Three Moves Ahead 293: Close Combat

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Winter of Wargaming continues with Rob, Bruce, and Troy "We Need More Canadians" Goodfellow talking about the Close Combat series. The series saw a refresh in 2014's Gateway to Caen - was it enough of an update or has the series gone stale?

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0:00.0	Good evening, and you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:04.1	Joining me tonight for another installment of our Winter of Wargaming is Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:10.7	Troy, welcome to the show.
0:12.1	Good evening, everyone.
0:13.4	And we also welcome our elite irregular panelist, Bruce Garrick.
0:18.4	Hello, Wargamerers.
0:22.2	So tonight we're going to be talking about probably my favorite series in all of Wargaming.
0:30.2	Oh, my God.
0:31.3	Really?
0:31.9	Okay, here we go.
0:32.7	All right, fine.
0:33.4	You want a piece of me?
0:34.4	Fine, let's do this.
0:35.3	No, I'm just surprised.
0:36.8	That's all.
0:37.2	Just shocked. No, well, part of it is, tonight we're going to be talking about the close combat series. And I think the reason that it is so near and dear to my heart is that it was sort of one of the first serious war games I got into. Ages and ages ago, my grandparents bought me a copy of Close Combat 2, A Bridge Too Far for Christmas,
0:55.0	and it pretty much eclipsed whatever the hell else I got that year.
1:00.0	I don't even remember because a Bridge Too Far is genius.
1:03.0	Sucks. You got Sucks.
1:04.0	I agree with you.
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.0	Bish Too Far is great.
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