Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. Join me tonight. We welcome

through Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow. Hello, hello. And we also welcome back, our elite,

irregular, and perhaps more irregular than usual, panelist, Bruce Garrick. Hello, all of you gamers.

So, Bruce, I think we brought you directly here from a shift at the hospital.

And you are burning with war gaming passion to talk about two by three games, War in the West, which is, I guess, ostensibly a sequel to War in the East, but really it's such a,

it feels to me like such an apples and oranges thing. It feels more like a different companion

volume. Yeah. It's just, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's basically, uh, an artist's impression of,

uh, what the war in the West would have been if it had been spawned from Barbaros.

So, yeah, let's get into this a little bit. So a few years ago, we talked a lot about Gary Grigsby's

War in the East, and I think a lot of us were surprised by how much we liked it, because I think with Gary Grigsby's War in the East and I think a lot of us were surprised by how much we liked it because

I think with Gary Grigsby and that brand of war game it tends to be associated with maybe

the spiritual descendants of Avalon Hills like Third Reich. Just ginormous, detail intensive,

sprawling war games that try to both encompass the massive sweep of an historical period campaign,

but also drill down into surprising layers of minutia and management and try to represent all of that authentically.

And the problem with doing that in a lot of cases is that it makes sort of the problem space

incredibly unwieldy, poses interface problems, it poses comprehension problems for the

player. And yet Warren the East, I think, largely transcended those. And I was very, very excited when Warren the West was in the works, but it's taken

us a little while to get around to it.

Sam wasn't excited.

You weren't.

So, yeah, why don't you sort of set some of the stage for what your expectations and

apprehensions were around war in the West and

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