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

With me today are two first-time guests and fellow veterans of the Paradox Masterclass.

First, we welcome Awesome Out of Tens managing editor, Fraser Brown.

Fraser, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

And we also welcome PC gamers contributing editor, T.J. Hafer.

TJ, welcome this show.

How's it going?

Not as well as before I started a war with Troy's Russia, to be quite honest.

Yeah.

Which I guess obliquely brings us to today's topic, a game that we've been playing for about the last week and played a bit of at ParadoxCon as well,

March of the Eagles. March of the Eagles is a, you know, it's, I think right here, this is, I think, where the discussion kind of starts, because I find it a little hard to classify.

It is a war game in many ways, but it's a war game built into a grand strategy engine

and with a lot of grand strategy trappings. But it's still, unlike every other Paradox game,

this is very focused on one war, a very small window of time, and you don't have a lot of choices

except for who you're going to beat the

living hell out of. Right. Yeah, there's set victory conditions for every nation and you either

are going to achieve it or you're not. There's no really setting your own goals and things like

that, like in Europa or Crusader Kings.

I'd call it a war game.

I'd say that's a fairly accurate description.

Potentially a cooperative war game.

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