Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves

ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. Joining me

today, once again, is our friend, freelance writer, Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

And we also welcome back, former leave-escapist, now freelance writer and

strategy critic, Jonathan Bolding.

Hi, everybody. So today we're going to be taking a look at

Battlefleet Gothic Armada, a new 40K

naval warfare themed RTS from Tendalos Interactive.

John, I wanted to start with you a little bit because I think you're a little, you're

probably the most familiar with Games Workshops, Tabletop offerings out of any of us here on the show.

And, like, I'm curious, what is, you know, everybody knows the 40K tabletop game.

What is it, what is Battlefleet Gothic Armada building off of?

And what is sort of the key features that you think a game would have to capture in order to be a decent adaptation

of this theme to PC games?

So as a little bit of background, for me, Battlefleet Gothic was actually the very first

tabletop miniatures game that I collected and played.

And that was way back when they launched the line, and I would have had to have been 2003 or 2004.

And it was a relatively short-lived game as are most of Games Workshop's specialty games, but it's still, in theory, supported with the...

You can download the back rules and things like that for free.

So for me, I was very excited about this.

It was a, I had no idea at the time what a naval miniatures game was.

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