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

Joining me today is just one other panelist. As usual, it's Troy. Troy Goodfellow. Welcome to the show. It is great to be back, tired from all the conferences this month, but they've stopped, and now I get to answer wonderful questions from our wonderful listeners. Yay! You mentioned the Kermit Arms flailing. Yeah, we were supposed to get a show

together for last week as well, but unfortunately I was traveling and I had an unexpected flight

delay. And because Troy was flying out the next morning, it was really ships passing and we

weren't quite able to land a show. This is sort of peak conference and travel season for both of us, and it's been really tough keeping the lights on, to be quite honest. And I think we're almost out of the woods, but, you know, knock on wood. I think so. I mean, the fall, I don't have any major travel plan, and I'll give you lots of advance notice. And there's a lot of neat things coming out this fall for us to talk about. Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be an exciting fall. It's been a pretty good year, as a matter of fact. It has. Anyway, so to lead off, today is a question and answer show. We've got so many questions and to judge from history, we're not going to get to very many of them because we tend to just, you know, suck all the marrow from each question.

So I will start with... from history, we're not going to get to very many of them because we tend to just, you know,

suck all the marrow from each question. So I will start with something that I think is simple.

We're going to start with something that should be simple. Simple is good. This is from, well, I don't

know, I don't know how to say this, S-L-P-L-S-S-S- Skelples on the Idol Thames forums.

He submits the following question to the panel.

It is often said that the military technology of World War II makes an especially good

conflict to model in strategy games, yet much of that technology was also present in the Spanish

Civil War, but that's a conflict that is rarely represented in games in both the digital and tabletop space.

Why do you think there is less interest in the Spanish Civil War?

A couple of reasons. First, the Americans weren't involved.

The International Brigade played a pretty large role.

But it wasn't the United States. It was an international brigade part of a company. So it wasn't like the United States, it wasn't like the Marines charging

in. So that's, so that's an important thing. There's going to be a natural bias to,

especially in modern stuff, modern warfare, to things that the United States was involved

in because that's where a lot of the games come from.

But also, there are only two sides.

There's really the Republicans and the nationalists.

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