Three Moves Ahead 44: Religion

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2009

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A subtle shifting of the guard as Julian Murdoch is back after hiatus, but Troy Goodfellow is off for a week, leaving Julian at the mercy of the far more stable Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk. The topic is religion: does it work in a strategy game as a mechanic? Has anyone done it better than Civ IV? Bruce argues for Dominions and random boardgames about the reformation nobody's ever heard of. Tom revisits the Sims and Europa Universalis, and Julian goes off-topic and spoils all of Assassins Creed 2 (You've been warned.)

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0:00.0	Well, I was born an original sinner.
0:05.9	I was born from original sin.
0:09.5	And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done, there'd be a mountain of money pile up to my chin.
0:20.1	Well, not that you'd ever know it, but you're listening to three moves ahead, the official
0:24.7	podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:27.6	I am not Troy Goodfellow, who could not be with us this week.
0:31.6	I am Julian Rabbit Murdoch, and I'm here with our usual cast of clown car attendees. Tom Chick. How are you, Tom?
0:40.3	I'm fine. Can I get you a coffee, Julian Rabbit Murdoch? No, I'm fine. I'm drinking white wine tonight.
0:46.0	And we have Bruce Garrick, who sounds positively awake. Hello gamers.
0:52.6	By the way, for our music cue, Julian, can someone let Bruce know that the 80s have been over for about 20 years now?
1:00.2	A long time.
1:01.7	And that was the best he could come up with for our topic of the week, which is religion in strategy games, which is, I guess, an apropos topic going into the Christmas week here, huh?
1:14.9	Because religion has a lot to do with shopping?
1:18.2	Because, well, it's too-shay.
1:20.8	It's happy holidays.
1:22.1	Happy holidays.
1:23.6	We're wedged here in between Hanukkah and Christmas.
1:26.8	Right.
1:28.9	So I'm actually kind of curious about this.
1:31.2	So this is,
1:31.8	I think this is kind of controversial because I remember Tom has been advocating this kind of stuff for a long time.
1:36.4	I think at one point,
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