Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host Rob Zackney. It is over 90 degrees in Cambridge today. I'm on my second or third tall boy genitonic, so God knows how this is going to go, and we're talking about the Civilization Five Brave New World. Joining me, as always, my friend and co-host, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. I'm glad to be back. I'm not here as often as it should be, but it's always nice to have a chance to talk about SIV.

Yeah, we would love to have you back more often, but you're just such a goddamn show these days. I don't know what to do about it. I know. It's problematic, though, we do so many strategy games that evolve now. It does make my life on the podcast quite difficult,

but we have theme shows and the like.

We will be able to work out.

And all of my fans will hear me again.

And regular pay is pretty sweet,

so I think it's probably a fair trade-off overall.

We also welcome back a couple recurring guests.

First, we have freelance writer Rowan Kaiser. Rowan, welcome back.

Good to be back.

I think this is the first time I've actually been on one with Troy, though.

It is.

Wait, really?

Yeah.

Yeah, this is my fourth, I think.

At the first time we've been here together.

Oh, man, that's going to explode so many fan theories about the

nature of reality on three moves ahead. And finally, we welcome back our friend Fraser Brown. Fraser,

welcome to the show. Hi, guys. Happy to be here, especially happy to talk about Civ 5. Yeah, Fraser, you reviewed it

for PC Games End, where I also do a lot of writing these days.

And I was glad to see that your review was kind of on what I consider to be the side of God when it comes to Brave New World.

I'm really impressed with that expansion.

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