Time Commanders: The battle of Gaugemela 1/5

[extondude]

I use to watch this as a child... oh how i missed it

[CincinnatusSPQR]

This is so fucking geeky.. dont you just love it?...

[ManilaSyndicate]

Even through computer graphics, one can see the overwhelming advantage the Persians had in numbers in the battle. It makes one appreciate Alexander's victory more.

It's interesting to see Mark Urban guesting on a battle of ancient warfare - his specialty is on British military history.

[migkillerphantom]

@ManilaSyndicate BS. Modern estimates put the Achaemenid army at 53 thousand versus Alexander's 47.

[lUnseenSniperl]

@migkillerphantom ive heard some thought darius' army was closer to 100 thousand?

[Baseballschaap]

hahahaha Arye saying "kick 'em in the nuts" xD

considering he's had a sex change, one could say that he already then knew feminine tactics :P

(this is a joke, i'm not a conservative hater... ^^)

[patchesohoolihan666]

@Baseballschaap YOU CONSERVATIVE HATING BASTARD

[Tareltonlives]

@HyperHandGrenade Even in the Troy episode, the experts still called out the team on their bullshit

[nhunter713]

In the picture of nusbacher his eye is massive

[WojekSiren]

Great Alexander: See the gap at 4:55? That is the persian army's vagina and we the cavlary are the dick. Now let's charge in and get some.

[persianparsal]

@WojekSiren hahahaha

[rugbart11]

hotheaded nothing - alexander was amazing

[s2w2a2t]

ive never seen this show it seems awsome

[justin2242]

does anyone know why this stopped showing id love for it to make a comeback tbh id likely apply to appear on the program

[magicstorm1]

@justin2242 if the show will come back and your ognna apply, make sure you pretend you never played tactical computer games. Because they like to hire people that have no skills on computer games but with tactics and strategy alone

[slamer2000]

From my experience, Roman Praetorian Legionaries or the roman guys that had those horse hair helmets were pretty awesome at breaking through Macedonian Phalanxes. I even experimented and found that they could break through.

[watdas1]

Aryeh had a sex change....

[evildeathmonkey1]

@watdas1 brave move.. good for her:)

[Niking317]

jeese, i learn a lot more about these battles now with this series. plus, the battles are tight

[themega11]

is this match based on rome total war because if it is how do u get those kl looking alexander's units that look like spartans at the beggining of the vid?plz answer.thx

[MelonRicochet]

@themega11 u have to get Total War: Alexander to get them

[themega11]

is this match based on rome total war because if it is how do u get those kl looking alexander's units at the beggining of the vid?plz answer.thx

[sdgsdgsdgsd3]

@themega11 it is rome total war

[themega11]

is this matc based on rome total war because if it is how do u get those kl looking greek units that u see in at the beggining of the vid? plz answer. thx

[nationalist19]

WHy did they never do a battle in which the persians win. such as the reign of Cyrus the great. for as we know, no matter how great alexander was, he was nothing compared to Cyrus.

[Oldcartoons571]

@nationalist19 yeah uhhhhhhhhh bullshit

[nik2495]

I watched this show a while ago and I still love it. Plus I imidiatly bought Rome Total war after this show.

[Nightmeare]

Shouldn't hoplites be used first to form the first weak line and after them the wall of steel , the phalanxes?

[benja1709]

@Nightmeare by doing that u will waist the hoplites

[Nightmeare]

@benja1709 yes but by doing that dont u weak the enemy and the phlanxes will take less damage.

[RioGiovanni]

did he just say "reccie"?

Fucks sake...

[spitandfire]

the pikemen in the game were far too effective in the game so as long as they had decent experience

[patrickadair1995]

Tuesdays.BBC Two.After the Simpsons and Fresh Prince of Belair. 7 years on and I still remember what I was looking forward to after school. :)

[loroanno]

I don't understand why they stopped making it! It was brilliant television. All we get now are shitty brain rot soap operas.

[wolf99000]

@loroanno same here just think of what they could have done with medevil 2 and empire and the new game

[aliensexgangchildren]

i always wondered where brits get the "f" or "ph" sound from in the word lieutenant

[TheAlexagius]

This is ... rome total war?

[MaulMachine]

@TheAlexagius

Read the goddamned description.

[TheAlexagius]

@MaulMachine its an adapted verson of it..........

