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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 26: Episode 26

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Troy, Tom and Bruce spend an hour talking about city builders as ant farm games. Why didn’t they talk about Dawn of Discovery two weeks ago? What’s up with Cities XL? Is SimCity Societies a neglected classic or a misfire of epic proportions? And, most importantly, does Bruce know any games made after 1984?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.6

I am your much more sober this week host, Troy Goodfellow, with me today as freelance writer Tom Chick.

0:15.0

Hello. Does anyone need a coffee before we start? I'll get you. Troy, Bruce, do you want a coffee?

0:21.4

And Dr. Bruce Garrick.

0:23.7

So I'm so disappointed that I couldn't make the podcast last week because you guys just,

0:27.9

I can't believe all the things you didn't talk about and all the things that I could have

0:32.7

said.

0:33.3

But that's okay because we have a podcast this week, so I'm just going to pretend like we're

0:36.9

talking about all that stuff.

0:39.0

I have a question for you guys.

0:41.1

How come when you talked about World War II, you didn't talk about War on the Pacific?

0:48.4

We did.

0:49.3

Didn't that come up briefly?

0:50.4

Yep, it came a couple of times.

0:52.1

Oh, all right, forget it then.

0:54.6

Whenever Julian mentioned something, you just tune out his voice, is that what? Was it Julian? Yeah. I don't know. I thought I listened to it and didn't hear you guys talk about it. Okay, well, then forget it. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You talk about whatever we're talking about. No, you know what? I think Bruce is right, Troy. We mentioned war plan Pacific. But I don't know.

1:12.1

We talked about Gary Grigsby at some point.

1:14.3

We didn't have war in the... No, you know what? I think Bruce is right, Troy. We mentioned war plan Pacific.

1:29.1

But I don't know. We talked about Gary Grigsby at some point. We may not have specifically mentioned war in the Pacific. So Bruce might have a point. War Planned Pacific, that's right. No, we did not talk war in the Pacific. You're right. But we did talk about the war in the Pacific. Yes. So, yeah.

1:31.8

Well, when making history two comes out in the fall, maybe we'll have another chance.

1:35.1

That's, that historian guy's game.

1:37.2

It's made by historians, so it has to be really great.

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