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

With me tonight, once again, is my regular panelist, Julian Murdoch.

Hello, I guess I am sort of regular.

And also with us tonight, representing the novice wargamer point of view, is our old friend, Corey Demirage Banks.

I'm the irregular member of the party tonight.

The reason we have Corey to talk about his novice experience wargaming

is because we have something of a novice Grognard war game on our hands this evening.

We're discussing Matrix's Panzer Corps, which is a shot-for-shot remake of Panzer General 2.

I personally am in the midst of a rather severe 180 on this game.

Really?

So, yeah.

So let's start with you, Julian.

What are your first impressions of it?

Before you jump in, I should clarify that it's the Lord's Game Studio that developed it.

Okay.

Because I think it was a very small outfit to put this together. I think it was a guy, wasn't it? Yeah. That's what, that's, that's my recollection of it. So, so my, my sense of this game is that it is, uh, it's frankly, it's filled a gap that I don't think has been filled since

Panzer General, right? It's, it's, it is this perfect, tightly honed, gateway war game, right? I mean,

if Bruce Garrick was here, he would cringe for us to even think about calling it a war game,

because it's not. It's, it's effectively, you calling it a war game because it's not it's it's effectively um it's effectively a

you know a strategy game that you could be playing with cardboard chits on a map um and the you know

everything is very dumb down in the sense that you know every unit is represented by essentially

the same combination of about a dozen statistics, right?

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