Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Joining me today is our elite irregular panelist and my wingman for the winter of war

gaming, Dr. Bruce Garrick. Bruce, welcome to the show.

Hello, gamers.

You know, I just realized I said good evening, and it is actually morning when we're recording

at this moment. We've just finished a couple sessions of conflict of heroes, our game this week, which we will be discussing, along with some various Eastern Front matters. We are recording a very early show. So if I'm not at the top of my game, it's probably because the coffee has not had enough time to take effect. And I think that more than explains what just happened in the scenario Bruce and I just played,

in which I managed to single-handedly destroy the German Blitzkrieg as the Germans.

Yeah, so that would, the coffee, I don't think, would count as an excuse on the Eastern Front.

Very well.

So, Bruce, you've been pushing hard for us to talk about conflict of heroes for... coffee, I don't think, would count as an excuse on the Eastern Front. Very well.

So, Bruce, you've been pushing hard for us to talk about conflict of heroes for, well,

basically since it came out.

So maybe you could explain a little bit why this game resonates with you and why you've been urging us to give it the through his head treatment.

Well, so conflict of heroes is a game that I think really has a lot to talk about because

it's a strategy game that when it was translated to the computer, I think it sort of

exemplified some really good design decisions and some really bad design decisions or maybe

implementation decisions. Conflict of Heroes for the people who don't know about it, but who are

probably Googling it right now if they're able to, well, listening, is a board game that

by Academy Games came out quite a while ago. I mean, it's by Academy Games,

came out quite a while ago.

I mean, it's not a new game,

but the computer version actually is not really new either.

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