So those are the ferocious berserkers I've heard so

>>1880089
Welcome to /his/ new friend, where meme warriors are mocked for being commercialized action figures designed to sell toys and gym memberships, and who revel in their actual history in all its mundane glory.

You'll eventually notice other iconic "warriors" getting this treatment, like Spartans or Samurai. We even like reminding people that the classical European knight was a glorified administrator who had more in common with a mafia made-man than they did with a Roman Legionary, Royal Marine, Navy SEAL, or Mossad Operative.

>>1880342

Wait, I knew about the Samurai and the European Knights, but can you point me to further reading about the Spartans?

>>1880372
Raped little boys and sucked each other's dick. Literally.

You'll find a good spartan in making in the gay porn store.

Well you can't really expect some undisciplined raiders with shitty equipment to stand up to any sort of trained force. In most cases that's all they were.

>>1880498
They still were excellent warriors, but in every other respect were morally and ethically monstruous, like the persian empire were abso-fuckinglutely on the moral high ground and even offered their slaves(that outnunbered the sparts like 10:1) freedom if they assisted them

>>1880554
>Spartans were evil because they had slaves
wew, so did about every single group of humans at the time. I'd prefer Sparta to conquer my city rather than Athens t b h. the Spartans will just make me a serf. Athenians would kill me, rape my wife and enslave my children.

>>1880579
>will just make me a serf
>kill me, rape my wife and enslave my children

Thats not that different though. If you made Spartan citizen dislike you'll end up dead, if a Spartan citizen fancied your wife he'll take her, and your children are already slaves.

>>1880342
But mafia is fucking awesome.

>>1880554

>They still were excellent warriors

Well, yeah, that was how I understood it. They may have been raging faggots like >>1880498 this guy, but I always thought they were supposed to be good warriors.

But then you said something I don't get, that they were morally and ethically monstrous? If you say compared to our time, then sure, but compared to their time, I don't recall anyone being like, "Holy shit you guys the spartans are fucking despicable people."

I'd like to read it if you have a source for that.

>>1880746
That's because ancient people didn't care about slaves or how shitty you treat them.

Spartans had their final test of the agoge be to secretly kill a helot slave. That's killing more than 9000 slaves just for a right of passage ritual.

>another thread mocking Nordic and Germanic culture
/his/ is going downhill

>>1880372
Remember the 300 brave spartans holding off the whole persian army? There was between 5,000 and 7,000 other troops there. The Spartans taking credit for that is like the Brazilians or the Poles saying they invaded Italy.

>>1880554
>offered their slaves(that outnunbered the sparts like 10:1) freedom if they assisted them
This, btw, is why Spartans were absolute ass at warfare.