Spartacus

Spartacus (c. 111–71 BCE) was a Thracian-born gladiator who, in 73 BCE, led a breakout from the gladiatorial school at Capua and ignited the Third Servile War. Encircled beneath Mount Vesuvius, he rappelled his men down the cliffs on rope ladders woven from vines and shattered the Roman pursuit. At its height his host swelled past a hundred thousand — slaves, herdsmen, and the dispossessed — and it broke consular army after consular army as it marched the length of the Italian peninsula. He fell in 71 BCE at Lucania, in a last battle against Crassus, and six thousand of his followers were crucified along the Appian Way: a line of crosses that warned the late Republic of the fire it had let loose. The man died; the name became a banner.

Spartacus anchors the front as an Infantry bruiser — equal parts shield and blade. He is the kind of Lord who grows deadlier the more he bleeds: a tank who taunts the enemy line into striking him, then answers each blow with a free-blade riposte. His signature flourish carries him forward in a sweeping cut that blunts incoming harm, while a defiance that wakes near death lets him clamp down hardest on fast-striking foes. The harder Rome hit him, the more dangerous he became — and that legend rides into the Europe of the continent with him.

Hero Bonds

Bonds this commander belongs to — activate by fielding all listed heroes together:

• Bulwark of the Nation (国之壁垒) — with Yi Sun-sin · William Wallace → +5% Damage Reduction

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