Three Moves Ahead 381: Ultimate General: Civil War

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Rowan, and Troy "My favorite civil war documentary was F Troop" Goodfellow get together to talk about Ultimate General: Civil War. Game-Labs had an impressive debut with Ultimate General: Gettysburg, putting out a game that was lauded by the community at large as well as our panelists. With UG: Civil War, they take on a much larger task by adding persistent units, more battles, and a grander scale. But are they up to such a daunting task? Can they overcome the focused genius of the first game? As it turns out: yes. Yes, they can.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:03.3	Joining me today, we have 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:07.3	Happy 2017 to everyone.
0:10.1	And we're also joined by freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.
0:13.4	Hello.
0:14.9	So tonight we welcome you to a new year and a new winter of war gaming.
0:20.5	We're going to kick off with one of the more exciting war games out there right now,
0:25.1	Ultimate General Civil War, which is a sequel to one of our recent favorites from the last
0:29.4	couple of years, Ultimate General, Gettysburg.
0:33.0	Ron, I want to start with you because I think you and I both had very leery reactions when this was first announced.
0:40.1	I remember we were talking about it.
0:41.6	We saw it on Twitter, and I think we were I-Ming that night being like, what are they doing?
0:45.8	What are Game Labs doing?
0:48.1	So real quickly, like, what's Ultimate General Civil War doing differently?
0:52.3	Like, what's it bringing to the table that Ultimate General
0:55.0	Gettysburg did not? And why were we so skeptical?
0:57.0	Well, I mean, Gettysburg is a fairly special battle in a lot of ways, particularly in terms of the Civil War.
1:05.0	It's by far the biggest. It has the most, you know, documentation of massive turning points and so on.
1:12.5	It's basically a perfect little slice of something that can become a good tactical war game.
1:20.0	And trying to just take that engine and apply it to the entire war with all of its battles that were generally not so
1:30.6	interesting and also include a campaign mode seemed like a really ambitious push.
1:36.3	Like is it just going to be, you know, the same engine with some bull runs and some
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