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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 200: Tapping Past Bastogne

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

2013 opens with a look at Shenandoah Studios' Battle of the Bulge for iPad. Everyone agrees that it is shiny and beautiful, but does it work as it should? Is it even a Bulge game at all? Listen as Troy, Bruce and Julian work out what makes Battle of the Bulge a near perfect match of design and platform.

Gameographies of major players at Shenandoah John H Butterfield Joe Miranda Eric Lee Smith

Bruce's review

Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we going to get, like, uh, intro music like, uh, other podcasts have? Do we really need intro? What kind of interesting do you want, Bruce? You can compose it. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, we need some to compose us. We need some to compose us. We could have, like, uh, like, uh, kind of like, uh, old style I can use where we have this little blurb of that like terrible like orchestral music

0:21.2

for like two seconds and then

0:22.4

Yeah, see people would want something

0:24.2

Marshall and Bombastic and that's really not me

0:26.7

I'm not a Marshall Bombastic guy

0:28.4

All right

0:28.9

I'd want something that's like a Calliope maybe

0:31.7

That's a very that's a very Troy Good fellow

0:34.6

instrument the Calliope

0:36.0

That's pronounced Calliope

0:37.3

That's pronounced Calliope.

0:50.3

Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves ahead. The Once in Future official podcast of Flash of Steel.com coming to you on the Idol Thumbs Network. This is the first show of

0:55.9

2013, and we've been off the air for a couple of weeks because the holidays make things

1:01.7

kind of crazy. With me today are two of our regular panelists and two of my favorite people

1:06.5

we have from Gamer's with Jobs, Mr. Julian Murdoch. I'm one of your favorite people.

1:12.0

You need a better class of friend.

1:13.7

That's what that says to me.

1:15.6

I'm not saying you're wrong.

1:17.7

And also, Dr. Bruce Garrick.

1:21.1

I figure we should start 2013 by looking at the last great game of 2012,

1:29.0

and that I've written about in the blog,

1:32.2

and that Bruce has reviewed for Tom Chick's site, quarter to three.

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