Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney. Joining me tonight is Three Moves Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. It is good to be back. It feels like it's been forever, though it probably hasn't been. It's all that time in the trenches. Oh, God. Sad, sad times. We also welcome back our elite irregular panelist, Bruce Garrick.

Yeah.

Hello gamers.

So is that your St. Patrick's Day accent?

I don't know.

I thought it was my Viking accent.

Is that what it is?

You're not a master of accents then.

I didn't get Viking from that, actually.

I got like Borat trying to do Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but missing.

Okay. That's fine. All right.

There are no Irish in this game, right? Oh wait, no way there are.

Oh, God, yes. Of course there are.

Yeah, okay.

So this week we are continuing our winter into spring of war gaming, and we'll discuss that later.

We are continuing our winter of war gaming, and we'll discuss that later.

We continue our winter of war gaming with John Tiller's squad battles First World War.

And John Tiller is sort of a legendary war game designer and a very old school one, and the squad battle series is probably one of the biggest games in town when it comes to sort of squad level turn-based combat.

Not that's a booming genre these days, but there you have it.

And so, and partly because I've been interested in World War I for a while, and because there aren't actually that many games that cover World War I on a

tactical level, I thought we'd definitely give this one a look. And I have to say it's pretty

interesting, although it comes with a whole lot of caveats. But Troy, why don't we start with you?

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