Time commanders-new series-new presenter

**ShadesPanther** · 02-06-2005, 16:22

Originally Posted by Lord Hornburg

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** · 02-06-2005, 20:40

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

**TonkaToys** · 02-06-2005, 22:46

Blasted BBC... they changed the time so my recording missed everything up to the first pause! GAH! And they don't repeat it. And their stupid A-Z schedule doesn't list it. And their stupid search engine doesn't find it in the schedule.

Looked like this week's team had no clue... the experts kept using the word Chaos... still they won which is more than the organised military guys in the previous week.
Surprised the teenage operators could keep their minds on the job with that woman's low cut blouse... actually the operators probably helped the team to win in order to impress them!

Glad to see Nus getting back on form, and who was the other expert? He seemed quite fiesty too. Still Nus is always best when their are nice women in the team.

**Jochi Khan** · 02-06-2005, 23:57

Perhaps that is why they changed the time.

They knew viewers wouldn't be watching the battle

because of the low cut blouse

Jochi

**Kaldhore** · 02-07-2005, 01:29

That was a terrible battle. It was way too easy - for all their mistakes they should have lost badly - perhaps the Macedonian AI hadnt been patched yet :P

**Orda Khan** · 02-14-2005, 22:58

Presenter-wise, Baldrick would be a better choice IMO. Most of the teams so far have failed to show any grasp of ancient warfare and tend to rely on one unit type to win the whole battle for them

.........Orda

**ShadesPanther** · 02-14-2005, 23:07

like the Episode against the Indians

After destroying a whole indian wing of cavalry and then charging into the middle against elephants and Spearmen.
"I thought Companian Cavalry were good"

**TonkaToys** · 02-15-2005, 09:57

Perhaps we are being unfair on the contestants? After all the one's in this week's show are not military historians, and the one chap that purported to be a strategist was made a Captain. Are they even game players?
And in the final analysis, the experts said that the team fought the battle in the same way that the original combatants did, losing in a similar way.
Whilst the battle was chaotic, the experts did keep saying that it might still go the way of the team, provided they concentrated their forces. Perhaps if the generals had stood back, they would have seen this, but then who hasn't been guilty of micro-management and losing the bigger picture?

**Mikeus Caesar** · 02-19-2005, 20:53

the contestants are as clueless as ever

Gawd, tell me about it. They are either the general, just shouting their heads off and doing no good for the team, or they are the captains, who either just stand there and occasionally go 'The horses are dead. Oops.' or miss damn obvious things e.g the enemy phalanx might be turned around, and rather than notice this and use some cavalry they got standing around to ram into the phalanx rear, they just ignore this and keep piling men into the front of the phalanx. And then you've got your usual captain, who just doesn't have a clue what they're doing. If you think about, the few who actually win, in reality, it would have been a hollow victory. They suffer huge losses in the battle, and only just scrape through. In the days afterwards, there would have been some form of counter attack, in which they would have been finished off.