You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

This is episode 52. We've made it through a year.

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

And with me today is a full panel, minus Bruce.

We have freelance writer Tom Chick.

If I can get anyone a coffee, the offer still stands.

Freelance writer Julian Murdoch, Fresh Team at Ecuador.

It's good to be back.

And freelance writer, Rob Zakeney.

Good evening.

So welcome everyone to the final episode of 52 weeks.

This week we're talking about Sins of a Solar Empire diplomacy, the new expansion, to one of the best large-scale RTSs, large-scale 4-X games of the last, good Lord, last how long, certainly one of my favorite games.

We're going to talk about diplomacy and what it adds,

what it subtracts, and how it changes the dynamics of sins of a solar empire. And I'm sure we

all have a lot to say about that. I know that Rob and Tom played against each other,

and Rob and Julian played against each other. So you've all had a lot of good multiplayer experience

with this. I've just had some single player stuff going on.

I'm just going to open this with saying that I hadn't played sins in a very long time.

It had been many months, and I had almost forgotten how elegantly slowly paste it was.

And I kept getting my ass handed to me over and over and over again by a very

aggressive computer.

I like the word you say elegantly and slow and I like the word stately.

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