The former Yugoslav president, who directed battles for almost a decade in the Balkans and faces a range of charges, including genocide, told the judges today that he would fight until the tribunal was overthrown.
When the first Arab-Israeli war erupted in 1948, Yitzhak Rabin was a brigade commander, directing battles to keep the highway from Tel Aviv to the besieged Jewish neigbhorhoods of Jerusalem open.
Although the campaign element of the game is turn-based, players can direct battles in real-time.
"How else do you think the battles are directed?" "Our battles are directed, sir?" "Well, of course they are, Blackadder, directed according to the Grand Plan".
Unlike the Persian general, Philippicus remained with a small force at some distance behind the main battle line, directing the battle.
Meanwhile, Commander Shah directed the battle by walkie-talkie.
In 1913, D. W. Griffith directed "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch," a silent Western in which the cavalry annihilated a tribe of dog-eating Indians who attempted to steal puppies belonging to white settler children for a ritual dog feast.
After being loaned out to make the musical The Goldwyn Follies, Marshall directed both Battle of Broadway, a comedy with Gypsy Rose Lee, McLaglen, and Brian Donlevy, and the political satire Hold That Co-Ed (all 1938), with John Barrymore giving a strong performance as a Huey Long-like demagogue.
Suddenly, the most instantly recognisable, and recently newsworthy, players in the Ryder Cup had been pitched into direct battle.
"We know that every direct battle with a promotion rival will be a Champions League final," said Di Canio afterwards.
