Time Commanders: Battle of Chalons Part 1/5

Time Commanders: The Battle of Chalons Part 1.

It uses an edited version of the game engine behind the real-time strategy game Rome: Total War by the Creative Assembly to recreate famous battles of the ancient world.

The battles are replayed by 4-player teams from diverse backgrounds. The teams are unfamiliar with computer games, to make sure their gaming skills do not influence their success. After a brief introduction of the battle, including an overview of military units, terrain and available forces, the players have to develop a strategy and then deploy their forces. Two of the players are selected as generals, who will direct the battle and have access to a strategic map. The other two players are designated lieutenants, the units are indirectly controlled by the lieutenants, who issue commands to program assistants, who in turn use the game interface to control the units.

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[MudkipBlackieChan9k]

god i love this show. They need more shows like this.

[YiddoBobbins]

It's a shame they haven't done a seperate series of this for each of the Total War games since Rome - they'd look steadily better with the regularly improved graphics, and offer an interesting variety of time periods and warfare types.

[andresrojas22]

5:25 wtf is that a skirt?

[commandosserftw]

innit27 you penis is dwarf! :D

[innit27]

attila the dwarf!

[hegs100]

I loved this show, too. I got a great tie-in book that came out at the time - "Time Commanders: Great Battles of the Ancient World". Lots of background and analysis of the actual battles. You can still get it new on Amazon, cheap (mind you I got mine as a present, so I'm not complaining!). It's illustrated with 'stills' from the programme, some as if at close-quarters, and some 'helicopter views' showing the battle formations.  Great stuff!

[joshtong1234]

Rome is pretty much the best Total War I played. Only TW I havent played is Med1 and Shogun1

[xXRoNinBBBXx]

Guys Atilla was not that cruel. Most people who call Atilla cruel are some christian "scholars" of that time.

Atilla may not be as chivalrious as Cyrus The Great from Persia or Alexander The Great from Macedon, but still he was not that fucked up as the so called "Scholars" want him to apear.

Read some books about him and you will see! Btw Huns where a tribe from the Xiong Nu somewhere in Mongolia. They where close related to Turks. Hungarians are another people who setled there later.

[slydessertfox2]

i personally like Decisive Battles better

[Rattienose]

I remember this show, i used to watch it when i was ill and off school. I could never remember what it was called but remember the cool battle scenes and strategy moves. Yogscast reminded me and luckily, there was a link to the show on the right :P

[FsimulatorX]

@Luolapeikk0 what happend to it?

[Pawnbroker00]

@chocoman45 time commanders was recorded using a beta version of rome total war, which is a lot different to the current version. They also used beta versions of barbarian invasion expansion pack for some of the later episodes like the battle of hastings episode.

A lot of stuff is still hidden in the game files too, some i have activated for my own person enjoyment :)