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

On today's show, I'm joined once again by Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Hello, that's my Fraser impression.

We also welcome Gaslump Games technical director, Nicholas Vining.

Hi there.

So tonight, we're going to be talking about the new Nobunaga's ambition from Koai.

And this is an update, a refresh of a beloved strategy franchise.

And, you know, if you were a Super Nintendo gamer like me for a number of years,

Coe is a name that looms fairly large because they were one of the few developers

that were sort of offering real strategy games for consoles that you could play. But Nobunaga's

ambition is a series that I never really, never really got to experience. My big Coe games

actually were AeroBiz and I think it was Liberty or Death,

which was a bizarrely comprehensive American Revolutionary War game. And I think in my memory,

at least, still stands fairly tall as one of the better treatments of that war. Troy and Nicholas,

I wanted to ask you a little bit about your histories

with Koie games and whether or not you have any particular favorites among them. So I have this

disease where I can't actually play games that normal people play. It's the genetic condition,

I'm afraid. People, I try to play. Boy are you on the right show. Yeah, I know. I tried playing

Call of Duty once. I got this rash just all over my chest and these blotches. It's just awful.

I had to get a special cream for it. But that means I play things like Dwarf Fortress, and I play things like paradox titles,

and anything where you can move a grain silo. And anything odd seems to be what really appeals

to me as a gamer. And Koe games are definitely odd. They're sort of, they're their own weird magical thing. It's sort of like

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