Time commanders new series success or faliure?

**Duke John** · 02-21-2005, 07:39

In the case of this weeks battle, the team should have been informed that although they technically won the battle, it was entirely pyrrhic.

Well, they were being told exactly that. An expert said that even if they knocked politely on the Trojan gate there would be little chance that they would get their princess back. (Did you pass out after the shock of the "You are victorious" message appearing?)

The gamers had a pretty sound tactic, but it was a camping tactic. If they kept moving along the river and went straight for the right flank of the Trojan army then they would have won decisively. Now they just got distracted and weren't able to cope with more than 2 events.

And what was with the lang haired dude constantly watching the monitor of the left captain? We've seen generals standing in the front ignoring the nice overhead map, but this is the first time that a general was forgetting entirely that he was a general. At the end he got better, but in the beginning it was like a coach trying to score on the field.

**Khorak** · 02-21-2005, 11:28

Originally Posted by Duke John

Well, they were being told exactly that. An expert said that even if they knocked politely on the Trojan gate there would be little chance that they would get their princess back. (Did you pass out after the shock of the "You are victorious" message appearing?).

Uh....actually I was kind of....um....squishing a bunch of Celts in Civ III. *runs from hordes of Orgers with pitchforks and fire*

**Epistolary Richard** · 02-21-2005, 19:41

Perhaps this was their attempt to show us 'strategy gamers' having our heads handed to us and that perhaps it isn't as easy as it looked... nah, we could still thrash them. Bunch of headless chickens.

Originally Posted by Duke John

And what was with the lang haired dude constantly watching the monitor of the left captain? We've seen generals standing in the front ignoring the nice overhead map, but this is the first time that a general was forgetting entirely that he was a general. At the end he got better, but in the beginning it was like a coach trying to score on the field.

Phht, I've yet to see a general worthy of the name. Perhaps the mother in the Battle of Stamford Bridge?

Nus was very funny though. Couldn't really go wrong with them though, virtually every move they made was a mistake. The 'AI' player must have gone very easy on them. I thought when all those spearmen were charging the rear of the Greek units that it was game over. Only the heroic close quarters ability of their archers and slingers brought it back for them.

But continuing on in the 'WTF game are they playing anyway?' thread it was nice to see a phalanx that actually worked properly and didn't shuffle or rotate or stood there and got butchered.

And *gasp* their chariots were actually effective at running down fleeing troops

. From my experience the chariots should have wheeled in crazy circles around the archer unit, knocking them down by the bushel just to have them get up again and start running.

With this and the appalling spin-doctors at Dara looks like the only way a team is going to lose this season is if they auto-resolve. :biggrin:

**Kaldhore** · 02-21-2005, 20:41

Aye I was a bit miffed at how good those chariots were.

Its the reason I get fed up with the Brits and I havent even played the egyptians yet.

**RJV** · 02-22-2005, 12:07

Total, utter Numpties this week. The Captains wanted to be Generals and the Generals wanted to be Captains. Didn't stick to the plan, turned the ENTIRE army to have one big-ass exposed flank - which any decent player, and even, please God, the AI - would surely have ploughed headlong into with anything and everything, got totally enveloped in the centre, and STILL won.

It's still an entertaining show - Nus is worth the price of admission alone - but it would be nice if once, just once, they had a challenging battle on there.

Cheers,

Rob.