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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Three Moves Ahead Episode 148 – Unity of Command
December 22nd, 2011 · 61 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 147 – Fire No Guns, Shed No Tears
December 16th, 2011 · 18 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
A heavily medicated Rob hosts Julian, Troy, and Bruce to explain what’s so boring about peace, love, and understanding. Why does strategy gaming usually come back to armed conflict, with the exception of city-builders? Do most people really even want games about other subjects, and can designers make good games out of them? What ever [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 146: On the Air
December 8th, 2011 · 20 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
It’s more a fancy lecture and masterwork design class than a bunch of guys guessing about what works when board game desiger Lee Brimmicombe-Wood sits down with Troy and Bruce to talk about his history of making games about air power, the challenges in getting all the cool technical bits down and the difficulties in [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 145 – Q&A with R&T
December 3rd, 2011 · 6 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
When you’re too busy for a real topic, it’s good to have listeners that are ready with questions. Rob and Troy take some time to answer your queries. Games we hate, the definition of RTS, whether Paradox has a subgenre monopoly and much more. Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes.
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Question Time!
November 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Three Moves Ahead
We don’t all have Tim Tebow at the ready to just stop sucking at the last minute and pull out a win. So this week moved along nicely and then we realized we didn’t have a topic for this week’s podcast (since we are recording next week’s on Saturday, and assumed everything was in hand, [...]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 144 – Risky Business with Rob Daviau
November 24th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Friend of the show and returning guest Rob Daviau joins Rob and Julian to talk about his new game, Risk: Legacy. They talk about how Legacy uses unlocks and persistent changes to deepen the standard Risk experience. Daviau describes lessons learned during playtesting about how players learn games and fail to make good long-term decisions. [...]
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