visuals, due to the BBC's rules against product placement; however Rome: Total War makers The Creative Assembly were named in the credits of the show with a specific mention of them providing the game engine. Related media A tie-in book was written by Peter Harrison and published by Virgin Books in 2004, called Time Commanders: Great Battles of the Ancient World. It covered the 16 battles of the first series, along with details of all the contestants in each of the teams, which battle and which army they each played and whether they won or lost the battle they had been given. Airings Episodes Series 1 (2003): Trebia (218 BC) Watling Street (AD 60 or 61) Bibracte (58 BC) Mons Graupius (AD 83) Tigranocerta (69 BC) Pharsalus (48 BC) Cannae (216 BC) Raphia (217 BC) Qadesh (1274 BC) Leuctra (371 BC) Adrianople (AD 378) Telamon (225 BC) Gaugamela (331 BC) Chalons (AD 451) Marathon (490 BC) Silarus River (71 BC) Series 2 (2005): Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) Stamford Bridge (AD 1066) Hydaspes (326 BC) Cynoscephalae (197 BC) Dara (AD 530) Troy (circa 1200s BC) Hastings (AD 1066) Sarmizegethusa (AD 106) Series 3 (2016): Battle of Zama 202 BC The Battle of Waterloo, June 1815 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 451 AD (same battle as series 1, episode 14, under a different name) References External links 2003 British television series debuts 2016 British television series endings BBC television game shows 2000s British game shows 2010s British game shows Machinima works Television series by All3Media British television series revived after cancellation BBC television documentaries about prehistoric and ancient history BBC television documentaries about medieval history BBC television documentaries about history during the 18th and 19th centuries