dr nusbacher good or bad?

[bones58]

The expert for time commanders do you like him,dislike him?
personnaly i think hes funny when he get carried away on the "post mortem" and start to smack the blocks around.

[Khorak]

I thought he was great. My whole family loved it when the guy started talking.

[Templar Knight]

I think hes alright, just a little out of control sometimes

[ptolemy]

i think hes ace and obviously knows his stuff unlike the contestants.

[Spino]

All the historians on that show are good. Even the ancient weapons expert (the bald, middle aged fellow) they ditched after the first few episodes was quite informative. Nusbacher's commentary is especially enjoyable but I could do without his hyperactive displays on the map table. When he bashes the blocks about I get the impression that he has way too much pent up angst.

[Fridge]

I have a soft spot for him, but before TC, he would crop up as an expert on just about every single History/Discovery Channel programme with anything to do with warfare and weapons - not that there's anything wrong with that per se, though he does risk becoming the Davina McCall of ancient war...

[Epistolary Richard]

They're both pretty funny. He was a bit condescending at times, but then again some of contestants were extremely stupid.

"You're heavily outnumbered by Britons, but the good news is you're on a hill in a highly defensible position."
"Quick, we've got to get down on the plain!"

"You're being charged by a horde of barbarian warriors and chariots."
"Quick, let's form the turtle thing!"

[bones58]

even if you dont like or like him u have to agree he brings some colour to the program. this comes into its own wen you have dull contestents

[Arrowhead]

I't is funny when he tears hair out over a stupid thing the team has done.As do I.

[Khorak]

It's definitely the best when the contestants do something obviously stupid and they cut back to him going, "No! What are you doing!?"

[tai4ji2x]

yeah, but why does he pronounce it "makuhdonians"? is that actually how it's pronounced by natives?

[Spino]

yeah, but why does he pronounce it "makuhdonians"? is that actually how it's pronounced by natives?

Yup.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I thought he was fantastic. He had a real energy, and was extremely funny.

I imagine it'd be a laugh to be lectured by him.

[Khorak]

Yeah, it's the real passion he has for the subject that you respend to. He gets so exciteable talking about it you can't help but enjoy listening to him.

And you know the producers considered him an asset, because they started to encourage his nuttiness by giving him cocktail shakers and stuff to launch the blocks across the table. :D

[Kraxis]

yeah, but why does he pronounce it "makuhdonians"? is that actually how it's pronounced by natives?

As Spino said, yes.
In ancient times 'c' was 'k' in latin. Thus everything that contains a 'c' is pronounced with a 'k', and we have the spelling of the Macedonians from the Romans (given we took over their alphabet which in turn was derived from the greek alphabet). So it is Skipio, Prinkipes, Kaesar and so on. I think even 'ch' was pronounced as 'k', but now it is getting a bit outside my area.

And yes, I love Nusbacher. His love for the issue is evident, and he gets carried away like I do at times (at least that is what my girlfriend tells me). Of course some of his antics in the postbattle part is too much (like when he kicked the bricks around), but some were absolutely superb like the cocktailshaker and the throwing of toothpicks.

[Khorak]

Of course some of his antics in the postbattle part is too much (like when he kicked the bricks around)

Didn't he start getting all his toys AFTER that?

"Um...did he just...?"
"I think he did. We can't control this loon."
"Give him toys. We can at least keep all his limbs where they should be."

[tai4ji2x]

okay, i know that's how a classical latin speaker would pronounce the "ce" in macedon, but i guess i'm just wondering, how do greeks refer to the region? and what about thrace? i guess a roman would pronounce it "trakay" (with a rolled "r") with it current spelling, but what about the greek pronunciation - and not necessarily as we spell it today?

[Kraxis]

okay, i know that's how a classical latin speaker would pronounce the "ce" in macedon, but i guess i'm just wondering, how do greeks refer to the region? and what about thrace? i guess a roman would pronounce it "trakay" (with a rolled "r") with it current spelling, but what about the greek pronunciation - and not necessarily as we spell it today?

Greek today is quite a bit different from ancient greek (while 'b' is infact pronounced 'v' now it was pronounced as our 'b' back then), so there are parts that we simply don't know how they pronounced. I'm not sure if Thrace is part of that, but since the romans took more than just a lot from the greeks in terms of regional names (among others) I think it is safe to say that the roman name is fitting enough. And since greek has a 'ch' letter a 'k' letter and an 's' letter it is safe to guess that if the romans even just copied the written greek name for Thrace it would sound right.

[Thaum]

I actually think that while the guys are ok, they are just a bit too dorky for my liking. Particulary nusbacher. While his commentary and his analysis is good. The running amok bit at the end with a (cannot remember the people that use them in casinos) stick really gets my goat.

Still I love the show, even though I cringe a lot. What would be better is if Nusbacher and other tacticians or Generals were playing each other. Now that would be interesting.

It is amazing that this games engine can give so much entertainment.