Three Moves Ahead 409: Field of Glory II

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It's an ancients kind of week as Rob, Rowan, and Troy "I'm so good with the elephants my mates call me 'Elephant Man'" Goodfellow talk about Field of Glory II by Byzantine Games. FoG II started as tabletop system that was ported to the PC in the original Field of Glory and its Asian counterpart, Sengoku Jidai. The sequel improves the formula in almost every way and presents an extremely capable engine for designing and playing out tactical battles. The campaign falters a bit, but the crew is pleased overall.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Throoomuz ahead. I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.6	Joining me today, we have our friend, PC gaming...
0:07.8	Arbitur Elegantia.
0:10.0	Console. You wish.
0:11.4	Right?
0:12.4	That means you're currently reigning.
0:14.7	Like, at best, maybe you're a pro console, but honestly, I'm not sure you're far enough along
0:19.4	the cursus and Orum to really claim that.
0:25.2	I think the best we can hope for you, Rowan, is maybe a small little governorship in like Bethenia.
0:32.4	But I just thought it would be funny to be the PC gaming console because it rhymes or it's a homophone with the thing that
0:39.3	keep easy gaming is against. Oh, I thought you were actually saying console. No, I'd say both.
0:43.1	He's trying to make word play. It's a joke. It is a pun or a play on words. Well, it is playful.
0:50.3	I'll give you that. All right. Well, the whimsy, the whimsy never stops here in the 3MA that. All right. The whimsy never stops here in the 3MA intro.
0:58.0	All right.
0:58.4	Well, Michael's going to delete a minute here, so.
1:03.6	We also welcome back, our friend, freshly returned from Scandia, three-ma founder, Troy Goodfellow.
1:28.2	Actually, it's been almost two weeks now since I've been in Sweden, but... It seems like you just left, though. It always does, you know? That's one of the... I go and I feel like I'm there forever and I come back and I want to go back again. I'm almost running out of Swedish chocolate, though, so clearly I've... So you definitely need to return.
1:28.7	Yeah.
1:29.3	Very soon. No, it seems like it was like just the other day when I was getting pictures from that whiskey bar in Stockholm.
1:37.0	Everyone misses you and thinks you should come back.
1:40.1	Well, I definitely miss everybody, and I definitely miss that bar.
1:43.3	So we should try and make that happen.
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