Time commanders new series success or faliure?

[Butcher]

Oh I agree, i thought the battle was far too easy. But then if people got crushed every week then would it make as good viewing (not from our persepctive, i am sure we would get an evil satisfaction from it!) for the general public?
Anyway, what i thought was interesting was the new models/skins. DOes anyone know if they were created especially or not?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

The only good thing about it is Nusbacher and Mike loades swinging his battle axe at the viewer during last nights episode. The battles ate too quick man, and i liked the voice over in season 1 but they choose to get rid of it and the pausing during the battle just ruins it for me! The battles so far have been really easy, i just hope next week the team at Hydaspes fights as the Indian army and try to see them defend against Alexander's army.

[MacBeth]

I stand by my previous post - contrived crap for kids.

[Prodigal]

I wanna know what PC's they're using, I watched a show yesterday & wondered where the 1 frame a minute graphics were, & why I couldn't hear any CPU implosion warning sounds.

[Fridge]

One thing I really noticed last night was all that talk about using archers to pin the enemy, followed by lovely shots of them loosing off volleys into countless massive melee scrums, the camera following the flight until... it cunningly cut away seconds before you saw half a friendly unit disappear under the hail of pointy sticks.

Also - thousands of people charging across a bridge and not one soldier bravely throwing himself in the river for the sake of the unit? Thpffft.

[Epistolary Richard]

I agree we've lost something of the tactical overview of the battle, which I found really interesting, in place of more focus on the contestants (which I imagine the production company thought would appeal to a wider demographic than just RTW players).

As for the battle itself, it was a bit like the Battle of Stamford Bridge as fought at CentreParcs

For all this talk of the indomitable shield-wall that was the standard battle-plan of the period, we never saw one being formed on either side, but I doubt there were any mods to the game engine itself to try and replicate it. And the Norwegians seemed more hell-bent on throwing their troops in as soon as they could rather than forming up as an army as they did historically.

No mention of the Norwegians forgetting to bring their armour either!

[Fridge]

And, bearing in mind the programme is - I'm assuming - supposed to be at least a little educational, there seemed to be very little mention of what happened next week; ie, Hastings, Harold's death and the Norman invasion.

Maybe it would have upset little Mash, knowing that no matter he did, Harold was still going to get it in the eye a week on Tuesday.

In fact, have they done Hastings before? Seems like it would be an interesting one to do, with a very real possibility of rewriting history...

[RJV]

I'm expecting that one (Hastings) to be later in the series - having built it up in some of the commentary last night, it seems like a logical thing to do, especially as they are obviously trying to wring a few more viewers out of it.

To be fair to Lion TV (or whoever it is that holds the purse strings), if you ask people whether they'd want Stamford Bridge or Gaugamela, then we know where the votes will go, regardless of how 'interesting' the battle would be.


And a little aside - has anyone spotted that Aryeh looks like he's been at the mince pies over the holiday period? Celebrity status seems to be transferring itself into extra pounds round the old tummy...

Cheers,

Rob.