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Three Moves Ahead 525: Unity of Command II - Barbarossa

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Troy and Rob are joined by Kotaku's Luke Plunkett to discuss Unity of Command II's Barbarossa expansion. How much of the frustration you feel leading the Germans on the Eastern Front comes from any given game, and how much of it comes from the mere situation of leading the Germans on the Eastern Front?

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0:00.0

Good evening. We're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Job, Zachny.

0:03.1

Tonight, I am joined by Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

0:06.5

Good evening.

0:07.6

And our friend Katakus, Luke Blunkett.

0:10.5

Hey, guys. Thanks for having me back.

0:12.1

Oh, thanks for coming back.

0:13.6

So tonight we're revisiting Unity of Command 2 in part because that game just had its

0:19.7

Barbarossa expansion.

0:21.4

This follows on the heels of its War in the West expansion,

0:26.9

where it covered their,

0:30.9

I think it was actually Blitzkrieg and then War in the West,

0:32.9

but basically their campaigns covering the invasion of Poland

0:36.6

and the invasion of France.

0:38.8

So now they come back to Barbarossa, which is, of course, ground the Unity of Command

0:43.4

series has already covered with Unity of Command 1. And I was really interested in seeing how

0:50.2

Barbarossa felt in this new system, because it is a very different game than Unity of Command

0:56.2

1. And I thought this would be an interesting moment to sort of compare side by side what these two

1:03.8

games really are about and how when you sort of model the same campaign in both systems, it takes on, in my opinion, a completely

1:15.5

different cast. And just to let you know, it turns out I'm a much worse general in Unity

1:21.6

of Command, too. Barbarossa is impossible. I don't know how anything good happened for the Germans in that campaign,

1:30.7

because it certainly didn't break that way for me. How did you all find it? I mean, Unity

1:37.3

of Commandant 2 is a harder game, and then Unity of Command 1. It's got a lot more going on. I think

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