You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flashsteel.com, and this is episode number 100.

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and I'm not going to say I didn't think we'd make 100, because once we hit 50, I knew we could do 100.

That's easy.

We're halfway there, after all.

100 episodes, woo-hoo.

A big accomplishment for me to get to this number.

And with me today are my two most regular panelists because of their age and brand.

We have freelance writer, Julian Murdoch.

Hello, hello. And we have freelance writer, Julian Murdoch. Hello, hello.

And we have freelance writer Rob Zackney.

Good evening.

So here we are episode 100, and we don't have a topic.

No, I totally have one.

No, you don't.

I really don't, but I have an observation.

What is your observation?

Well, so I figured out something really important about military history just now while I was playing war in the East.

I loaded up the Operation Barbarossa scenario, and I realized something very important,

and that is that Russia actually gets bigger the moment you decide to invade it.

Like, if you look at it... Right, if you look at it on a map and you're not invading Russia, it doesn't actually look that far from like Warsaw to Moscow. Like you're thinking that's totally reasonable. That's doable. The moment you say, okay, we're sending army divisions from Warsaw to Moscow, you're dead. Like Russia's twice the size. You don't even have to actually get to Russia. You just have to approach Russia. That's the Napoleon thing. As soon as you actually think about Russia, distance goes... It reads your intent. What you're saying is Russia is kind of like Doctor Who. It's like the TARDIS. It's bigger in the inside. Yes. Exactly.

Go inside. Okay. I can see that.

So there you go. We should have had you on last week's show. Where were you?

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