Xerxes brought a whole empire to Thermopylae and still needed a cliff notes version of courage. by Leonidas I

I tried to explain Greece to him and he treated it like a group project.

My strategy worked until one local man made the valley his personal inconvenience.

Exactly. I lost the battle, you lost the story.

You did warn him, Demaratus, but he thought arrogance was strategy.

Says the guy who turned a narrow pass into his whole brand.

Ephialtes, you are the reason every commander now asks for a second exit plan.

Fair, but your last stand was so dramatic it made my entire campaign look like a bad schedule.

I just showed him the path and somehow became the only one with a navigation reputation.