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Post by martin on Dec 12, 2016 19:16:59 GMT
For those with access to UK TV, at 2100 GMT/UTC / 9pm tonight on BBC 4 there's a new series of Time Commanders, in which players take one side in computer moderated re-enactments of battles from history.
Tonight - ZAMA.
Martin
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Post by Haardrada on Dec 13, 2016 23:52:58 GMT
I watched it on catch up and was impressed.
Its Waterloo next week.
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Post by valis on Dec 15, 2016 6:36:38 GMT
I knew I'd seen a trailer for this somewhere. I'll watch it on catch-up whilst the little one is in his jumperoo.
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Post by valis on Dec 15, 2016 10:15:28 GMT
Just watched it and it was fun, although I thought the Roman commander was quite pompous.
It was amusing when his rehearsed line of: "By Jupiter, we have them!" was followed by a bunch of his troops getting their heads kicked off.
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Post by martin on Dec 15, 2016 21:15:23 GMT
Just watched it and it was fun, although I thought the Roman commander was quite pompous. It was amusing when his rehearsed line of: "By Jupiter, we have them!" was followed by a bunch of his troops getting their heads kicked off. Tongue in cheek, perhaps. ?? Typically English way of playing to the camera  . Had a certain 'modern aristo' authenticity, I thought  |
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Post by valis on Dec 16, 2016 2:12:21 GMT
Possibly, although this seemed a rather risky thing to do with the testosterone-filled Scottish wrestlers bristling at his Englishness!! |
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Post by martin on Dec 16, 2016 19:35:53 GMT
Possibly, although this seemed a rather risky thing to do with the testosterone-filled Scottish wrestlers bristling at his Englishness!! Ruffling the feathers of our neighbours is an English pastime.....yes, unwise, and possibly risky, but also hard to resist (and often done with no thought whatsoever as to the consequences). Centuries of insensitivity is very hard to grow out of......  . We've practiced, globally, until we're very very good at it. M (Realistically, I would imagine the Scots just thought the guy was doing a graaand job of living up to the English stereotype - you just can't teach that stuff....) |
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Post by Haardrada on Dec 16, 2016 21:45:41 GMT
Possibly, although this seemed a rather risky thing to do with the testosterone-filled Scottish wrestlers bristling at his Englishness!! Ruffling the feathers of our neighbours is an English pastime.....yes, unwise, and possibly risky, but also hard to resist (and often done with no thought whatsoever as to the consequences). Centuries of insensitivity is very hard to grow out of...... . We've practiced, globally, until we're very very good at it. M (Realistically, I would imagine the Scots just thought the guy was doing a graaand job of living up to the English stereotype - you just can't teach that stuff....) I used to love this sort of banter when I worked onshore/off shore in Scotland, even down to the expectation and silence before and during the weekly screening of "Still Game".😆 I must admit before the lads who went Roman spoke I knew what to expect and wanted to see them fail. |
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Post by Haardrada on Dec 24, 2016 10:48:44 GMT
Time Commanders on Tuesday 27th December is about Attila the Hun.😊
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Post by sonic on Dec 24, 2016 11:42:05 GMT
Oh dear ...
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Post by sonic on Dec 27, 2016 21:33:40 GMT
Just watching the (recorded) TC on Catalaunian Plains. Apparently, Aetius was, in effect, 'the king of Gaul'. Talk about dumbing it down ....
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Post by valis on Dec 30, 2016 6:31:45 GMT
Just watching the (recorded) TC on Catalaunian Plains. Apparently, Aetius was, in effect, 'the king of Gaul'. Talk about dumbing it down .... We all know the King of Gaul was Vitalstatistix! |
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. Had a certain 'modern aristo' authenticity, I thought 
. We've practiced, globally, until we're very very good at it.