Three Moves Ahead 308: Order of Battle: Pacific

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the beginning, there was Panzer General and it was good. Soon after that came Panzer General 2 and it was even better. After that was another game we don't talk about. Fast forward a decade or so to Panzer Corps and things were back to good, unless you asked Troy, and some time after that we reach this week's topic of Panzer Boat. Rob, Tom, Bruce, and Troy "HMCS Uganda" Goodfellow get together to talk about Order of Battle: Pacific, a game that superficially shares a lineage with the venerable Panzer Corps and other Slitherine games. Rob and Troy took a shine to it while Tom and Bruce decide that they've sung this song, danced this dance, and sunk that carrier before. Hello Kitty is invoked, JRPGs are explained, and the Pacific Theater in general is likened to Warhammer 40K.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.5	Today we have a full compliment of the 3MA hands.
0:06.6	First, we've got 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:10.2	Hello, hello.
0:11.5	We also welcome our elite irregular panelist, Bruce Garrick.
0:15.1	Meow.
0:16.2	What?
0:17.7	Just going with it.
0:19.4	And finally, we welcome back our friend, Charterter 3M.A. Panalyst and quarter to three blogger, Tom Chick. Tom, welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm really disturbed at Bruce's intro. I don't know what to make with that. Well, and the pre-show, too. There's some weirdness going on. Like, this, like, I'm kind of wondering what's going on with Bruce today.
0:38.3	I don't know.
0:38.5	It's, I guess I just,
0:39.2	you know,
0:41.3	Saigon,
0:41.8	I'm still in Saigon. Every time I wake up, I think I'm back in the jungle. Like, Bruce showed up for the, Bruce, Bruce is having flashbacks to the Vietnam 65 show. He still, he still thinks he's an eidraig.
0:52.1	Hey, that's 25 years this,
0:53.8	uh, no, that's 50 years
0:56.0	this year, 25 years this, no, that's 50 years this year, 25 years since GMT's
0:59.6	Eadrang game.
1:01.2	I like that you're, I like that you also commemorate the anniversaries of the board games
1:05.4	about wars.
1:06.5	That's, that's dedicated.
1:07.8	That's a good one to commemorate.
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