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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 24: Episode 24

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

East India Company and other trading themed games take center stage this week. Listen as a full panel talks about where Nitro’s sailing business sim stands and falls. Is it possible to make cargo interesting? Are trading games pointless with a computer opponent?Tom’s final Fidgit diary on East India Company

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

0:08.4

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is a full panel of panelists.

0:14.5

Freelance writer Tom Chick.

0:16.7

If anyone needs a coffee, let me know.

0:20.6

Freelance writer Julian Murdoch.

0:42.3

Yeah, can you stick that in a FedEx envelope and just ship that over to me? I'm sure it won't be cold at all by the time it gets 3,000 miles away. It's on the way, Julian. I'll put it in a furnace. Thank you. Thank you. Ooh, a furnace. And the haggard Bruce Garrick. I just wanted to let our audience know that today's episode actually has a sponsor it's Trader Joe's your neighborhood grocery store

0:45.5

and you may be interested in the fact that Trader Joe's is coming soon to

0:52.5

Olympia Washington on August 21st also Princeton, New Jersey, West Los Angeles, California, Newbury Park, California on August 7th, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

1:05.5

Trader Joe's, for all things good at grocers.

1:08.8

So, Bruce, how did you get a sponsor?

1:10.9

And where's my God?

1:11.5

That's Bruce's personal sponsor.

1:14.7

Well, I think that it sort of behooves us to, you know, get some, you know, commercial

1:22.6

tie-ins to our, to our topics.

1:24.6

And since today's topic is going to be trading games, I thought that, you know,

1:30.1

we would sort of try to expand our little strategy gaming empire to encompass the world commercial media.

1:39.3

By the way, Trader Joe was really happy to do that, too.

1:42.6

Yeah, we're not really sponsored by Trader Joe, so in case any lawyers come after Troy, it was all his idea.

1:52.7

Anyway.

1:53.2

Why can't we say, why can't we just say we're sponsored by whomever we want?

1:57.9

Can we not do that?

1:58.8

Is that illegal?

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