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* [[Forever War]]: War was at first a seasonal activity although Greeks preferred to have one battle a year and then adjust each cities turf accordingly so they could get back to their crops. After the Persian invasion showed them what war was like when an absolutist monarch imposed his ideas of war on it war became more bitter and all pervasive.
* [[Home by Christmas|Home by Harvest]]: One reason they "liked"(in a manner of speaking) phalanx fighting was that it got the war over for a year instead of spending a drawn out period raiding each other.
* [[Home Guard]]: The phalanx was specifically acclimated to this. It's ponderous nature kept it from being used for subtleties but it was a giant thing that [[Mighty Glacier| rolled over everything in it's path]] and for a while little could stop it except another phalanx. Thus it equalized things for farmers who did not wish to [[Aristocrats Are Evil|pay protection]] to a trained warrior class. Spartans curiously incorporated the phalanx into a regular army.
* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: It was a common lament during the Peleponesian War that new weapons and tactics had made the manly phalanx fighting obsolete.
* [[Love Potion]] (Eros's arrows)
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