The Russians are coming, and they’re bringing Tom Chick with them to talk about Wargame: European Escalation. Bruce, Troy, and Rob take the field to share their enthusiasm for Wargame and how it makes some smart revisions to its predecessor, RUSE. They discuss its clever approach to LOS rules and unit spotting, how it blends […]
Entries from March 17th, 2012
Three Moves Ahead Episode 160 – No Standing on the European Escalator to War
March 17th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Wargame: Equipment Escalation
March 15th, 2012 · 13 Comments · RTS
We talk in detail about Wargame: European Escalation in this week’s podcast, and it’s a great show because Tom and Rob and Bruce have some great exchanges about why the game works. WEE is really a good game that shows that Eugen Systems understands real time strategy design as a studio at a level we […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 159 – Bruce and Julian’s iPad Adventure
March 9th, 2012 · 33 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Hold onto your black t-shirts and skim lattes! It’s all iPad, all the time on 3MA, as Bruce declares the iPad the greatest platform for strategy games, and Julian explains why the real story of the iPad announcement is the iPad 2 price drop. Then, this being Bruce and Julian, they fall to arguing minutiae […]
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Planes vs. Nazis: Blitz on iPad
March 7th, 2012 · 10 Comments · WW2
It’s weird when someone directly addresses a game design question you’ve been puzzling over, but never thought would be answered. Last year, I wrote a series of articles about simulation, Gary Grigbsy’s Eagle Day, and the Battle of Britain. I started out wondering how you’d ever make a casual Euro out of something like the […]
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Spring Board Game Meetup
March 5th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Blogs, Board Games, Me, Podcast
Since the last meetup in November was such a success, I think we should do it again. It was a small but fun group of readers and listeners late last year, and the location was great. People should have gotten new games for Christmas, lots of new war stories and hopefully some new guests can […]
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Conquest of Elysium 3 and the Sudden Sting of Death
March 4th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Indie Games, Review
I still hold that Conquest of Elysium 3 is an ugly game, and not ugly in the way of traditional roguelikes. It is ugly in the manner of a good and dear friend that could do basic grooming but chooses not to – all the game’s charm, variety and literary wit would be better revealed […]
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