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by FredPret 1496 days ago
The famous 300 Spartans did a lot of damage partly because they used the terrain to limit the size of the front
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I seem to recall learning that the famous 300 Spartans also had another ~3000 Greeks in with them. Is the poplular tale of "only" 300 Spartans not a popular myth perpetuated because it sounds cooler?
This is why you should use mountains to defend if you are attacked by a greater force in EU4. Smaller combat with.
And Civ1. And Civ2. And D&D War Machine.

If you have a combat sim and it doesn't reward hills/mountains for defense, then you are playing a space sim.