Good day. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

With me this afternoon for a curiously early recording is my regular panelist, freelance writer Julian Murdoch.

Good morning.

So today we're recording at the ungodly hour of one in the afternoon due to the special

transatlantic nature of this week's show. Our subject is Men of War Salt Squad and the

Men of War series, and I cannot think of another writer who knows more about the subject than rock paper

shotguns, Jim Ross and y'all. Jim, thanks for being on the show. No problem. Thanks for having me.

So, Jim, I wanted to start with you because I think at this point you've written several

books worth of material on the Men of War series.

And I was wondering, I wanted to get your impressions of Assault Squad.

Okay, so Assault Squad is interesting in that it doesn't have a classic single-player campaign.

I mean, all the other previous games have been based largely around the success of the single-player game. This can be played single-player, but it's very much focused on the skirmish modes,

which I think is a really interesting way of sort of focusing and polishing on

and amplifying one specific thing that men of war did

really well which was had just a few multiplayer modes and specifically a couple of maps that

could be played co-op and these were these were maps from the actual campaign that were suitable

for more than one player. And what Digital Mindsoft

have done is just take that and distill it and turn it into, I guess what could be

understood as a co-op campaign, but essentially a co-op skirmish campaign, which I think is

15 maps long,

something like that, which is probably longer than it would take you to play through the original

campaign.

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