Three Moves Ahead 19: Episode 19

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2009

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Troy, Tom and Julian look at the year so far and look ahead to see what games they liked and what they are anticipating. Detours into diving, naval warfare and whether Starcraft 2 will appeal to the masses.Stay tuned to the end for a look at who chose which race for their Dominions 3 multiplayer match and why. (Troy butchers his race name over and over, too. It's very stupid.)Fourmageddon Map for Dominions 3 Tom comments on Starcraft's single player plans Bill Abner's "Blood Bowl" Blog Troy's Half Year Round Up

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.5	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two of my three usual panelists, freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:13.8	Whoa, whoa, whoa, I didn't know I was going to go first.
0:15.5	I was actually sipping coffee, and if anyone needs one of these let me know I will get you a coffee
0:21.4	okay now you go to Julian that was so smooth I know I really you went first last
0:27.2	I was totally caught off guard Troy you're unpredictable damn it you're a loose cannon
0:32.0	that's part of my term and freelance writer Julian Murdoch hello Hello. I'm out on the West Coast this time,
0:40.0	so I'm not drinking a martini. I'm actually just drinking like water and coffee too. So this will
0:44.9	be remarkably sober. At the risk of doing a hey, what did you do all weekend podcast? I'm
0:52.1	curious, Julian, what are you doing on the west coast oh my wife's
0:55.6	family is here and uh we actually spent most of the last four days abalone diving on the
1:01.6	mendicino coast whoa can we do a podcast about that you should totally abalone diving the bomb
1:07.9	is there a strategy involved in diving for abalone because that might might be... There's actually a tremendous amount of strategy. You have to, like, get your maps right and get the terrain, get your equipment load out, correct for the environment. Now, this is just skin diving. Are you scuba diving? No, you can't scuba dive for abalone. That would be called poaching. That would be cheating. That's like using a cheat code, isn't it? It's exactly. Well, it would be sort of like using like a speed hack or something like that. Okay, Troy, quick. You guys are terrible. Yeah, I know. See, Tom, everything with you is a strategy game
1:44.2	I know it's life yeah exactly I can do
1:47.4	yeah there
1:48.1	in fact I got a comment on today's blog saying that
1:52.2	I only call Sims a strategy game
1:55.9	because it leads to hits or something
1:58.0	because you're all about the hits
2:00.5	because yeah I am all about the hits. Because, yeah, I am all about the hits.
2:04.0	And that is true.
2:04.8	I mean, people, you know, the Sims
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