Three Moves Ahead 322: Wing Leader

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bruce and Troy "I really made a Messerschmitt" Goodfellow are joined by noted game designer Lee Brimmicombe-Wood to talk about Lee's new game, Wing Leader. Wing Leader is a side-view aerial combat game that allows players to simulate different weather conditions and air combat scenarios.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to Three Moves Ahead.
0:02.2	I am your proto host, Bruce Garrick.
0:05.8	Tonight we have a return guest, and for that talk, I am joined by Three Moves
0:11.6	Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:13.6	Troy, welcome to your show.
0:16.0	It's always nice to get a chance to talk to you, Bruce, especially about this game,
0:20.5	which you and I had a chance to play just earlier last month.
0:25.9	Last month, exactly.
0:27.3	And that game was designed by our guest.
0:29.8	Our guest is Lee Brumacomwood from across the Atlantic.
0:34.1	Lee.
0:35.3	Hello.
0:35.5	Welcome to this show.
0:37.0	Again.
0:40.6	Good to be back. It's supposed to been three years, is it?
0:49.0	Three years. We talked, yes, we had discussed that May of 2012, you and I talked about your game Bomber Command.
1:13.7	And that was a wonderful chat. Now you have a new game. The game is called Wingleader. It came out, I guess, in late July. My copy actually didn't drop into my hands, I think, until some around August 1st. And then, as Troy mentioned, he and I had the wonderful good fortune of being able to play it against each other in person. So we have, well, I have a lot of thoughts. I assume Troy does too. This is a game that has been in the works for some time. I was
1:22.7	actually, I was sort of a casual observer of your playtest. I was involved in the playtest, but I was on the group and watched some of the discussion,
1:32.1	thought it was very, very interesting.
1:34.6	I have to say that the most notable point of investigation of this game for me was when I
1:42.5	logged on to your playtest, looked at all of the
1:45.4	all the game files, and saw that the board presented the aircraft. So this is a game about
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