It has seemed liked every year for the last three has been a transitional year for some reason, and the blog always suffers a little. This year, with a change in city and profession, was more transitional than anticipated, so I played fewer games freshly, and was constrained in what I could really say about […]
Entries from December 31st, 2011
Holiday Guest Blog 4: Rob Daviau “Elements of Risk”
December 30th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Board Games, Guest Blog
Rob Daviau has been a friend of the podcast for a while, and a friend of Julian Murdoch even longer. He works for Hasbro and his appearance on Episode 144 to talk about his design of Risk: Legacy was one of the more popular shows of 2011. Risk gets a lot of flak on the […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 149: On the Care and Feeding of BattleMechs
December 29th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Rob hosts a conversation with Catalyst Game Labs’ Randall Bills and Piranha Games’ Russ Bullock and Bryan Ekman. Such a group can only mean one thing: BattleTech discussion. Does the BattleTech board game hold up after all these years? Do the various BattleTech and MechWarrior games and books create difficult expectations for what a mech […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 148 – Unity of Command
December 22nd, 2011 · 61 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Rob and Troy talk about 2×2’s new entry-level wargame, Unity of Command, and why it is such a huge success. How does it stack up against Panzer Corps, and why is it more a wargame than a puzzle game? Why is its treatment of supply so important? Can you make a really challenging wargame without […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 3: Michael Barnes “Strategy Games on Tap”
December 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Guest Blog
Michael Barnes is one of the quintet at No High Scores, a gaming blog run by my friends and former colleagues at Gameshark. Barnes is the site’s board game authority and his Cracked LCD column is something I regularly read if Bill Abner can’t answer my question immediately over Google Talk. But Barnes is also […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 2: Jon Shafer “The Middle Market”
December 20th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Guest Blog, Industry
Stardock’s Jon Shafer is one of those developers who thinks very hard about everything except joining our Out of the Park Baseball League, which he did as a “Why not?” more than anything else, it seems. Best known as the designer of AAA title Civilization 5, Jon wanted to use this space to again push […]
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