Three Moves Ahead 146: On the Air

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2011

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

It’s more a fancy lecture and masterwork design class than a bunch of guys guessing about what works when board game desiger Lee Brimmicombe-Wood sits down with Troy and Bruce to talk about his history of making games about air power, the challenges in getting all the cool technical bits down and the difficulties in making the bombing of civilians a game factor you cannot ignore. Can you make a strategic game about an air war still be about flying? What limits do you put on the player to make Luftwaffe raids roughly historical?

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the once and future official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, for the first time in quite a while.
0:08.7	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and this is episode 146.
0:14.2	With me, today is one of my regular panelists, my war game mentor, and dear friend, Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:21.9	Hello, gamers!
0:23.7	That's more enthusiastic than usual.
0:25.6	Yeah, good. Excellent.
0:27.4	Why are you so enthusiastic?
0:29.0	Oh, because we had a very special show today because I had kind of a brainstorm.
0:35.1	I thought Troy had a while back suggested a show on air power in computer games or games about air power, strategy games about air power.
0:46.8	And I said that there weren't any.
0:49.4	So we canceled that.
0:51.5	But then I thought, well, why don't we have a show about air power and strategy games and actually include somebody who knows about that kind of stuff?
1:01.0	So we got our guest. Troy, who is our guest?
1:04.5	Our guest is the great board game designer Lee Brimicam Wood.
1:10.5	Lee, welcome to the show.
1:12.5	Why don't we start by you telling our audience what you've made
1:16.8	and see if they've actually heard of any of these
1:18.6	because you have worked on some pretty great titles.
1:22.8	Well, thank you very much.
1:25.2	Oh, it's great to be here.
1:26.2	I wish I could maintain the same enthusiasm level as you guys.
1:31.3	Sorry, that came out all wrong, didn't it?
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