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

Joining me tonight is, well, holy hell, look at this. It is the band. Back together at Long Last.

We start off, of course, with Troy. Troy, welcome to the show.

It's good to be back again.

And then we are also joined by none other than Julian Rabbit Murdoch.

Very excited to be back on one of my favorite things to ramble on about in the world, which is flying.

And we also welcome back Dr. Bruce Garrick.

Bruce, welcome to the show.

Hello gamers.

Oh, there we go.

A little frisson of dread runs up my spine, and I know that Bruce is the mouse.

So we've got kind of an odd show here because we have sort of a topic, but it covers so much ground that I'm really kind of curious to see where this is going to go.

In keeping with our World War I theme this month, we have to address the fact that,

while World War I has not been a popular subject for games in most contexts,

it's exercised a fascination in terms of its air war.

While I certainly would put this down probably to the influence of Snoopy and Peanuts on a popular culture, I suspect there may be a little bit more to it. So Julian, your eyes lit up like a child on Christmas morning when I said this was going to be the topic. So tell us why, what's so great about these old crates of planes and World War I aviation?

Well, so first I want to put the caveat up front because we're going to spend like an hour talking

about simulating aerial combat. We should point out that historically, aviation in World War I was pretty much

meaningless.

I mean, as far as, like, determining the outcome of the war, it was a tactical ampersand in

everybody's strategies.

But that doesn't really matter.

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