Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. Tonight, I'm joined by our friend freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.

Hello, hello.

And we also welcome back, our friend, also freelance writer, Ian Boudreau.

Hey, everybody.

We're still early in the year, so I think we're still in the window where a show like this is topical, but also it's a good moment to take a look around and try to figure out what we're stoked

to cover later this year. Wish John Boulder going to be with us because he, I wanted to hear

him go off on this giant superstar destroyer that fantasy flight is selling people.

But we'll get to that.

So we're going to be talking about the strategy games that we are most looking forward to, and war games.

We're pretty ecumenical in our tastes here at Three Moves Ahead, that we are most looking

forward to this year.

What are the sort of tent pole releases for us?

Well, it's a tiny tent, I suppose, but nevertheless, what are we, what are we building our

year around?

Ian, I saw you wrote an entire article about this over at the Wargamer.

So, why don't we start with you?

What are some of the games you are most excited to be playing later this year?

Well, there's a couple pretty interesting projects on the war game side of things.

I think we've got a sequel to Panzer Corps coming up this year in theory.

And that's, I mean, more Panzer Corps. The ones that I was more kind of excited about were a project called Grand Tactician, the Civil War,

which looks to be a highly detailed, sort of sort of tactical level, um, look at some of the, uh, battles of the Civil War. Um, yeah, I got a scourge of war vibe from that. Uh, or maybe a Sid, Sids Gettysburg, uh, type vibe from it. It does. And the, um just like the fidelity of the simulation when you get down

to the ground. There's, you know, your units kind of have to be in, in bugle sound range in order for

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