User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/New settings poll!/@comment-4636255-20120319151350/@comment-75.106.242.10-20120319203132

If they decide on the rise of Xerxes, there's a commonly forgotten and very important part of the battle of Thermopylae (300) that took place as a large-scale naval battle. Plus, both Xerxes and his predecessor Darius were famous for making a hundreds of miles-long bridge of boats and bringing hoards of soldiers across, which isn't a ship battle in the traditional sense, but it's still cool.