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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 258: A Land War in Asia

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Troy, and regular panelist Fraser Brown try to figure out just what Wargame Red Dragon is. Is it a wargame? RTS? A real-time wargame? A platforming roguelike? Tune in and find out where Red Dragon ranks in the Wargame series.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.6

Joining me today is Three MoZ founder, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show.

0:08.1

I am very happy to be here to finally talk again about a game I could not talk about for a long time.

0:14.7

And we also welcome our buddy, my colleague from PC Games-N, and freelance writer Fraser Brown.

0:20.1

How do you?

0:22.8

So tonight we're going to be revisiting the war game series again as they just released another installment of Wargame Wargame Red

0:29.0

Dragon, a new sequel of sorts that expands the action to East Asia and the Pacific Theater

0:36.3

and gives us a bunch of new conflicts and armies

0:39.2

to play around with and most significantly of course naval warfare uh so before we get into all

0:45.6

that though Fraser Troy and I have both talked about uh war game the war game series in the past

0:51.3

people know that we like it uh. What's your relationship with this

0:55.1

series and where do you stand on, where do you stand on Red Dragon? Well, I didn't play much

1:01.3

European escalation, but I really got into, I've forgotten the name of the bloody sequel. Airland

1:09.0

Battle. It's a terrible name. Who can remember it? It is so weird. They are all terrible names. Rid Dragons is the best name. But Airland Battle is just so strange and it's so annoying to format when you're writing a review. It's like Air, then Big El, but one word, battle. It's frustrating. But yeah, I really liked it. I liked it and I liked the way they dealt with the air combat especially

1:31.5

the way it was kind of separated and you didn't have like airports just on the front lines

1:37.3

inexplicably clearly going to be destroyed very quickly but most of all I really got into

1:43.7

the multiplayer the huge 10v10 battles,

1:47.0

which were just absurd over huge battlefields, so much cooperation needed, very intimidating.

1:54.0

And I like how I kind of suck at it. I'm absolutely terrible.

2:00.0

And it seems I've only been getting worse with Red Dragon

2:04.5

which seems to be more of, it feels like an expansion,

2:09.0

not even a standalone expansion,

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