Another Nostalgia Hit As Time Commander Returns To TV!
August 1, 2016 by brennon
It seems like we really are living in the late 90's and early 2000's as Time Commanders is going to be returning to TV thanks to a shout out from the BBC asking for teams to apply.
If you don't know what Time Commanders is you can watch one of my favourite episodes of it above. See if you can guess why! It pitted a team playing as an Ancient army from history, split into both Generals and Captains, against another army from the period in a Historical clash.
It was a fantastic show that got my already History loving brain working overtime. It was even better when you met the various experts who watched over the team - especially, Mike Loades (A military history and weapons expert) who is just brilliant.
The show used a version of Rome by the Total War team at Creative Assembly and was only slightly modified on occasion to fit the needs of the battle they were fighting.
Now, of course Rome II exists so hopefully we'll be seeing them bringing this to the forefront for their battles.
While this might sounds excellent the game has suffered from some criticism in terms of the way units behave so it will be interesting to see how it all works on TV. Successive expansions have made the game infinitely more playable however which is good.
If they get this right then we're going to have an excellent show to look forward to. I loved this when I was younger and even went back and re-watched a lot of the episodes when they appeared on Youtube last year.
Do you think you could command mighty armies on Time Commanders?
"It was even better when you met the various experts who watched over the team - especially, Mike Loades..."
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I think this is going to be awesome. Using the newer Rome Total War Engines.
team Bow ftw!
First Robot Wars, now Time commanders 🙂 Loving it. Anything else cool they should bring back? Does anyone remember a show hosted by Craig Charles using VR . I think it was on BBC2 about 6 or 7 ish.
Yeah it was called Cyber Zone. I wasn’t a big fan of it tbh but I still watched it all lol.
Yeah that was better then life lol
So looking forwards to this. I only hope it delivers better than Robot Wars don’t know why just did not enjoy it.
I’ve watched the first two episodes of the ‘new’ Robot Wars now and I’m finding it fairly entertaining. I think though the problem it has is that they really haven’t changed much at all other than to beef up the house robots and make it harder/impossible to flip robots out of the arena by having much higher sides. If you were bored of the show by the time it went off air last time then you aren’t likely to be won back here as it is functionally the same show. The first episode was even packed with returning competitors fielding… Read more »
I used to love this show. I am really hoping they do warhammer fantasy battle now that would be amazing.
I hadn’t heard of this show before last Weekend. Very entertaining and somewhat informative. I think I will watch more of the old episodes online.
a great show with better graphics the new battles should be amazing.