Good evening. We're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney. Join me tonight.

We welcome Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, everyone.

And we also welcome back our friend from Disruptor Beam, David Heron.

Hello.

So today we're going to be talking about one of the most asked, frequently asked questions

to the Three Moves Ahead email.

And a question that I just get a lot, and I suspect you get a lot as well, Troy, which is that

what's a good strategy game for someone to play who doesn't have a ton of time to sink into

some sort of epic length grand campaign? And that's part of tonight's topic. But the other part

of it is this. When I'm asked this question, I usually struggle to answer it because I don't feel

like particularly these days, if you're talking about like PC strategy games and war gaming, I don't feel like it's an embarrassment of riches when you're trying to sort of satisfy like this need.

And so that's the other thing I want to talk about is, you know, first, like, what games would we

recommend? But then also, am I the only one who feels like there's kind of a dearth of the

short-form strategy game, the short-form war game, especially on PC? And, you know, if there

is that sort of lack, what's behind it? And so I just wanted to sort of throw it open to you.

You know, first of all, do either of you have sort of immediate go-to responses when you get this question?

You know, for the person who, you know, who has kids, a busy job, who only has, you know, a few hours of strategy gaming in a week, where should that time be spent?

I mean, I go to, I mean, it is a very hard question to answer,

but my go to is generally interested in war games.

I just recommend war games with really good scenario campaigns

or that are chopped up into nice little bits.

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