[Tom87893010]

@TheAlexagius They made a game out of the engine used for this programme

[TheAlexagius]

@Tom87893010 this is more realistic rome is very historicly inacurate rome realism and diodochi mods are needed for rome

[Mrkid143]

hold em by the nose lol

[FaakedLillebror]

IT WASSNT Darius the Great alex faced... it was Darius the 3rd.... FAIL!!!

[erestor629]

@Ifc4lyfdalton lol yeah your right BUT people on this show use tactics which would be used today, and not tactics which a "game" would use etc.

but on the other hand, lol this was a great battle real time AND on a game!!!!! ^^

[GorinRedspear]

they even use the names from rtw. they're not pike phalanx, they are the pezetairoi

[lemonspoon11]

@GorinRedspear yeah, because the viewing public are going to understand THAT.

They're pikemen, and they're fighting in a phalanx. simples!

[Oldcartoons571]

@GorinRedspear He didnt lose any battles...His men not wanting to go on had nothing to do with his skill or there trust in him.

[GorinRedspear]

not really. he inherited the best army in the world, and the best generals of the time and a ready to go campaign plan from his father. but when that plan ended, with the capture of the persian empire, he made his own plans and his army started to rebel, his generals started to betray him, and he started to lose or win pyrrhic battles

[Oldcartoons571]

@GorinRedspear Since when???? He led the army through Persia himself. He fought the battles..He led the army...He made the decisions. In the same way that yeah Rome already had armies Caesar had to lead them himself though. Carthage already had money yet their commanders had to lead the army themselves. By the way Alexanders men didnt want to go on because of how much fighting they had already done...and because of the reports of how large the enemy army was including 100s of elephants.

[firecard]

they got to make another one season with richand hammond and they should be using the medival total and empire total war

[geek147]

i used to love this show

[XBOXComplete]

same!

i was only like 7 when it was on!

[Morr1992]

@XBOXComplete Well then you can't be much older, the game has got only 6 years.

[maddympkv]

these guyz are selected...only those who dont know these games are selected

[lokna]

lmao and same music from rome total wr! it is rome total war:) lol love it:)

[lokna]

lol good old rome total war:D haha:)

[darrin42]

God I loved this Show

[VOLK2234]

Very few people know that 30.000 Greeks were fighting on the Persian side, against Alexander.

In one occasion, the commanders reported Alexander that the Greeks from the Macedonian side and the Greeks from Persian side started to fight.

Alexander replied:

"I dont care for a battle of mices. "

[konst262]

@VOLK2234 i cant believe how many bullshits you said. First of all it shows clear that you know nothing about him.No greek languge, seriously? Just becase you have no history does not mean you have to steall of others. Why you just cant admit you are of slavic and albanian origin and maby some of you greek? Do you know that Alexander means protector of men in greek and Philip means friend of horses . But you would know that if you knew greek.

[Tareltonlives]

The teams lost 9 times out of 16 in the first season and three out of eight times in the second. You can lose if you do something really stupid (like Marathon, Pharsalus Chalons, and Watling Street), and sometimes even when you're decent (Cannae, Mons Graupinus, Adrianople, and Hastings)

[MobiusCoin]

No matter what happens in this battle, I'm going to give a salute to the players because Gaugamela is quite a beast to tame. Certainly not an easy battle to win.

[AlexThePrivate]

Makedonian Phalangites you dumbass hoplites were greek shit.

[AlexThePrivate]

You call those guys Macedonian hoplites?In reality they use no shields so how could they be hoplites???Hoplite name came from hoplon the large greek shield.You are too dumbass shut up

[asmodeus585]

Macedonians were Greek, my friend. Not totally, but they were as close to them as Australians are to Brits. They also used the Greek language. Besides, in this battle it was clearly said that those hoplites were the Greek allies of Alexander.

[VOLK2234]

And French are English.

There was no language such as "Greek" back then.

[asmodeus585]

Of course there was. Ancient Greek was actually the 'lingua franca' in Hellenistic times. In the Mediterranean sphere it was almost as popular as English is now worldwide.

[konst262]

@VOLK2234 And "I dont care for a battle of mices. "? You dump idiot he would not say that for anyone especialy his own people he was called the great not only because he was a good general but because he cared about his men. I have read every historical book writen from historians of the ancient times and nowhere writes those things . Also all of them included roman and others writes that he was greek and Macedonians where greeks too. If you call yourself Macedonians then you are greek.

