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

Tonight, after a long, bitter campaign to get him on the show, we welcome freelance writer Dan

Griliopoulos.

Dan, at long last, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, and very well done for pronouncing my name correctly.

I was nervous about it, but I decided I'd swing for the fences.

So, yeah, this episode was delayed by a variety of factors, including Dan's responsibilities as a new dad and my own hectic schedule last week.

But the biggest issue was probably tonight's topic itself, Mindscape's 1995 Warhammer Fantasy game, Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat.

This is a game that I've long wanted to do an episode

of Three Moves Ahead on, but it was not really available to play anywhere. And when it finally

was re-released on Good Old Games a few weeks ago, I got very excited and decided to see who

in the gaming, games journalism world has played it. And the answer, apparently, is just Dan, which is interesting, because this is a

game that I think sort of was, had kind of a major reputation and was ahead of its time in a lot of

ways. But I'm not even sure it has become a cult classic. It seems to be the game that a lot of people just completely missed.

So, Dan, why do you tell us a little bit about what Shadow of the Horned Rat is and sort of what makes it special when you juxtapose it against its contemporaries?

I guess, looking at it today, it's precursor to the total war games and those kind of

huge scale battle games with large campaigns, but it has a story and it has good characters and it has

the depths of the Warhammer world to explore. It's also ridiculously hard.

So that might explain why no one's played it,

because most people who start playing it,

get one or two missions in,

and just have to give up, because the game

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