Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host Rob Zakeney. With me tonight, we have Troy Goodfellow.

Troy, as always, thanks for coming back.

Always happy to be back home. And return to the show, we have Broken Toys blogger, Scott Lum the Mad Jennings. Scott, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Yay, Lum. Yay. So the reason Scott's here is because I get the distinct impression from the War in the East show

that Scott may be smarter than the average bear when it comes to early Red Army history and the early Soviet period.

And that's fitting because tonight we're going to be talking about Revolution Under Siege,

a new war game about the, a relatively new war game

about the Russian Civil War and the wars resulting from the breakup of the Russian Empire

from developer Sep Reds.

I kind of want to start with you guys, because this struck me as it's an unusual topic for a war game,

and right off the bat, I wanted to get your impressions of this latest game.

I'm going to start with just what you just said, that it's an unusual subject for a war game,

because it is such a scattered war, such an unusual war.

You have a new government fighting for legitimacy and survival,

which is only a dubious control over the mechanism of production.

You have potential of Western intervention.

You have a war against the Poles in the West.

You have Tsarist armies popping up here and there and trying to do what they can.

It's really not a neat and tidy war for a war game because you have all this

great political stuff going on as well as the military action. So when I got the email last fall

saying, hey, we've just done this game in the Russian Revolution, I was like, really? And I control

armies in it. And I don't have to be Lenin or Trotsky. I'm like Lenin and Trotsky controlling armies. How does this exactly work? So it was actually quite a novel idea. And I'm one of the people who loves having new settings for war games. So even just seeing that was a bit kind of tickled me a little bit. Yeah, I mean, as Rob mentioned, I mean, everyone needs a hobby, and mine is early Russian history. Okay, it's a strange hobby, but still. And when they announced Revolution Under Siege, I mean, it was, oh, they decided to make a game just for me. I may be the only one who plays this, but I'm okay with it. They'll make it for me. Whatever.

I was very excited about, you know, the fact that they were just willing to actually cover this

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