Three Moves Ahead 197: All By Myself

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Troy and Bruce welcome original panelist Tom Chick back to the show to talk about solitaire boardgames, starting with the new Phantom Leader for iPad and then roaming through 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Levee En Masse, some Lovecraftian thing and Ambush. What makes a solitaire board game distinct from a computer game played against an AI? When do theme and production values matter? Plus the return of the Geryk outro tunes.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast, once in a future,
0:04.6	official podcast of Flashsteel.com, coming to you on the Idol Thumbs Network. I am your
0:10.4	host for tonight, Troy Goodfellow, and this is episode number 196. We have been doing this stupid
0:17.6	thing forever. With me tonight, our very good friends and one is our regular
0:23.3	panelist, Dr. Bruce Derek. Oh, hello gamers. And then original panelists are a good friend
0:30.8	from quarter to three and the other half of Tom versus Bruce, Mr. Tomchick. Before we start,
0:36.3	Troy, I just want to know if I can get anyone a cup of eggnog, let me know, and I'll go do that. Do you have cinnamon? No, we have paprika. Does that go with eggnog? Oregano? One of those things. I don't think it's oregano. How about chive? Do you like chive with your eggnog?
0:54.7	I do not like chive with my eggnog. Anyway, we invited Tom here because we're talking about
1:00.9	playing games alone, something that he will be doing for the rest of his life.
1:05.0	We have, sorry, that was mean, we're talking about solitaire board games. This is inspired in part, and large part, in fact,
1:13.0	by the release of the iPad app for one of the supposedly great, supposedly great, if I'm only a little bit of
1:20.0	time with it, Solitaire Board War Games from Dan Versen Games, Phantom Leader. It is a $16
1:27.1	app, and Bruce wrote a very interesting and
1:30.4	strong review of it for a quarter to three, and it led me to thinking about, well, the design of
1:35.3	first Solitaire board games. If you buy a board game, you will often see along the side with
1:41.2	the difficulty meter, also how suitable a game is for Solitaire play.
1:45.8	So you can talk a bit about that. And also, a phantom leader itself and what makes it work
1:50.0	both in the board version and in the app version. So I guess we'll start with Bruce, since
1:56.4	you've put a lot of time into the app and in the board game itself. What's the strong point you think of
2:03.5	Phantom Leader as a, first a single, first is an application because you play a lot of war games
2:08.4	solo. Playing a war game solo is not a big deal. If there's an AI, this isn't a game with an
2:13.8	AI. It's a board game that you play by yourself. There's kind of a
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