Three Moves Ahead 464: Dota 2 Auto Chess

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Here's the word cloud for this week's episode: Dota2, mod, sports management, moba, battle royale, open world survival game with roguelike elements (jk but we need that SEO), deckbuilding, tower defense. That's right, we're talking about the mod for the game that's a copy of a mod for another game that has nothing to do with either of the things in its title: Dota 2 Auto Chess. Auto Chess is Dota 2 mod that you can play right now, for free. It's taking the world by storm, and it contains a satisfying combination of team management and long-term strategy. Rob, Rowan, and Taylor Cocke talk us through what the heck it is, how it works, and why Taylor seems to like it so very much. Also, a surprising amount of basketball commentary.

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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	Tonight we are joined once again by GamesBeats Grandmaster, Chessmaster, Rowan Kaiser.
0:12.2	Games meets Troll Warlord. Hello. Oh, God.
0:16.9	And we also welcome back, our friend Taylor Cock.
0:20.3	Hello there.
0:21.6	So I was a little bit, I was excited, first of all, when Rowan said we should do a chess show.
0:29.6	And I thought what a cute idea somebody made chess out of like the donut characters.
0:36.6	And that would be, yeah, it would be a cute little like
0:38.9	what's the relation between theme and mechanics and all that stuff but what I did not expect
0:45.2	was whatever the hell Dota auto chess is I certainly didn't think it would be a chess themed
0:52.4	battle royale but I suppose what I most didn't anticipate was that it would be such perfect
0:58.5	Rowan Kaiser beat, Kaiser bait.
1:02.3	Kaiser beat is the game's beat spin-off.
1:04.8	Yeah, that's upcoming.
1:06.5	I wasn't expecting such perfect Rowan bait, honestly.
1:10.1	And once I started playing this thing and started to figure out what the hell was going on,
1:15.3	in part thanks to our absent friend John Boldings,
1:18.8	here's what the hell is going on in Dota Auto Chess article for PC Gamer,
1:24.2	which I found enormously helpful as I unpacked this,
1:30.1	it started dawn on the maybe why I've seen Rowan playing this damn game so much lately. It is a lot of, it combines a lot of
1:39.0	what's fun about mobas, you know, hero selection, you know, synergies between classes. But then I would
1:48.7	also argue there is an element of party building and sports franchise management built into
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