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* [[Idiot Ball|Idiot Volleyball]]

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Usually averted; for most of the series, the producers explicitly avoided letting people with previous gaming experience on the show. However, in the Battle of Troy, the show ''did'' get a group of gamers, including some who claimed to play strategy games. {{spoiler|They barely pulled a [[Pyrrhic Victory]] out of the fight, with little of their own force remaining.}}

** This has been [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] as well; some episodes had teams of military men or people with military experience playing the game.<br /><br />In the first season, a team of instructors from the Bristol Army Cadet Force took command for the Battle of Chalons. {{spoiler|They were utterly defeated.}}<br /><br />In the second season, actual officers from the British Army and Royal Air Force comprised the team playing the Battle of Hydaspes River. All four not only had plenty of modern military experience, but were learned in battles of the ancient world. {{spoiler|They still got crushed.}}

** This has been [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] as well; some episodes had teams of military men or people with military experience playing the game.

:In the first season, a team of instructors from the Bristol Army Cadet Force took command for the Battle of Chalons. {{spoiler|They were utterly defeated.}}

:In the second season, actual officers from the British Army and Royal Air Force comprised the team playing the Battle of Hydaspes River. All four not only had plenty of modern military experience, but were learned in battles of the ancient world. {{spoiler|They still got crushed.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Aryeh Nusbacher and ''(especially)'' Mike Loades can get particularly enthusiastic as commentators. In the second season, Mike Loades even gets to provide demonstrations for the viewers at home of how the weapons of a given episode's battle were used.

** Aryeh's hamminess is best seen in the "Post-Mortem" phase of the show where the historians demonstrate on the tactical board how the battle of the episode went in history. In the Leuctra episode, Eddie Mair advised the team to stand back.