Time commanders-new series-new presenter

[eddeduck]

Just saw in the TV listings that the new series of time commanders starts on BBc2 on sunday 7:15.
Also Richard Hammond aka the hampster off Top Gear is presenting instead of that twit that did it before.
I hope this is good news to somebody.

[Herakleitos]

Thanx! So that would be 8:15 PM CET?!

[Divine Wind]

Wow! Thats great news! Thanks for the heads up Eddeduck.

[Divine Wind]

The Vicars: Can the forces of evil be defeated by our team of vicars as they take on the might of the Germanic army in the battle of Teutoberg Forest. Presented by Richard Hammond.

Sounds like the team may need divine intervention

[Myrddraal]

Great stuff, thx I would never have know otherwise

[King Henry V]

Pity, I think Jeremy Clarkson would have been better. He could have insulted the contestants for their lack of skill.

[Rodafowa]

Terrible choice of presenter, great news about the new series! That one goes straight onto the Personal Planner so that I don't forget to tape it while I'm swearing at the NFL playoffs tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads-up!

[Wishazu]

amazing, is that sunday as in the 16th? as in today? btw i liked the old presenter, he was a bit of a cock but not as much as most of the contestants thay had on :)

[Divine Wind]

Yep its on tonight at 7:15!

It would also be interesting to look out for some of the bugs that weve encountered in Rome, and see if this series is being run on the patch were so desperate for! Things like the phalanx shuffle etc.

Plus some of the battles they recreate could also point us in the direction of the expansion pack they will undoubtably be releasing!

[Throb]

The expansion pack could possibly be "Barbarian Inavasion" based on the fact that in the 1st Series they had

The Battle Of Chalons, Huns, Avars, Alans, Visgoths and Vandals.

The Battle of Adrianople, Goths

Just a thought.

[Wishazu]

im hoping that the expansion will be the persian invasion

[Lord Hornburg]

Great show that vicar well he doesn't sound like a vicar at all!!!

[Templar Knight]

I wouldn't call Eddie Mair a twit, sure the BBC make a mistake in putting him as the presenter of the show, not his style I don't believe. Does he not present some politics show on Radio 4?

[MuseRulez]

So is this season any better than the first one? I only saw the last episode of the first season. I thought it was very good. But when I looked it up on the Net I only saw bad reactions.

O yeah, the Vicars rule

[attila_of_nazareth]

Pity, I think Jeremy Clarkson would have been better. He could have insulted the contestants for their lack of skill.

i agree but i liked the old one - he come out with some good quotes!

[attila_of_nazareth]

The expansion pack could possibly be "Barbarian Inavasion" based on the fact that in the 1st Series they had

The Battle Of Chalons, Huns, Avars, Alans, Visgoths and Vandals.

The Battle of Adrianople, Goths

Just a thought.

attila will rule! the expansion will surely be the 'second phase' of the roman empire - who will destroy rome? maybe leading on to an 'eastern empire'. i'm hoping that 'alexander the great' will also be featured, infact that might be the title - al' total war what do you recon folks.

[Wilbo]

oh man, just finished watching today's episode... For those that missed it it was Macedonia under Alexander against an Indian army.

The team had a good initial formation and communication, but they had no planning on what unit was best at eliminating any other: Light infantry against elephants? Are you insane?

The team just werent dynamic enough with their formation: They needed to protect those flanks and keep the fast cavalry moving around to protect their units.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

The battle was great tonight. The indians looked class, and i do hope they appear in the expansion pack or CA will release the Skins for download

[ShadesPanther]

They did well at the start. Good commuication and planning but it all went wrong. All their cavalry destryed the indian cavalry and so they decided to have a little trip through the indian army. Into the Elephants whee about half died and then they moved on into the indian spearmen who cut almost all the rest down.

There was an elephant unit which made a little jurney chasing the horse archers almost untill the end of the map until it decided to crush some men instead and so it rampaged back and killed almost all the phalanxes and the ones that survived got mobbed by the Indian infantry.

Overall they got less help than last's week's family but they didn't learn from the
mistakes in the skirmish and payed for it. The Gnerals basically stood there and watched the screen.

[Orda Khan]

Terrific use of Horse archers, hemmed in between right flank and the river
Guess they thought their companions would beat the entire enemy army. Did they move their infantry at all?

.......Orda

[ShadesPanther]

I think they spent most of the time trying the reform the phalanxes and then they eventually mved up. They didn't really get very far

[Frankymole]

Most amusing to see one mounted horse leap from a standing start over the horse and rider in front to get into the fray. Is this an early version of the R:TW engine? That act looked totally unbelievable.

[Wishazu]

i think they failed cos the new show format doesnt really allow you to learn anything about ur units strengths and weaknesses. the 2 questions thing is crap! they should have a rethink about this.

[MuseRulez]

i think they failed cos the new show format doesnt really allow you to learn anything about ur units strengths and weaknesses. the 2 questions thing is crap! they should have a rethink about this.

I agree. They should give all teams a quick battle tutorial or something. Most of them have no idea what they are doing.

[Lord Hornburg]

Unture they let the team play on RTW berfore hand

[Wishazu]

they should just change it back to the old system for the battles, get rid of the pauses, scout out the enemy army before hand, learn about key troops strengths/weaknesses. Keep the pre-battle skirmish though, thats the best new feature.

[Derfal Cadarn]

Hmmm just because you dont see it on TV doesnt mean it don't happen.

Basically teh critisicm is the same as the last series, ie players arnt given enough information . what you have to remmeber is the general public, probably arnt that interested in the finesse of how to win the battle etc, they just want to see how the teams actually does, probably in the hope, that they make a complete mess of it. last weeks team made a fundamental error with their flanks, which im sure at one stage or another everyone who's played the game has done, but they are given more instructions that what is actually edited to appear on tv

[ShadesPanther]

Unture they let the team play on RTW berfore hand

They played MTW before hand which is similar but then there are problems with using it (they underestimated the Elephants last week)

[ShadesPanther]

Well Tonights contestants were possibly the luckiest people ever.

They lost the skirmish badly, cavalry wiped out and then infantry sandwiched between phalanx and macedonian cavalry.

They were charging up the hill in the main battle with their cavalry and then at the top they just stopped and got slaughtered by the archers. On the other side they had cavalry about to charge unformed phalanxes and destroy the macedonian left, but suddenly stopped and were taken out by javlins and macedonian cavalry.

The battle turned into a real meat grinder with about 4 units of roman infantry in a clump charging the macedonians. The only reason they were saved was because they had a unit of elephants charge right along the macedonian line (by accident I think, they didn't plan to use them).

Craig the general didn't have a clue and just shouted all these incomprehensabe orders, the female general just watched the show. The 2 captains were alright but really needed bettter and clearer directions and after a while ignored Craig and therefore they won

[Frankymole]

they should just change it back to the old system for the battles, get rid of the pauses, scout out the enemy army before hand, learn about key troops strengths/weaknesses. Keep the pre-battle skirmish though, thats the best new feature.

They always had the pauses, though. They were just edited out of the season 1 broadcasts.