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

Join me today, once again, is our friend, freelance writer Fraser Brown.

Festive felicitations.

We also welcome back, freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.

Whoa.

So it is just about a new year, a new time for strategy gaming, a new era. But it is also an appropriate

time to sort of look back at 2015 and what some of our highlights were. And, you know, fellas,

I got to say, like, when I sat down to start, like, actually writing down a list of things

that came out this year, there were quite a lot of good games this year.

And it's weird because like I had been feeling in the late fall that I was like,

boy, it feels like it hasn't been that big year for strategy.

But no, I had forgotten all the great games that came out in the spring and last

winter. I think what happens so often when I look back in the last year, I really look back

at the last six months and I forget about all of these amazing things that came between, you know,

January and June.

I completely forget.

And like yourself, looking back, I was like, wow, actually, this year has been pretty,

there's been a lot of rich stuff for us to kind of delve into.

Yeah, it's been a really good year. I feel like we haven't had like a huge A-plus amazing game that everyone is talking about,

and that makes it hard.

But there have been a lot of like A-minus B-plus games that have made this year pretty

fun overall.

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