[AlexThePrivate]

Hoplites and Phalanxes are very diffferent in tactics.People is always confusing them.Phalanxes got small shields and large sarisas to push enemy with them.Hoplites pushed enemy with big shiels and spear and sword to stab the enemy.

[deathpunish2]

Phalanx is the formation of the hoplites the Macedonian phalanx was built to improve attack while lessens defense phalanx is not a group of troops it is formation and hoplites are troops so the two are not compatible

[asmodeus585]

You mispelled the second unit. It's Phalangites, not 'phalanxes'.

[AlexThePrivate]

WTF did i said in the other comment my dumbass o.o Phalangites is the greek word adapted to english you moron!Phalanxes is the english word my.

[AlexThePrivate]

Same shit like macedonia and makedonia my dumbass xd

[asmodeus585]

I'm afraid you're wrong. Phalanx is the name of a formation, not a unit of troops. Phalangites are pikemen who fought in this formation. Do you see the difference now? ; ]

[Tareltonlives]

@asmodeus585

Just call them pezhetaroi

[DrunkPotatoMan]

ROME TOTAL WAR FTW!

[ImThePutz]

Erm...Its ' Fortune favors the Bold ' Not brave...

[thatkindofguy234]

i thought that that as well :P

[deathpunish2]

I guess they got it from Rome total wars cause in there its fortune favors the brave

[genesis1471]

naa richard hammond is better than eddie mair, eddie mair has no facial expressions

[genesis1471]

wheres richard hammond?

[iWillGoogleYourName]

This is series one, series 2 employed hammond and runied time commanders!

[Zupon94]

This shows the macedonian pikemen holding a large sheild with one arm and their pike with the other hand. In reality however, the macedonian pike, or sarissa, was so long that the infantrymen using it had to use both hands to keep it steady. They still had a shield, it was just strapped to their arm so their hand would be free to hold the pike.

[Pyromaniac1230]

Also, the macedonians never really used the Lambda on their shields. There is no real evidence of anybody but the Spartans using this to symbolize their hometown's region called Lakedaimon. Also, the units of spear-wielding infantry aren't called hoplites, but phalangites, since these are only named thus because of the shield's name, the hoplon. As Zupon94 said, the macedonian pikemen couldn't hold their shield, and thus they couldn't possibly hold a shield as big as a hoplon AND a spear.

[Rukar145]

I just realised how they nicked the spqr cinematic for their opening, hehe :)

[0m12]

Yeah, not only is it quite unprofessional of them, surely you'd think making their own cinematic would cost less than ripping a hole through space-time in order to obtain the footage.

(Which is an unnecessarily sarky way to say that the series was made before R:TW iself was released, never letalone the SPQR modification :P)

[Rukar145]

Indeed.

On a more serious note, I recently found out it came as a trailer from Medieval: Total War, which the SPQR team and Time Commanders both nicked.

[0m12]

Aha, that makes sense, I heard something somewhere about it being from a trailer. Would've been a peculiarly impressive piece of work for a RTW mod, though looking at the current Roma Surrectum 2 previews, I wouldn't be surprised...

[venom117]

Seriously man, thanks for uploading all of these.

[DonSickleWarlord]

wait a fucking minute... I remember this!

[aronpo666]

no the show not airin..is a shame... but i agree the game was biased to the players they rarely lose and always manage get lucky

[Dingobat4]

This is definetly the best battle in Time Commanders.

[juanpio]

I used to love this show...2006?

[warlordexpert]

Yeah, ill send you the link if i can dig out the article, it was a while ago though but ill do my best

[getintoawheelchair]

is this show still airing on BBC? is it on BBC america as well?

[Foozlethegreat]

no it stopped airing :(

I DO hope they'll bring it back though

[aekhoo]

Is it? They SHOULD be able to lose. Booo.

[HowitzerBug]

That's not true, a number of teams lost throughout the series'.

