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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 148: Unity of Command

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2011

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rob and Troy talk about 2x2's new entry-level wargame, Unity of Command, and why it is such a huge success. How does it stack up against Panzer Corps, and why is it more a wargame than a puzzle game? Why is its treatment of supply so important? Can you make a really challenging wargame without implying puzzle-like solutions?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.7

Joining me tonight is 3MA's Exhausted Panelist and founder, Troy Goodfellow.

0:09.8

Troy, welcome to your second show of the week.

0:12.9

This is a crazy week of recording as we try to get a whole lot of shows done and out of the way.

0:19.1

Yeah, so tonight we're going to be talking about Unity of Command,

0:22.6

but you already got the gang back together last night for episode 150, isn't that right?

0:28.5

We did. We got the gang back together, the old original gang for 150,

0:32.3

so for listeners who listen to us regularly,

0:34.3

and on 150 we have the original cast together for the first week

0:38.4

of January, the New Year's show gave Rob some time off to think about 2011 and 2012, since I'm

0:47.0

sure as a writer you're being forced to contribute to all these year-end lists that drives you up

0:51.8

the wall. I know I hated doing them. Yeah, I've already

0:54.2

I've already sort of punked out on a couple just because these things come in and I just sort

0:58.3

stare blankly at them and honestly I'm at this this point where people ask me like what do I think

1:04.4

of the games that came out this year and I'm just I'm not sure. You know like the the year-end sprint

1:10.2

through reviews has sort of addled my brain. And all I can think of is games, but I can't really reflect on the whole year. Yeah, that's kind of where I usually am. I mean, we were at least, you know, for the 150 show. We talked, it was focus on one genre. But, you know, stuff just keeps coming up. And it's so hard to think about, you know, what happened in January and June, and it all blends into one big mix. But

1:32.0

tonight, we have one game we're talking about. So that makes it pretty easy. Yeah, that's right. So

1:37.7

we're going to be talking about Unity of Command, a new Eastern Front war game from two by two

1:42.7

games. Is there any connection between these guys and 2x3 games, or is that just...

1:47.6

I have really no idea.

1:49.3

It's weird, right?

1:50.7

Yeah, obviously two students have similar names.

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