Battles can also be determined by terrain.

Battles can be fought on land, sea and in the modern age, in the air.

A possible influence from World War One, if one must be found, can be seen in the terming of the 5 Battles of Beleriand as Battles when each actually contains more than one battle and, like the Battle of the Somme, more properly might be called an Offensive.

Battles in Rome: Total War can feature thousands of individual soldiers, organised into ' units '.

Battles take place on a separate screen, but all characters ( rather than waiting in one spot and taking damage ) are fully mobile in three dimensions, can dodge and chase foes, and must cast their spells and deploy attacks despite enemy harassment.

He endorses Tama drums, and is also well known for his Zildjian K ride cymbal perched as high as it can go when playing with Battles.

* Team Battles, in which one can fight with up to 11 characters.

* Team Elimination Battles, in which one has to finish his or her opponents off with Fatals ( finishing moves similar to Mortal Kombats Fatalities, which can be executed immediately ) instead of simply depleting their life bar with normal moves, or they will simply return later on in the match ( however as the computer player will sometimes use Gargos as the last opponent, victims can be removed from play anyway as he lacks a finishing move ).

Battles can take place on a planet ( land battle ) or above the planet ( space battle ).

* The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles ( 2002 ), a motivational book that investigates the psychology of creating art and how " writer's block " can be cured.

Battles can be conducted either in real time or in a turn-based mode, where the player can take time determining what enemies to attack or what spells to cast.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

' I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed ; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, [...] Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate.

The plan for a year of steady attrition on the Western Front, with the main effort in the summer being made by the British Expeditionary Force, was scrapped by Nivelle and the French government for a decisive battle, to be conducted in February by the French army, with the British army's contribution becoming a preliminary operation, the Battles of Arras.

According to Mandos ' prophecy, following Melkor's final return and defeat in the Dagor Dagorath ( Battle of Battles ), the world will be changed and the Silmarils will be recovered by the Valar.

Battles may last anywhere from a half-hour to a whole weekend, and battles may be strung together to form campaigns.

During the 150th commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the famous First and Second Battles of Manassas will be re-enacted.

This battle, especially since Edward Gibbon addressed it in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Sir Edward Creasy wrote his The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, has been considered by many historians to be one of the most important battles of Late Antiquity, at least in the Latin-speaking world.

In Europe, the pedigree of Niall Noígíallach would be contender for the longest, through Conn of the Hundred Battles ( fl.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the " Battles for Leyte Gulf ", and formerly known as the " Second Battle of the Philippine Sea ", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.

Zocchi has designed a few games himself, including Alien Space, Star Fleet Battle Manual ( not to be confused with Star Fleet Battles ), The Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, Flying Tigers, Hardtack, and Battle Wagon Salvo.

The most severe of what came to be known as " the Border Battles " erupted during October and November around Dak To, another border outpost in Kontum Province.

Its slogan, " The Mother of all Games ", was coined in 1991, during the Gulf War, after Saddam Hussein threatened the U. S. that if they stepped on Iraqi soil, it would be " The Mother of all Battles ".

Chikamatsu's popularity peaked with his domestic plays of love-suicides, and with the blockbuster success of The Battles of Coxinga in 1715, but thereafter the tastes of patrons turned to more sensational gore fests and otherwise more crude antics ; Chikamatsu's plays would fall into disuse, so even the actual music would be lost for many plays.

Many times, Battles would set out to attack, and be almost wiped out in the process.

Warren participated in the next day's Battles of Lexington and Concord, which are commonly considered to be the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

The attack was planned to take place on April 19, 1995, to coincide with the anniversary of the Waco Siege and the 220th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

In fact, until French troops advanced to compensate during the Battles of Arras, they encountered no German troops in the planned assault sector.

His further retreat was checked by the German right wing in two blundering battles on August 16 and 18, respectively ( the Battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte ), and he then took refuge behind the defenses of Metz until forced by starvation to surrender on October 29.

In protecting the convoy, Villaret-Joyeuse was forced to engage a 25-ship British fleet in the Battles of Prairial, of which the British referred to the main engagement as the Glorious First of June.

In the Battles for Chattanooga, the corps joined the impulsive assault that captured Missionary Ridge and forced the retreat of Gen. Braxton Bragg.

Burgoyne's campaign ultimately failed and he was forced to surrender after the Battles of Saratoga.

Following the surrender of General John Burgoyne after the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777 and the subsequent entry of France into the war as an American ally, British strategy in dealing with the rebellious Americans was forced to change.

From June 25 to July 1, in a series of battles known as the Seven Days Battles, Lee forced the Army of the Potomac to retreat.

Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran cop who is forced to take a desk job or retire.

* " Atlas ", a single from the album Mirrored by experimental rock group Battles

* Battles Royal-Charles I and the Civil War in Cornwall and the West by H Miles Brown ( Libra Books, 1982 ) ISBN 0-9508009-0-2

Battles are decided by various factors.

When a battleground is the site of more than one battle in the same conflict, the instances are distinguished by ordinal number, such as the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.

Through constant pressure by both infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo.

* Rock band The Flaming Lips perform the song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" on their 2002 release Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

Battles arose through clashes between besiegers and relieving armies, but the principle was a slow grinding victory by the greater economic power.

Wargames also diversified in subject, with the first science-fiction wargame ( Galactic Warfare, published in the UK by Davco ) appearing in 1973 and one of the longest lasting and most successful ( Star Fleet Battles, published by Task Force Games ) appearing in 1979 ; and in size with both microgames such as Steve Jackson's Ogre, and " monster games " appearing during the decade.

* We owe our freedom to GIs who fought by Peter Thomas, veteran of Hurtgen Forest and Bulge Battles

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, sometimes known as the Shot heard ' round the world, in 1775, were started in part because General Gage sought to carry out an order by the British government to disarm the populace.

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.

Planning by Plumer continued but the demands of the Battles of Verdun and the Somme absorbed the offensive capacity of the British Expeditionary Force.

He has been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.

* Poke, The Battle of Tours, from the book Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy, MA

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign took an amphibious approach, landing his Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring of 1862 and coming within of Richmond before being turned back by Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battles.

** Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz