Three Moves Ahead 13: Episode 13

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

War Games, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, Strategy, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2009

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Four men enter, two men leave as Tom and Bruce welcome their podcast partners into the oldest continuous rivalry in strategy gaming. In the first official multiplayer recap session in TMA history, the panel talks about Dawn of War 2, how the multiplayer experience holds up under the pressures of age and infirmity.Bonus files include a replay you can load into Dawn of War 2 to see us flail about and an audio of us setting up the game and playing.

Transcript

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0:00.0	In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
0:04.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.
0:08.4	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and this is a very special episode of Three Moves Ahead.
0:14.8	With Me as the usual.
0:16.6	Yeah, very special, because there's a moral to the story.
0:19.5	Does someone get cancer?
0:21.5	I think I did.
0:24.5	With me is freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:27.2	Hello, everyone.
0:28.3	Can I get anyone a coffee?
0:30.0	Let me know if you'd like one and I'll go to the kitchen for you.
0:32.8	Freelands writer Julian Murdoch.
0:34.6	I think I'm going for a serving of humble pie.
0:38.5	And Bruce Garrick.
0:40.9	Oh, there's going to be so much to talk about in this podcast.
0:45.5	We have just completed a four-player game of Dawn of War II.
0:50.0	Yes, this is the live, well, not quite live, but the almost live radio version of Tom versus Bruce.
0:58.4	2V2 game of Dawn of War II with Bruce and I taking on the dream team of Tom and Julian.
1:08.4	I think calling it a two-player game, a four-playerplayer game, a 2-V-2 is a bit aggressive.
1:14.0	Because really it was sort of like 2V-1, where Tom and I added up to a whole player.
1:19.0	Ah.
1:21.0	So, how'd the game go, guys?
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