Hello and welcome to three moves ahead, the official podcast, A Flash of Steel.

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

And with me once again is my panel of illustrious colleagues.

We have freelance writer Julian Murdoch.

I still can't figure out how I'm second seat, but that's great.

Maybe people can hear me this week, so this will be the first real show because I'm really on it.

That's true.

The hopefully not silent, Julian Murdoch, freelance writer Tom Chick.

Hello, everyone.

And my wargaming colleague and board game tutor, Dr. Bruce Garrick.

Did you start this out by saying hello and welcome? You can't say that. That's what you have Green says. That is true. I missed Jeff Green on podcasts. I do too. Can we get him? He's busy working on Sims Animals games. He's got better things to do. He's not that hard to get. We had him on twice, but I'm not sure he's allowed to podcast anymore, because last time he was just like totally dissing Mirror's Edge or something and got in trouble. We don't want to get Jeff in trouble. No, that would be bad. Let's get somebody else in trouble. Can we get in trouble? I'm sure you can find... People who made Halo Wars.

Is that what we're going to talk about?

They're already in trouble.

Actually, those guys are probably blissfully free to say whatever they want at this point, aren't they?

That's true.

They can have jobs.

Yeah.

Well, they're still working at D.L.C., right?

They're an independent studio, and yeah, that is true.

Actually, Troy is a good point.

They still have a relationship with Microsoft to keep doing add-ons and whatnot for Halo Wars.

So that's a good point.

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