Hello, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the once-in-future official podcast of flash of steel.com,

and still the number one strategy game-focused podcast on the internet.

I am your host and founder and favorite person, Troy Goodfellow, here on episode 251,

to welcome you to what was supposed to be another episode in our winter of wargaming.

But Rob Zakney is handling that schedule and the organization and planning for that,

and he's just not feeling that well.

So we missed last week, and this week I know we couldn't go another week without a podcast,

even if it's going to be late.

So we decided to bring in three

very intelligent journalists to talk about the new hotness in city builders. The recently

released banished from Shunning Rock Software. It's a game that I've put quite a few hours in,

and one that I mentioned in an early show this year as a city builder I was high, greatly looking forward to, and now we've all had a chance to play it.

So with us, we have one new voice and two veteran voices to the podcast.

I'd like to welcome freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

The editor-in-chief of The Escapist, our old and dear friend Greg Tito.

Hello, how's everybody doing?

And freelance writer who reviewed the game for a U.S. Gamer, a new voice to our podcast,

and I hope someone who will be back more often, the content editor for U.S. gamer Cassandra Ka.

Hello.

So we want to talk with Banished.

It is a very brown city builder.

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