stated in the game, Ms. Liberty was the granddaughter of Maria Jenkins, who seemed to have never been much closer to Statesman than a former ally.

But I can't eat that

Well, you can eat while wearing it - it's a good compromise

When does any sane army defend against an attack by superior numbers on "open ground?" Usually, combatants cross open ground only when they have to, and usually that is when they are the attacker, or they are retreating defenders.

The battle of Thermopylae is not just about blocking a narrow pass. There are suggestions that other tactics were used, such as the tactic of pretending to retreat and then turning back on the attackers in perfect phalanx formation (which disrupts the formation of your attacker as they pursue, while keeping your own). Used more than once by the Greeks. The terrain was also used at least initially to neutralize calvary and prevent being outflanked, which is smart tactics, not just a way to neutralize numerical superiority.

Remove the archers and calvary from the Persians, and I believe the Spartans could have held their own against the Persians on relatively open ground for a very long time against an extremely numerically superior force. When calvary wasn't present, an Athenian army attacked and defeated a comparable Persian army outnumbered by about three to one or more on open ground at Marathon, with minimal losses.


In the Battle of Mogadishu (i.e. the battle portrayed in Black Hawk Down) US forces were probably outnumbered by factors possibly approaching 100 to 1 during the night (although more likely 50-60 to 1). Although the environment allowed some cover to the forces on the ground, the terrain was not a carefully selected one that granted a unilateral advantage to the Rangers and Delta operators. Superior training and tactics were the deciding factor in the outcome of the battle (although the battle is a difficult one to call a victory for either side, most of the US forces escaped being killed by an overwhelmingly numerically superior force of attackers.)

There is one connection between the two... http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=133915

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