Three Moves Ahead 4: Three Moves Ahead Episode 4

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week it's all about wargaming as John Hawkins from KE Studios comes in to talk about War Plan Pacific. Julian Murdoch returns to explain why he doesn't understand anything, Bruce Geryk would rather talk about Victory in the Pacific, Tom Chick almost rediscovers his love of wargames and Troy Goodfellow resorts to Star Trek Voyager to make a point. And stay for the end, where John Hawkins unveils his new project!(Some weather problems at Mr. Hawkins' end caused a little bit of feedback in places. Be patient.)KE Studios home page Victory in the Pacific at Board Game Geek Troy's review of War Plan Pacific The perfect strategy podcast?Have a question for the panel? Email me at troy DOT goodfellow AT gmail DOT com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.
0:05.6	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, with me tonight on a regular panel with Tom Chick.
0:11.0	Hello, I have a coffee here. If I can get anyone a coffee, let me know. I'm on that.
0:17.7	His partner in writing, Bruce Garrick.
0:23.3	What are you guys going to do now that the comedians did?
0:25.6	Spoiler!
0:30.3	What I mean spoiler? I'm talking about Milton Burrell.
0:35.3	Back with us this week is Julian Murdoch.
0:36.6	Welcome back to... Did you all miss me terribly? I know I didn't. Oh, you weren't here last week. That's what was missed. Oh, very funny, very funny. Our special guest today is John Hawkins of K.E. Studios. Hi, everybody. Thanks. Thanks for having me. He is the designer of one of last year's best war games, War Plan Pacific.
0:57.0	And only war games.
0:59.0	You've damned him with faint praise.
1:01.0	There were quite a few bad war games last year and very few good ones.
1:07.0	This one and Grigsby's War Between the States, the only two I thought worthy of mention in my year-end wrap-up.
1:14.6	It's a very bleak year.
1:17.3	So welcome to what Soren Johnson is called in his blog,
1:20.4	The Perfect Strategy Podcast,
1:22.8	which I think is probably the only strategy podcast.
1:26.5	That's like calling John's game the perfect war game.
1:32.0	Wasn't there a war game in the 80s called the perfect war game?
1:36.7	Well, the perfect general, I said it was called.
1:38.3	The Perfect General, which I always thought was too much pressure.
1:41.0	Wow, QQP.
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