Three Moves Ahead 383: Distant Worlds and Aurora

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The title of the patron backer poll was: "What two (2) inscrutable games do Rob and Troy have to explain to each other?" We found the most incrutabl-iest games we could for our list and the backers voted: Distant Worlds and Aurora would be the games to play. Unfortunately, Troy's head exploded during his valiant effort so this week Rob and Michael will talk about these two behemoths of space strategy. They won't cover everything and won't get everything right, but maybe - just maybe - they'll sell you on what makes these challenging games worth your time. Or not. Probably not.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:04.3	Join me today, we have making one of his rare appearances, the man behind it all, our producer
0:10.2	Michael Hermes.
0:11.4	Hello.
0:13.0	So, this is a Patreon episode.
0:16.9	This is an episode that people voted on the topic.
0:19.5	But really, I think, Michael, you were the author of this episode, this catastrophe.
0:26.3	Oh, come on now.
0:28.6	No, we're going to have words.
0:30.3	Okay.
0:30.4	But what do you take us through what was proposed for Patreon backers to vote on?
0:41.6	And what you wanted to sort of get from challenging me and at the time we thought Troy was going to be able to be on the show
0:45.6	challenging the two of us to take on the games you put forth okay so part of this was
0:52.0	part of this was malicious and part of this was just genuine curiosity
0:59.1	as far as what you guys would make of what I pitched.
1:03.5	So what I was going for was what are some of the games that most likely would never get
1:10.1	their own episode.
1:11.3	And they wouldn't get their own episode because they're just too big.
1:14.8	They're too complex, too finicky, too something, right?
1:18.8	So I have the list here.
1:21.2	We had, in order, as voted by our backers, it was distant worlds universe, Aurora
1:27.3	4X, Command Modern Air Naval Operations, Unreal World, and DCS A10 Whartog, which apparently not very many people wanted to watch you guys play.
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