Three Moves Ahead 475: Gerykon 2019: Reiner Knizia Games

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The Tehran Conference. The meeting at Appomattox. The Council of Elrond. All historical gatherings that pale in comparison to the summit that occurred in late July 2019 as the Three Moves Ahead team gathered in Oregon for several days of gaming. Hosted by Dr. Bruce Geryk, Gerykon 2019 was attended by Michael Hermes, Rob Zacny, and Troy "I hope they let me back into Canada" Goodfellow. Bruce played the part of eccentric board game sommelier, guiding the group through several layers of gaming history. Our first episode about Gerykon 2019 covers several entries from Reiner Knizia, a household name among those in the know. From the dizzying heights of Ra and Modern Art to the baffling lows of Beowulf, we consumed great amounts of scotch and had many discussions about game design and strategy. Also, Rob made up a really gross name for a painting.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney, together with the whole 3MA family for, you know, for the first time ever, I think.
0:10.5	We got our, we're at the home of our elite irregular panelist, Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:17.0	Hello gamers. Oh, God, that's more creepier in person than it is.
0:21.5	And that is our producer, Michael Hermes,
0:23.9	taking a break from his break and coming out to play some games with us.
0:28.7	Hell, yeah.
0:29.9	And we also have 3M.A. founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:32.7	Hello, hello.
0:34.5	And so far on this trip, you know, when you think of Bruce Garrick, you think of hardcore war games.
0:42.0	You think of heavily themed historical tabletop gaming.
0:46.9	So naturally, the first thing Bruce made us do was spend an entire day playing Reiner-Kenezia bidding games, which has been a bit of a
0:56.5	surprise.
0:57.1	And Bruce, you want to take me through the thought process here a little bit?
1:00.5	Mind you, I welcome the board game education that you always provide.
1:05.2	I treasure the experience and your insights.
1:08.4	But if memory serves, we go back to the very early days of three
1:11.8	moves ahead when it was Tom Chick and Troy and Julian Murdoch and you, I seem to recall that
1:18.3	you did not seem to have the warmest regard for Reiner Kenetia or you seem to be somewhat over
1:24.5	his games. And yet in the year of our, 2019, you said, damn it, boys, we have to spend a whole
1:33.5	day playing Kinesia games.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.1	And I'm not sorry we did either.
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