Totally OT: Time Commanders

[RogerJNeilson]

This has been dredged up from a series that was last run decades ago... It uses the Total War engine to 'recreate' battles from history and puts a team of players on each side to refight it. Last night was Waterloo. There are snippets where you see the off weapon being used to demonstrate what they looked like and what they did, but then the 'battles' commence. Genius commands like 'run all your infantry there', and 'what units have we got left?' culminate in Napoleon and Wellington charging into a final melee where Napoleon gets killed..... I kid you not.

Oh dear, oh dear, dumbing down.....

Time Commanders

If you can get it on Iplayer one way or another its worth the few minutes to see a Brown Bess discharge or a cavalry sabre take a coconut apart, but that's it folks.

Roger

[geofflambert]

Time Lords laugh at the silliness Time Commanders (hah!) engage in. Below on the left you see two Time Commanders, Claire Boothe and Henry Luce. Did they have a Tardis as seen on the right? I think not.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

This has been dredged up from a series that was last run decades ago... It uses the Total War engine to 'recreate' battles from history and puts a team of players on each side to refight it. Last night was Waterloo. There are snippets where you see the off weapon being used to demonstrate what they looked like and what they did, but then the 'battles' commence. Genius commands like 'run all your infantry there', and 'what units have we got left?' culminate in Napoleon and Wellington charging into a final melee where Napoleon gets killed..... I kid you not.

Oh dear, oh dear, dumbing down.....

Time Commanders

If you can get it on Iplayer one way or another its worth the few minutes to see a Brown Bess discharge or a cavalry sabre take a coconut apart, but that's it folks.

Roger

Could we be a little less patronizing? They're just having fun plugging a historical battle into an RTS platform as a mod because they can. I don't think you're supposed to take it seriously as a reenactment/simulation. Total War is a perfectly fine RTS game, by the way.

Sheesh.

[geofflambert]

Time Lords take nothing seriously.

[Lokasenna]

Of course not, they're British.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

This has been dredged up from a series that was last run decades ago... It uses the Total War engine to 'recreate' battles from history and puts a team of players on each side to refight it. Last night was Waterloo. There are snippets where you see the off weapon being used to demonstrate what they looked like and what they did, but then the 'battles' commence. Genius commands like 'run all your infantry there', and 'what units have we got left?' culminate in Napoleon and Wellington charging into a final melee where Napoleon gets killed..... I kid you not.

Oh dear, oh dear, dumbing down.....

Time Commanders

If you can get it on Iplayer one way or another its worth the few minutes to see a Brown Bess discharge or a cavalry sabre take a coconut apart, but that's it folks.

Roger

warspite1

Thanks - I'll take a look. I loved Time Commanders back in the day [:)]

[Anachro]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Of course not, they're British.

But there is an importance in being earnest. [:)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Of course not, they're British.

But there is an importance in being earnest. [:)]

Shouldn't Earnest be capitalized? And what makes him so danged important anyway? Does he make more money than the rest of us?

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Anachro

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Of course not, they're British.

But there is an importance in being earnest. [:)]

Shouldn't Earnest be capitalized? And what makes him so danged important anyway? Does he make more money than the rest of us?

Well, Earnest Hemingway did, and he reported that his twin brother Ernest wrote nothing but utter crap.

[RogerJNeilson]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

This has been dredged up from a series that was last run decades ago... It uses the Total War engine to 'recreate' battles from history and puts a team of players on each side to refight it. Last night was Waterloo. There are snippets where you see the off weapon being used to demonstrate what they looked like and what they did, but then the 'battles' commence. Genius commands like 'run all your infantry there', and 'what units have we got left?' culminate in Napoleon and Wellington charging into a final melee where Napoleon gets killed..... I kid you not.

Oh dear, oh dear, dumbing down.....

Time Commanders

If you can get it on Iplayer one way or another its worth the few minutes to see a Brown Bess discharge or a cavalry sabre take a coconut apart, but that's it folks.

Roger

Could we be a little less patronizing? They're just having fun plugging a historical battle into an RTS platform as a mod because they can. I don't think you're supposed to take it seriously as a reenactment/simulation. Total War is a perfectly fine RTS game, by the way.

Sheesh.

Sorry no I cannot dial down the patronizing level, it is hard wired. I am not having a go at Total War, I am having a go at a TV programme that has about as much touch with reality as the film that shall not be named.....

The format suggests you are supposed to take it seriously....

Roger

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

This has been dredged up from a series that was last run decades ago... It uses the Total War engine to 'recreate' battles from history and puts a team of players on each side to refight it. Last night was Waterloo. There are snippets where you see the off weapon being used to demonstrate what they looked like and what they did, but then the 'battles' commence. Genius commands like 'run all your infantry there', and 'what units have we got left?' culminate in Napoleon and Wellington charging into a final melee where Napoleon gets killed..... I kid you not.

Oh dear, oh dear, dumbing down.....

Time Commanders

If you can get it on Iplayer one way or another its worth the few minutes to see a Brown Bess discharge or a cavalry sabre take a coconut apart, but that's it folks.

Roger

Could we be a little less patronizing? They're just having fun plugging a historical battle into an RTS platform as a mod because they can. I don't think you're supposed to take it seriously as a reenactment/simulation. Total War is a perfectly fine RTS game, by the way.

Sheesh.

Sorry no I cannot dial down the patronizing level, it is hard wired. I am not having a go at Total War, I am having a go at a TV programme that has about as much touch with reality as the film that shall not be named.....

The format suggests you are supposed to take it seriously....

Roger

Well, they're British, right?

Maybe it's just really dry humor. Although you're from there, so... who knows?