Also I am bloody sure that the Time War in which he destroyed Gallifrey happened way back when (unless he traveled through time and saw what was meant to happen in the future to him?). If I am wrong and it happened prior to Eccleston then where am I getting this from? What did he use to bluff the Daleks before when he was Doctor 3/4? He always seemed to use psychology with them and he always seemed to have a bluff of sorts.
Ah, but he always has bluffs. He's not very fond of weapons, as you'll have noticed - and when he relies on weapons he prefers to let other people use them - and his main weapon is psychology. He refers to that explicitly in
The Doctor Dances as his solution to the bomb about to fall. All through his history and regenerations, his main way of dealing with situation is through talking, assessing, predicting how people think and behave and using it against them. That, and running
The old Daleks couldn't climb stairs, so he used that against them too when he could.
The only Time War in the televised series is the one that happened off-screen some time before we encountered Nine first. We don't know how recent it is for him, but it's suggested in
Rose that when he's in her flat is the first time he's actually seen what he looks like in this regeneration, and the general assumption is that the climax of the Time War, when he destroyed his planet to destroy the Daleks, is when the Eighth Doctor died. But there've always been conflicts and interplanetary wars, and the Time Lords and the Daleks are old enemies from throughout the series.
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Doomsday episodes, email or PM me by clicking on the little box above and I can let you know of an alternative means of acquiring them
Wendy
