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

With me tonight, I'm joined by Three Moves-Z founder, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. Hey, how you doing? And we also welcome, I think for the first time, actually, my good friend, freelance writer, J.P. Grant. Yeah, it's about goddamn time, Rob. Thanks. Yeah, well, you don't play a lot of strategy.

You're what I think, what I like to call

and what our audience considers a poser.

Um, time, Rob. Thanks. Yeah, well, you don't play a lot of strategy. You're what I think, what I like to call and what our audience considers a poser.

You're just, you're lucky that you happen to have connected with your lovely wife through one of the greatest RTS games of all time.

This is true.

This is very true.

And so we've been talking about this game for a couple months.

And Troy, I know you're always ready to talk about this game.

Tonight we're going to be talking about my favorite entry from the Age of Empire series,

which is actually kind of an offshoot of the Age of Empire series,

Age of Mythology, which is a real-time strategy game that takes a lot from Age of Empires,

but transports it to basically a world where Norse, Egyptian, and Greek myth are alive,

well, and doing battle.

So, JP, since this is your first time on the show, since you're a guest, I kind of wanted to start with you because you don't actually, you know, at least until recently, you've never played a great many strategy games. But this seems like one that really sort of clicked with you. Oh, absolutely. And as you mentioned, there's a lot of sentimental value to this game, but we can tell that story some other time. Yeah, you know,

this is one of the first RTSs, I think, that I really got into. I had played Starcraft, of course,

but this one really clicked for me. And I don't know if it was just the theme, if it was the

presentation, or the way that it was balanced between the three main factions, but it just really, really fired

on all cylinders for me. And I find myself going back to it and replaying the campaign,

replaying skirmishes, you know, several times a year. And Troy, you're kind of on record as this

is one of your all-time favorite RTSs. And is this your favorite

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