Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am once again your host, Troy Goodfellow.

And I am here to talk about, here as you close in on the end of 2016, I'm here to talk about

what I think was one of the best games of 2015, because Three Moves Ahead is always topical

and on time. It's a game I talked about a bit last year, but in a great detail,

and it's to show that I've been wanted to do for a while, but it's a matter of getting people

in place for it, and the game is called Rule the Waves.

It is a...

Well, I'll explain what it is in a bit, but to help me get through this,

we have a regular panelist and founding three moves ahead member, Dr. Bruce Garrick.

Hello gamers.

And making his first appearance on the show, and if it goes well, maybe there will be more.

We have four game enthusiasts, a YouTuber, and very interesting guy to follow on Twitter. Matthew Flanagan,

Matthew, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So Matthew, since you're a guest,

we'll start with you. You've done a lot of YouTube videos about Roll the Waves. This is a game

you probably know better than any of us do, though I'm a huge fan of it.

If you were to make the elevator pitch for Rule the Waves, what is it?

I would say it's a early 1900s Grand Admiral.

Simulator might be the wrong word, but it's basically a game that puts you in the shoes of being, you know, Alfred von Terpitz or Jackie Fisher.

Not Jackie Stewart.

No.

So, I mean, basically the game puts you in the role as the head admiral in any of the great powers, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, and you could even play as the Confederate States in sort of a hypothetical alternate universe, and puts you in charge of building the Navy of your dreams. It allows you to fight battles as well when you do end up going to war, and it also allows you to make certain influences on political decisions, although the actual

politics is a little bit more random. It's not really based on history or anything like that.

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