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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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Three Moves Ahead Episode 160 – No Standing on the European Escalator to War

March 17th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

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 […]

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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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Three Moves Ahead Episode 158 – Conquest of Elysium 3

March 1st, 2012 · 42 Comments · Indie Games, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Rob Zacny gets a well earned week off and lets the old people run the show as Troy welcomes Bruce Geryk and Tom Chick to talk about Illwinter’s new game Conquest of Elysium 3. It’s a strategy game, it’s a roguelike, it’s an adventure. Tom talks about how the developers can make the game more […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 157 – Not Quite Back in Action

February 24th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Darius Kazemi and GameSpy Editor-in-Chief Dan Stapleton return to 3MA to discuss Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. Darius wants to know where the role-playing went, while Dan got heartily sick of the pause-and-go system in larger battles. Rob is going to murder whoever came up with the inventory system. All in all, they had an […]

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