Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Tonight I'm joined by 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Hello. And tonight we welcome our friend, freelance writer, Ian Boudreau.

Hey, everybody.

And finally, we welcome designer Rod Humble, who I believe is best known for the war game Stavka OKH.

Rod, welcome to the show. Thank you very much.

So today we're going to be talking about an odd little modern war game called Armory Brigade by Vaitica Studios.

And it is one of those Cold War Turns Hot in the 1980s, you know, tactical war games modeling the, the war that never

was between the Warsaw Pact forces and NATO.

And right away, I begin running into trouble with how I describe this, because its structure

is so different from what I typically associate with a major war

game. Troy, why don't you tell us a little bit about what this game is and how it works.

What do you find when you open the box, as it were? I mean, look at this game as kind of on a

triangle. In one angle you have close, one of the angles you have close combat, one of the angles you have war game, and one of the angles you have flashpoint campaigns.

And at different parts of the game, you'll find yourself on the line between one or two of those angles.

And this game is reminiscent of so many other small-scale tactical war games

so that we've seen, a real-time tactical war game that we've seen in the last decade or so.

The...

The battles are generally quite small.

I love how you could... it comes with about a dozen different

scenarios. You know, in the Folda Gap region, you can play as the Germans or the Poles. You know,

as the Finns who aren't Fold the Gap really, but everyone likes the Finns because they're fun.

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