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Monk
09-22-2003, 21:53
http://www.totalwar.com/time.htm

Looks like CA dug up a bit of background info for the battles, not much there, but it has a few new screens posted http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Lord of the Isles
09-24-2003, 14:29
Tried to post this on a totalwar.com forum but heavens only knows what they've done to mangle my account. Anyway, according to my TV & Satellite listings guide, which has been right so far, the next two episodes are:

week4: Mons Graupius (Romans v Picts/Caledonians)
Some info on battle (http://www.wargamer.com/greatbattles/monsgraupius.asp)

week5: Tigranocerta (Romans v Armenians)
Some info on battle (http://fanaticus.org/DBA/battles/tigranocerta.html)

Barkhorn1x
09-24-2003, 17:58
According to Plutarch - the Armenians had 125,000 men, Lucullus had 17,000 - and he ATTACKED

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

What was Plutarch smoking anyway?

Contrast this to Tacitus' numbers - where the Romans were outnumbered by about 2:1. Tacitus had first hand information on this battle from the Roman commander himself. Plutarch is obviously relying on guard house stories for his information.

I wonder how the force ratio will be represented in the TC Tigranocrta show.

Barkhorn.