Good evening,

Good evening, everyone.

This is three moves ahead, and I am your host for the evening, once again, returning

to Troy Goodfellow, founder, co-founder of the show.

This is episode 220 as things I know.

Isn't that amazing?

And this is my first time in the show in like well over a month, maybe even longer. It feels like a very, very long time. So I'm glad to be back and bringing with me another founding panelist, my very dear friend, Dr. Bruce Garrick. Hello, Troy.

Glad you could be here. It's just the two of us, which is kind of nice.

I've had a lot more of these two-person shows.

A chance for us to focus on dig in deep on a specific topic.

And for some reason, I'm not quite sure how we ended up with this, but this is... I can tell you how we started off with this, but... Here we're going to be talking about railroad games.

Railroad games are a durable and returning theme, recurring theme, in the strategy game

landscape.

I've been around really since the very beginning of board games, the mass board game

audience, and, of course, computer game industry.

And I think it'd be a nice counterpoint to a show that Rob had about a month ago.

On another, we'll talk more, but another genre which has recurring themes throughout

that he had problems with in the Space 4X world, we're going to talk about some of the

variety and limitations of building games about

railroads.

So, Bruce, we ended up here either through a misunderstanding or miscommunication or something.

Well, I don't know about that.

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