Time Commanders: The battle of Silarus river 1/5

Time Commanders is a series of programmes made by Lion TV for BBC Two that ran for two seasons from 2003 to 2005.

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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Entertainment

Tags:

• time
• commanders
• rome
• total
• war
• ancient
• famous
• historical
• battle
• gladiator
• spartacus
• slave
• rebellion
• silarus
• river

[comedychick14]

i CANNOT believe aryeh got a sex change. thats ridculous

[evilpuspin]

Google ;)

[space197]

wow this brought back memories, i can remember watching this show, too bad it got canceled.

[Ilathion]

Hehe my favourite show when I was younger.

[andresrojas22]

im having nightmares with Lynette

[Veldtian1]

''To you who are about to die, we salute you!'' ( Tigris of Gaul - Gladiator)

[oliverj5610]

@MrEoghan96 Yea haha, cannot believe they made a show of a game, FUCKING BRILLIANT THOUGH

[Elesparto]

Long live the name Spartacus!!!

[WojekSiren]

Wow, a 3 way battle against the Romans. I think these guys got there work cut out for them.

[Oldcartoons571]

@comedychick14 how is it ridiculous 

[Oldcartoons571]

@comedychick14 how

[Deadman1709]

@dirt0bike00 They use a custom version of the game.

And a super computer I suppose.

[leloric]

the program is edited to do that.

[dirt0bike00]

HOW DO THEY GET 44 THOUSAND ROMANS ON THE FIELD?? i want to put that many but can only get like total 6k troops together if both armies combined...on huge..