[li0nf00d]

pretty damn cool

[Legolasas26]

ughh..they prove nothing in the frigging show , they just play on a massive screen at their own leisure and then in the end they talk shit on a table with a few legos without knowing what theyre talking about , they dont even have experience in war strategy

[warlordexpert]

I read on the internet Nusbacher had a sex change after the show ended in 2004

[xertexxetrex]

OMG LOL

[MILHIST7fireandsteel]

Thanks for the upload, been looking for this series forever. Best use of gaming on television I've ever seen, and the explainations of the strategies used are so well summerized. I love it!

[evilpuspin]

Your welcome.

[monkeynutz6575]

at 2:56 check the operators hands when the experts are standing next to him, he looks like an evil genius! lol

[redgrayz]

lol

[fourganger88]

He also has the classic evil genius facial hair.

[spartanK42]

yey aryeh nusbacher is here

[GEORGE94123]

Does anyone know where to get time commanders on DVD?

[ronaldofootball7]

they should do the battle of waterloo with empire

[PzGrenadiere]

We should hound them until they bring it back! there are many battles left to be fought! And now they can be done with Medieval II or Empire Total War!

[4149]

thanks for uploading this :) they should bring it back?

[evilpuspin]

Your welcome. =)

I hope they do.

[DannyJamesRead]

yeah its educational and its fun

[RomeoDogShot]

lol rome total war

[kanenkitten]

actually this was made before RTW existed

[illegallyUgly]

it's the same engine.

[Coveredfire01]

if you ever watched the show on tv, you could see at the end of the show in the credits that the engine (game) was provided by Creative Assembly.

[kanenkitten]

I know, I have seen the programme.

What I said was that this was broadcast before RTW was released

[adyingbreed82]

yes it was

[koolkatfelix]

Aryeh Nusbacher got a sex change.....now he... or she...is known as...Lynette Nusbacher.....

[davidnorena1]

he as ingeious

[yifanwang99]

Thanks for uploading.......again :)

[fourganger88]

Where are Darius' Greek mercs? They would have made this a bit more challenging for them.

[Tareltonlives]

They're briefly seen, but they're not significant enough to note, I guess, even though they were the best Persian infantry along with the Immortals and armored Sparabara

[anevlavis21]

Greekmacedonian rules

[JAMOM666]

bbc rules xD!!!

[sagilian]

wicked!!! but my buffering seem really slow

[Tareltonlives]

This should be awesome. Two of the best armies in antiquity in Alexander's finest victory.

[FutureWarrior2006]

Nice! thanks for uploading!

[aaron9099]

"fortune favours the brave" thats not a bad analogy lol

never works for me though :P

[dogezon]

should of used the alexander expansion

[korenmkd]

But remember, You Are Macedonians!!! WE. Macedonians. Lions.

[mashlikesgolfface]

they shud do a series with the new empire: total war...i'd love to see this sort of thing in the age of horse and musket

[leeham991]

FUCKING HELL!!!!

THANK YOU!

*kisses you in a purely non gay way*

[evilpuspin]

haha no problem and i hope so xD

[arghdunnowattoput]

aye haha ive still got some on tape like most of the first series but they get old :(

might email lion and see what they can do - im loyal enough to total war haha

[evilpuspin]

lol you can try, but i very much doubt they will do anything now lol, theyve moved on from tht series by now, but i read an old artcile about a time commander 2.0, but it was written around 2005 so who knows ;)

[arghdunnowattoput]

ty for uploading dude - why the hell dont they bring out series one on dvd - if they have... please tell me!

[evilpuspin]

thanks man =) no they havent brought a DVD out yet, but i wish they would, id definetly purchase it, it was one of my favourite programs =p

[rennylaloo]

was hee really d guy hu cheated on millionare?? btw ty 4 uploading

[evilpuspin]

haha no it wasnt the guy who cheated lol ;)

[UKRThracian]

I thought that too! haha :D

Why did they let charles ingram on there

[evilpuspin]

haha =p He wouldnt get very in this game by listening to someone coughing lol ;)

[GeneralBelesarius]

i bet the prince will like it.

[evilpuspin]

I will say yes and No ;) ;)

[PrinceofMacedon]

Yes, this is one of the most interesting episodes =)

[evilpuspin]

yeah these players done rather well. It was a little messy with sending the cavalry in alone early on and then sending the mighty alexander to his death didnt help lol =p

[anduril38]

Maybe so, but they still did extremely well. Probably one of the best teams in the series. Having to win a battle where they were as outnumbered as they were, depsite their troop superiority, was a tough task.