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Entries from March 31st, 2012

Three Moves Ahead Episode 162 – Guess Who’s Coming to Podcast?

March 31st, 2012 · 14 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs visits Three Moves Ahead to start discussing plans. As Sean Vanaman mandates a Far Cry 2 episode quota, Troy and Rob begin to realize they have made a deal with a Kickstarter devil. Still, there is more that unites the podcasts the divide them. The panel discusses what their respective podcasts are really […]

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Open Gates in Japan

March 28th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Design

Before I got too invested in playing out The Meiji Restoration in the new Shogun 2 expansion, Fall of the Samurai, I realized that I hadn’t played The Rise of the Samurai – the first Shogun 2 expansion. It too deals with a Japanese civil war, this one in the 12th century over who would […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 161 – Safety in Numbers

March 23rd, 2012 · 16 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

As is appropriate for a week where you join a group of podcasting super-friends, the regular panel of Bruce, Troy, Rob, and Julian gets together to discuss co-op gaming. They share old war stories, co-op and learning, what they want from co-op, and how co-op games employ adversarial and story elements. Julian tells a story […]

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Idly Moving Ahead

March 20th, 2012 · 23 Comments · Three Moves Ahead

So this is big news for the podcast. We get attached to Idle Thumbs, a great and popular (though very different) show that will soon conclude an amazingly successful Kickstarter. Three Moves Ahead moves into even more unknown territory. And I am personally very excited. I’ve said time and time again that 3MA is the […]

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Three Moves Ahead Is All Thumbs

March 20th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Rob and Troy look at the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter and conclude that maybe these crazy kids know what they are doing. Maybe Rob and Troy are crazy kids themselves, and maybe they have a plan so crazy it just might work. They have partnered up with Idle Thumbs, finally giving Three Moves Ahead and its […]

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General Points of Interest

March 19th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Blogs, FoSTV, Me, PAX

I don’t have quite enough for a sustained post, yet, and I’m still editing a music review (yeah, seriously) and my Master of Orion science post. But I should write something since people keep visiting. Also, healthy to keep at it. * I have not been following the news on the upcoming Shogun 2 expansion […]

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