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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 393: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Fraser, and guest Ian Williams pick up their chainswords and head to the far-flung future to play Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III. The original Dawn of War remains a favorite of the panel, and Dawn of War II had its charm. Does Dawn of War pull the series back into greatness? Well, that entirely depends on how you feel about MOBAs. And multiplayer. Because if you don't like those things, you may be left in the cold, unfeeling void of space.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.1

Joining me today, we have freelance writer, Fraser Brown.

0:06.5

Hello.

0:08.1

And we're also joined by freelance writer and vice sports columnist Ian Williams.

0:12.6

Hi, how's it going?

0:14.8

And today we're going to be talking about Dawn of War III, which is why Ian is here, since he wrote the

0:23.1

review for us over at Waypoint and is sort of a resonant 40K aficionado, which I feel has

0:32.1

at least some overlap with the wrestling beat you're on as well. Yeah, it's a whole lot of, like, crypto-fascism disguised as, like, humorous and light entertainment.

0:48.0

Well, they're not all crypt...

0:52.0

I say too much, but yeah.

0:55.0

Actually, now upon reflection, maybe they all are just different...

0:59.0

There's like crypto-fascist mystics and then there's just the straight-up fascists.

1:04.0

It's good.

1:05.0

It's good times.

1:06.0

Orcs are more like anarchic, I'd say.

1:08.0

I don't really think they have any real politics. They're maybe a little

1:12.6

bit, like, they're kind of into Darwin stuff because it's all like, you know, and maybe

1:18.5

Nietzschean almost. Yeah. I don't know. But maybe that's giving them too much credit. You're right,

1:24.6

but there's no way they'd be like organized enough. Their shit never together enough for like full-on fascism like that's the one

1:32.4

The orcs have the the orcs definitely have a heavy form of freedom

1:37.1

I suppose they like to fight that's everything is geared towards the idea that there's there's a fight

1:46.1

And they're always preparing for it.

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