Three Moves Ahead 3: Three Moves Ahead Episode 3

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2009

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Troy Goodfellow and panelists Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk spend most of their time talking about Empire: Total War, with a lot of armchair game design. Tom challenges the very premise of the Creative Assembly design philosophy, Bruce rejects Tom's premise and Troy tries to get a word in edgewise. Learn for Tom's "perfect strategy game", Bruce's love of Dominions 3 and Troy's memories of Dagestan.Troy's review of Empire: Total War Tom's interview with Brian Fraser of Ironclad Studios Dominions mod forum Tom discovers Dominions on UsenetHave a question? Email me at troy DOT goodfellow AT gmail DOT com. And pick Bruce's homework assignment in the comments.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.
0:06.9	I'm your host, Troy Goodfellow. With me today are my regular panelists, Tom Chick.
0:11.6	Hello, everyone. Tom Chick here.
0:13.8	And Bruce Garrick.
0:16.0	It already feels like roomier in here. Like, you've got, I got one more elbow room. I can kind of put my feet up. It's the new studio.
0:23.5	It is the new studio
0:24.6	and the large
0:26.6	elbow Julian Murdoch is
0:28.7	not with us today. God, that guy took up
0:30.6	so much room. Oh!
0:33.0	He just laid his shit everywhere
0:34.5	and it's terrible.
0:37.7	So, we have a lot to talk about today, I think.
0:40.7	We should point out, by the way, Julian is just gone for this week.
0:44.6	He will be back.
0:45.5	We didn't kick him out.
0:46.6	We didn't exile him.
0:47.9	Julian has not been banished or kicked off the island.
0:51.3	He has simply had many better things to do this weekend,
0:55.6	things that don't involve gaming, I suspect.
0:57.7	Probably a richer, fuller life.
1:00.1	He was actually going to see a local community theater production of rent,
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