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

Joining me in the Three Moves Ahead Keep this week is Three Moose Ed founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Troy, welcome to the show.

It is good to be here, and welcome back. You've had two weeks off.

And they have been luxurious, peaceful weeks. Absolutely.

I'm so glad I didn't get to take part in last week's show, one of my favorite games of the fall.

I'm so thrilled I missed that.

But so it goes this time of year.

Well, you'll have something to write about it somewhere, I hope, before the year is up.

You'll do a year-end something. Yeah, someone's going to try it and stop me, but they won't be able to.

There we go.

This week, we are talking about Castle Games, apropos of Stronghold Crusader 2.

And it's an interesting blend of the city manager and the real-time strategy game.

And it always seems like this little quirky subgenre has always straddled these two things.

And so since Stronghold Crusader 2 just came out, it seemed like a good time to examine this odd little niche in strategy gaming. So, you know, before we get into Stronghold

Crusader 2, Troy, what is it about castles that people love and what is it that games are

trying to sort of bring to life about the subject matter? Well, people love about castles is the

size. I mean, I love the idea of building this

huge fortress that they can fill with death traps and then defend against other people coming

to take it. I mean, they're always in every castle game, almost every castle game, there's

the counter side. We're trying to take down the castle

and bring down the big fort.

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