{"id":3606,"date":"2011-12-29T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:00:04","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-149-on-the-care-and-feeding-of-battlemechs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/29\/three-moves-ahead-episode-149-on-the-care-and-feeding-of-battlemechs\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 149: On the Care and Feeding of BattleMechs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/three-moves-ahead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img3.imageshack.us\/img3\/5442\/itunescounters.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMovesAhead\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rob hosts a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystgamelabs.com\/battletech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catalyst Game Labs&#8217;<\/a> Randall Bills and <a href=\"http:\/\/mwomercs.com\/\">Piranha Games&#8217;<\/a> 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 game &#8220;should&#8221; be? What are the benefits of having a gameworld with so much history, and how do BattleTech-related games tap into it? How do the board games influence the upcoming MechWarrior Online?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystgamelabs.com\/2011\/12\/14\/battletech-25th-anniversary-introductory-box-set-street-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">BattleTech Introductory Box Set<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldoftanks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World of Tanks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/threemovesahead\/ThreeMovesAhead149.mp3\">Listen here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/threemovesahead.libsyn.com\/rss\">RSS here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=307176617\">Subscribe on iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob hosts a conversation with Catalyst Game Labs&#8217; Randall Bills and Piranha Games&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[126,127],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-Wa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}