Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

Join me today, we've got Three Moose Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Hello, hello.

And this week we are discussing Gary Grigsby's and Keith Brewer's Steel Panthers series.

It tied for the winner of our last monthly Patreon backer poll, and we gave it the nod because it's a game that I think Troy and I both have very fond memories of and is perhaps a little more accessible in this day and age than some of the other games that were on that throwback wargaming list.

Although I might argue that's a debatable proposition having spent some time with the series this month.

So Troy, I think we should start out by discussing what Steel Panthers is, because even

there I start to hit a stumbling block.

For me, Steel Panthers was a classic World War II turn-based war game, and maybe one of the

last games of that mold that would break through and enjoy a wider reception among

PC gamers at large.

Like, I remember in middle school talking to other kids who got that game on a lark and were

really enjoying it.

Like, it was one of the last times where, like, a wargamer's war game was being played

by just about anyone who was into PC gaming at the time.

But that kind of leaves out most of the series history,

where it expanded its focus to cover company and battalion level combat

all the way into the modern era.

So let's talk about the Steel Panthers we remember,

and then let's talk about the Steel Panthers that we've been getting reacquainted with this month.

Yeah, well, the Steel Panthers, I mean, we remember.

I mean, this is a Gary Grigsby game, as you said, and Gary Grigsby's name has become kind of synonymous with

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