Three Moves Ahead 418: They Are Billions

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week Rowan, Fraser, and Troy "Why are you slathering me in zombie-q sauce?" Goodfellow talk about They Are Billions by Numantiam games. Zombies are back, but there are even MORE of them in this Early Access title. They Are Billions is a real time strategy game that has you manning the ballistae and defending your steampunk-ish city against relentless waves of the shambling dead.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to Three Moves Ahead.
0:02.3	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:04.8	Bring you all the latest coolest strategy news and reviews and critique for 2018.
0:10.5	And we have a really new, exciting, interesting game to talk about to start off our year, championed by one of our panelists, the long-absent, and we're happy to have him back, freelance writer Fraser Brown.
0:22.6	Hello, it's nice to be back.
0:24.8	Yes, I had no idea you hadn't been on in so long. It just does not seem right.
0:28.8	I know. I'm a very busy boy, so...
0:31.7	Busy is good for a freelance writer.
0:34.6	And joining us from the West Coast, our favorite curmudgeon from Games Beat, Mr. Rowan Kaiser.
0:42.7	Hello.
0:44.4	So today we're talking about a game in early access, and we don't talk about a lot of games in early access because who knows what they will turn into.
0:52.1	This, again, is getting quite a bit of buzz, and that sits in a very weird space in strategy and game design,
0:58.5	trying to be a lot of very different things.
1:00.7	So we're going to talk a bit about its design and its ambitions,
1:04.2	and this is a game that's being pushed by Fraser.
1:07.3	So I want you to talk to us a bit about what is special, unique, and interesting about
1:13.7	zombie killing RTS. There are billions. Yeah, it's kind of a weird hybrid of like tower and base
1:24.6	defense games, zombie survival games,
1:29.7	and you're kind of traditional Age of Empires, Settlers-style RTS.
1:37.6	And it's very, very simple.
1:41.0	A lot of hybrids overcomplicate things.
1:43.8	But this is really just straight up,
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