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

With me tonight is the entire regular panel for the first time, and who knows how long.

I'm joined by freelance writer Julian Murdoch. Julian, how are you?

I'm just Ducky. How's everyone else?

And you're bringing the positivity. I like to hear that. I don't know where you found it.

It's deep somewhere in my soul.

We're also joined by 80s

hair metal guitarist, Troy Goodfellow.

Yeah, that's me.

And we also have

my personal favorite of the three of you,

Bruce Garrick.

Hello, is he the favorite? What did he do? Is he giving you blow jobs now on the three of you, Bruce Garrick. Hello, Pete.

What did he do? Is he giving you blowjobs now on the side?

Well, actually, I just, I just talked to him less than you assholes, so, you know.

So our topic tonight is something that came up during the, during the listener question show a couple weeks ago. One listener wrote in to ask, why are there so few strategy games to deal with, you know, peace, nonviolent

conflict? And what are some examples of good strategy games that do deal with unarmed conflict?

Now, as Troy pointed out, the, why are there so few part of the question?

It seems a little obvious, but when you start looking at what are really good strategy games

that deal with things that aren't about shooting people, it gets a little trick here.

So let's start with the first part of the question. Why are so many strategy games

purely about armed conflict? Because it's the most interesting and least familiar conflict

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