it was very thick as they had to fight with it
3 feet long
Boys in Sparta were trained to be soldiers at a young age.
Mainly spear and shield. Spartan hoplites (infantry) used relatively short swords (xiphos) as a secondary weapon.
Would depend on the distance, and the angle of impact. A shot impacting at 90 degrees at close range would be likely to penetrate- a shot at an angle of 45 degrees or greater would be likely to glance off the shield.
300 to 400 in the spartan 1 project, 250 to 300 in the spartan 2 project, and less then 200 in the spartan 3 project.
Captive Spartan workers were called helots.
a spartan had a helmet a shield and a spear
Metal
Aspis.
7
1400
during battle
Try: http://www.instructables.com/id/Spartan-Shield/ http://www.ne.jp/asahi/luke/ueda-sarson/Greek_shield_patterns_1.html
Spartan IIs are the only soldiers in the UNSC to have the shield ability. Im not sure if the Spartan IIIs do in the book Ghost of Onyx.
I suppose to clean and repair it. There is a story that before battle, Spartan mothers told their sons to either come back victorious or come back carried on their shield.{Spartan mothers would give their sons the shield with the words "Return with it or carried on it!" }
it depends on wether or not the samurai could get past the Spartan's giant pansy shield
the spartan shield didn't have an A on it. it had a lambda. lambda is the greek letter L, which stood for Laconia, the part of greece where they are from.
Spartan mothers and wives gave their men their shield before they went to war and told them "with your shield or on it." In other words, come back alive with your shield, never having run in panic from the enemy, or come back on it, dead.