Time Commanders - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Battle of the Trebia
Tonight's team find themselves in BC, where they take control of Hannibal's Carthaginian army and attempt to defend Trebia in northern Italy from the Romans. Having formulated a strategy, the team send theirtroops into battle, co-ordinating their moves via computers and witnessing the sound and fury of combat through the hi-tech studio set-up.
Battle of Mons Graupius
A team of budding generals attempt to change history in the second of the series of virtual war games. Taking control of the Caledonian army of AD 84 in a bid to defend Scotland from invasion by the Romans at the battle of Mons Graupius, the team's strategy is analysed by two military experts.
Battle of Gaul
Can famous victories be re-created by contestants eager to demonstrate their military guile? Tonight's team find themselves in 58 BC, where they take control of Julius Caesar 's Roman army, fighting for control of Gaul.
Battle of Boudica
More military guile on display as tonight's contestants find themselves in 60 AD controlling a Roman army facing Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, leading a revolt by 60,000 tribesmen. Will the ancient Britons again be defeated?
Battle of Tigranocerta
More military guile on display as tonight's contestants find themselves in 69 BC on the desert battlefield of Tigranocerta. In charge of an Armenian army, they attempt to drive out invading Romans and reverse history.
Battle of Pharsalus
It's 48 BC, and mighty Julius Caesar marshals his army in the civil war for control of the Roman state. Tonight's team of modern-day commanders attempt to defeat the military genius, thus saving the Republic.
Battle of Cannae
In 216 BC, Cannae in southern Italy is the setting for a meeting between a young African general with big ideas and more than 70,000 Roman soldiers assembled to crush his invasion. Can a team of Bedfordshire police officers inflict a humiliating defeat on Rome by re-creating the tactical genius of Hannibal?
Battle of Raphia
The Battle of Raphia in 217 BC saw two nearly identical armies led by heirs of Alexander the Great clash for control of the border territories that separated their rival kingdoms. Will tonight's team of modern-day commanders (Al Murray , Kate Silverton , Ricky Groves and Raji James ) match the winning tactics of Egypt's Ptolemy IV, or will the might of Seleucid kingAntiochos III prevail?
Battle of Qadesh
A team of students from Lord Wandsworth College in Hertfordshire and their history teacher take virtual command of the Hittite army against a young and aggressive Ramses II of Egypt.
Battle of Leuctra
An all-female netball team take virtual command of the Thebes army in a face-off with the mighty Spartans in a re-creation of the battle to claim ancient Greece in 371BC.
Battle of Adrianople
A team of Milton Keynes councillors take virtual command of the Eastern Roman Empire forces in AD 378 as they prepare to repel a throng of Gothic refugees, who have risen in armed revolt in what is now western Turkey.
Battle of Gaugamela
331 BC: in a virtual Gaugamela - present day northern Iraq - a team of childhood friends from London and Sheffield take command of the Macedonian forces of Alexander the Great as they try to conquer a vast army from the Persian Empire. But will close-knit ties prove a hindrance?
Battle of Chalons
AD 451: having pushed the Roman Empire to the brink of collapse, Attila the Hun and his warriors face the forces of their beleaguered enemy at Chalons in France.
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