Three Moves Ahead 22: Episode 22

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2009

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

After a month of absences, Bruce Geryk more than makes up for it in a tour de force conversation with special guest Bill Abner as they relive the fun of 1970s baseball simulation games. We open with a discussion of Blood Bowl, which Julian finds too difficult and Troy finds too easy. Then Tom, Julian and Troy sort of fade into the background for an hour.Listen to learn what kind of person replays historical seasons, why Blood Bowl is really a wargame, and whether sports simulations can ever measure up to the beauty of Championship Manager.Also an update on our Dominions 3 game, a promise to eventually get Bruce's side of the story, a quiz game from Tom Chick and a hip hop conclusion.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, and still the only decent strategy gaming podcast on the internet.
0:10.6	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is a full panel for once.
0:16.6	We have freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:19.8	I'm afraid I can't get anyone coffee today.
0:22.1	Sylvia has been acting up, so apologies.
0:25.7	Freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:27.8	I have nothing to say to that.
0:31.0	Every time you refer to your coffee maker as a she, it drives me crazy.
0:34.6	That's the name they gave her.
0:35.7	I didn't do it.
0:36.3	That's how she came.
0:37.1	And back from his hiatus, Bruce Garrick. Welcome back. Thank you. I've been reviewing the last few weeks of podcasts. I have a list of things that Tom said that are inaccurate. I've been doing my best, Bruce. I've been doing my best.
0:54.7	I know. His whole tirated lack of German board games on the internet.
0:57.9	That was the way of it's really a shame that Tom has to be so factually inaccurate all the time.
1:04.4	But anyway, thanks.
1:07.3	Today we have a special guest.
1:09.4	Again, it is the summer of guests at Flash of Steel. We have the editor-in-chief of GAMShark.com and the go-to guy for sports gaming on the internet. My sometime boss, Mr. Bill Abner.
1:22.1	Hi, guys. Happy to be here. Do you realize you're the first journalist guest we've ever had?
1:27.2	Really?
1:28.7	Actually, wait, is Bill?
1:31.0	I thought Bill worked for the guys who made Blood Bowl.
1:33.7	Aren't you their PR dude?
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