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

Join me tonight is Three Moves Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, everyone.

And we also welcome back, our friend Julian Murdoch.

Ha, ha, ha, you are all going to be pawns in my quest for global domination.

Yes, and we've been pursuing that quest a great deal this week because this week,

Twilight Struggle came out on PC.

This has been one of our favorite board games for the last few years, and this adaptation

has been in the works for some time, and we finally had a chance to play around with it this

week now that it's been launched.

This is, of course, an adaptation of the board game of Twilight Struggle,

which was designed by Jason Matthews and Ananda Gupta,

and is a bit of a darling of the show.

And, in fact, one thing I noticed when I was searching around for references to Twilight Struggle when I was writing up a little piece on this for PC Gamer is that 538, that bastion of rigorous statistical analysis deemed this the best board game on the planet. So there you have it. Today we are talking about the PC adaptation

objectively, the greatest board game ever made. I can't fault them a lot for that. I really can't.

I would say that. So we talked about this game on the show on the show before.

We actually had an Anda Gupta.

We've had him on the show a couple times.

And one of those times we dialed in Twilight Struggle a little bit, as well as his ambitions for Imperial Struggle, which is the seven years war version of Twilight Struggle, I believe.

But for those sort of just getting up to speed with Twilight Struggle,

Julian, I know this is one of your favorite games of all time.

Why don't you take us through it a little bit and explain how it works

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