Three Moves Ahead 457: A Look Back at 2018

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

We threw restraint to the wind with our 2018 wrapup this year, so you get TWO episodes for for the same great price. Session one has Rob, Troy "this is the year my musical theater career takes off" Goodfellow, and Jon Bolding talking about their favorite games. After that, T.J. Hafer, Sean Sands, and Rowan Kaiser go into their top picks including all the Paradox-y stuff that we don't let Troy talk about. It's a long episode for what felt like an incredibly long year. 2018 hit us with a lot of political, military, and economic turmoil, so sometimes it's good to kick back with a strategy game and focus instead on political, military, and economic turmoil that we can control. These are our top (and maybe not so top) picks of the year.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. Tonight, I'm
0:03.6	joined once again by 3MA founder Troy Goodfellow.
0:06.9	Hello, hello, and happy New Year.
0:08.6	Happy New Year. And to start this New Year's off right, we are also joined by our
0:14.0	friend Freelance writer John Bolding. Howdy, howdy. All right, so, you know, it's the start
0:20.4	of a new year, which means it's a very good time to consider
0:23.8	the best things that the old one brought to us. And so we're going to talk a little bit about,
0:29.2	you know, the great games we played, some positive and negative trends, trends we may have
0:34.9	seen. But John, I thought we, I thought you'd let us start off because we haven't
0:38.4	checked in with you in a little bit. If you had to single out some of your strategy highlights
0:44.5	from 2018, where would you begin? So for me, 2018 started really strong because I got Dominions
0:53.1	5.
0:56.2	And that was big.
0:59.1	I've always been a Dominions fan.
1:04.0	I think anyone who listened to the Dominions 5 podcast this year got that sense.
1:06.8	And that was awesome, right?
1:09.5	Like something big and thick and delicious to dive into.
1:15.4	At the same time, we got two great expansions for Total War Warhammer 2 this year.
1:17.6	We got six ages.
1:21.4	We got Mutant Year Zero here late in the year, which was great.
1:25.9	We got Two Point Hospital, which was an excellent management game,
1:27.8	balanced out some of the other disappointing management games this year. And we got a whole year of delicious micro strategy games. We got
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