Three Moves Ahead 268: Pickett's Charge

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Rob, Julian, and Troy "Stonewall" Goodfellow get together to talk about Ultimate General: Gettysburg. Is this the bargain we've been waiting for? The next great Gettysburg game? The game that finally introduces the importance of Lollazapoola Hill?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:04.5	Joining me today are almost all the main panel. We couldn't quite get Bruce, but we do have Troy Goodfellow.
0:11.5	Troy, welcome to the show. It's great to be back again.
0:15.2	And we also welcome back Julian Murdoch. Julian, it's been forever.
0:19.4	It has been, but I've finally played something relevant.
0:22.7	Yay!
0:23.5	Yay!
0:24.4	You played a lot of hearthstone, and that was relevant. We had a good chew on that. That was fun. Julian and I have not been together on a podcast, though. For a very long time. That is true. Yeah, I mean, someday, we get all four of us in the same place, like twice a month or something.
0:39.1	Yeah, that'll never happen.
0:40.9	Crazy time. Yeah, I mean, someday, we've got all four of us in the same place, like twice a month or something.
0:39.1	Yeah, that'll never happen.
0:40.9	Crazy talk.
0:41.5	Okay, well, I am a dreamer, okay?
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:45.0	However, we did come together this week to talk about a game that has a few things going for.
0:50.1	One is it's accessible and fast enough that we could all just sort of dive right into it without having to sort of dedicate ourselves to studying it.
0:57.0	And also, I think it's a pretty damn good war game.
0:59.8	Today we're talking about Ultimate General Gettysburg, which is on Steam Early Access for $10.
1:05.7	And it is from Game Labs.
1:08.1	And if I'm not mistaken, it also has a little bit of a total war connection in that the
1:12.5	famous total war mod or Darth Mod is involved with this game.
1:16.2	So if you played the total war games, particularly Napoleon, the Darth Mods were always
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