Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. With me tonight is one of my regular panel, Bruce Garrick. Bruce, welcome to the show. Hello. And we are also joined once again by our friend Rowan Kaiser. Rowan, welcome back to the show. Thanks. So, freelance writer Rowan Kaiser joins us once again because he's been playing a little game called Gary Grigsby's War in the East.

Now, we've already done a show on Gary Grigsby's War in the East, but it's a good time to revisit it,

in part because I think Rowan had some really interesting experiences playing it as sort of a newcomer

to the hardest of the hardcore wargaming.

And also because Warren the East recently got,

relatively recently, got an expansion, Don to the Danube, which covers the, it's later war

scenarios covering the Stalingrad campaign all the way until, you know, near the end.

And so Bruce and I have been playing a little bit of that.

But Rowan, actually, I wanted to start with you because I was kind of surprised when you just sort of went out on a mission to, you know, not only play a war game, but you basically

picked the meanest and most inaccessible-looking war game round and took it on. I'm curious

what motivated that. Well, I think it's that it was the meanest and at least apparently accessible,

although I found it actually fairly easy to play once I stopped reading the tutorial. It was that

as I was growing up and paying attention to war games and kind of trying some

and looking at some others, like Gary Grigsby's War in the East was the one that

was consistently cited in computer gaming world and whatever as the densest but most

rewarding war game around. And seeing that there was a new gary grigsby or war in russia

was the old one this one's war on the east um but same scope uh seeing that there was a new one that

that was out was uh it piqued my curiosity.

And then I asked you and Troy about it, and you guys said that it was also really good.

So I decided to just go forward and see what would happen.

Oh, I was also intrigued by the price point because it costs $80 instead of $60.

And that's something that's very rare these days.

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