Three Moves Ahead 27: Episode 27

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The panel welcomes Mark H. Walker to the round table for a bruising discussion of his upcoming squad based wargame Lock N Load: Heroes of Stalingrad. Bruce and Julian dominate an unusually combative conversation, which only shows how much we care. What is the place of narrative in war games? Do designers overestimate how intuitive their designs are? Apologies for the sound quality here. In spite of a perfect sound test earlier in the day, Mark’s satellite internet was not up to the task later that night so he had to phone in. Then the recording somehow made Troy’s comments appear three seconds later than they actually happened, making editing a real pain in the ass and borking the Dominions 3 discussion altogether. (Short version, Bruce didn’t send his turn but notice he was attacked by Julian’s deer men.) Lock N Load Matrix Games

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.0	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is a full panel of freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:12.0	Hello, if anyone wants a coffee, let me know. I'm running low on actual coffee beans, though, so I may not be able to get one for everyone.
0:20.0	Freelance writer Julian Murdoch. coffee beans, though, so I may not be able to get one for everyone.
0:23.7	Freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:29.5	So is this a sign of the freelance business really being terrible that you can't even afford beans for your expensive coffee maker?
0:31.8	Yeah, exactly.
0:32.5	It's a slow summer.
0:33.3	Once the holiday rolls around and all the holiday releases, I'll be rolling in coffee beans.
0:37.8	Rolling in Arabica. Do you have a song for that?
0:41.3	Sorry, say again.
0:42.6	Rolling in Arabica, do we have a song for that?
0:45.0	Exactly.
0:45.7	Hip-Up song.
0:46.9	And Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:49.6	I have a McDonald's unsweet iced tea.
0:53.9	Wow. Which is pretty much the opposite of good coffee. Actually, McDonald's makes good coffee. That's a dirty little secret amongst coffee drinkers. Dunkin' Donuts makes good coffee. They do as well. You know what? It's really hard these days... Can't find a Dunkin' Donuts anywhere. It's really hard these days to get a bad cup of coffee.
1:13.8	Come to my house, I'll help you out.
1:16.3	Who was that guy talking?
1:18.4	We have someone on the line, Troy.
1:19.6	We have a caller.
1:25.4	That voice out of the wilderness is our special guest for today from Lock and Load Publishing.
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