This is the Gameres with Jobs conference call episode 102. And folks, I've got good news for you. You do not

have to have listened to the other 1001 episodes to follow the storyline this week. And that

storyline this week is that I'm joined by my co-host, Amanda Nolton. Hello, Amanda. Hello, good

morning. Good afternoon. Good evening.

Yeah. Whenever you're listening to it, good that. And we also have a special guest today who's,

I think, going to help you all understand the allure of horses and muskets and gentlemanly combat.

Joining the Gamer's with Jobs conference call today is one Rob Zackney.

Rob, hello, welcome to the show.

Welcome back to the show.

Oh, thanks for having me.

Thanks for indulging my goodwill tour on behalf of warfare in the age of enlightenment. And this recording time sounded

a lot better before I was up until like one of the morning watching the Chicago Bears steal a

win against the Packers. So I am fately shattered. That's, I mean, hey, that's a, that's, yep, I called that right before the recording.

I was like, there was a, there was a Bears related event last night.

And I'm, I'm, congratulations on your greatest victory of all time.

And I'm sorry that you are shattered like so many lined

amateur novice musketeers upon a heavy cavalry charge. But at least it's for a good reason.

So we got a fun show this week. We are going to be discussing a little bit of how the sausage is made process for our selecting our game

of the year list and avoiding recency bias.

But before we get into that, we're going to talk about games we have been playing.

And Rob, you and I have been playing a little game called Master of Command, not to be confused with the

movie Master and Commander, or the books Master and Commander. Master and Commander, that's two

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