Three Moves Ahead 459: Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Tyranids

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the grim dark future there is only war. No, really. In Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War, there is no diplomacy system. All of that nonsense has been put aside in lieu of 40K chainsword murder. Gladius manages to be a chimera of strategy games. Is it a 4X? Part of an RTS? Grimdark Civ? Whatever it is, Rob and Fraser generally like it.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.5	Today on this snowy Sunday, we just got a bit of a blizzard here in Massachusetts.
0:09.1	I'm flying with just one wingman today.
0:11.4	It is our old friend, Long Lost, Fraser Brown.
0:15.8	Hello.
0:16.8	Oh, I get to be Iceman.
0:18.3	That's exciting.
0:20.2	Well, I don't, I suppose.
0:22.1	I consider myself more of an Iceman figure.
0:25.5	I mean, I think you're more of a goose, really.
0:28.2	Like, nothing against you, but we both know which of us is going to just get killed, ejecting from a Tomcat.
0:35.4	I'm not very good at singing, though.
0:38.1	Well, neither were any of them.
0:40.0	That was the whole point.
0:41.6	That was the point of that scene.
0:43.5	I feel like Goose had the most skill, though.
0:46.4	That's true.
0:47.6	I mean, the problem is that, like, none of what you see in Top Gun would really, like,
0:52.5	these were not cool dudes.
0:53.6	That's the amazing thing about that movie, is it is this weird alternate reality where all that crap somehow works.
1:02.0	And you look at it and they're just the worst, like, douchebags.
1:06.7	It's unbelievable.
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