Hello, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. With me today,

me and Troy Against the World is our founder and today's subject in many ways. Troy Goodfellow.

This is my third week in a row. I'm going to be a regular.

You can't keep a good man down. No, people try. Especially when he keeps writing interesting and topical

pieces about strategy games. So our topic today is going to be your national character series,

which you just finished up, and it was really well received. It was a great series of blog entries.

And since you wrote the piece, I don't just want to quiz you on what you wrote, so I was

kind of thinking I'd let you sort of steer the discussion today.

So what were you trying to get across with the National Character series?

I guess I could tell a bit with the origins of it, because I haven't really got into that.

I mean, a lot of it was I was writing, I mean, at the time, I started it in November last year, which is a very crazy time for me. One thing I was writing, I mean, at the time, I started in November last year, which was a very crazy time for me.

One thing I was doing was writing for a PC gamer, and I had just finished the month before,

I've been working in the month before, a opening moves guide for Civilization 5 for PC Gamer.

Something they were going to run,

how to get started with certain sieves in certain conditions.

So, you know, domination for the Greeks and culture for the Indians.

Those are two sieves that work, really,

those are two victory conditions that work very well for those SIVs.

And that just got me thinking about, you know, how, especially with the Indians, what are they trying

to tell me about India here?

That India is small but crowded and full of culture.

Because India in SIV-5 isn't a culture you can, isn't that nation you can expand really

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