Three Moves Ahead 533: Old World

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Troy, Len, and Jon gather by the fire to discuss Old World, the new ancient world 4X from Civilization IV designer and prolific 3ma guest Soren Johnson. Does the tighter timeframe help or hinder it? Is it just ancient Civ? Is that even a bad thing? How many more questions can I come up with? Does this description still look too short? This is probably a good place to stop, right?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host for this week, Len Hafer.
0:05.5	Join today by our friend freelance writer, John Bolding.
0:09.2	Howdy, everybody.
0:11.0	And by 3M.A founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:14.3	Hello, everyone.
0:16.3	And we are here today to talk about Old World.
0:19.4	It is a historical 4X game set in the ancient Mediterranean
0:24.4	by Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson, who is a...
0:30.6	I don't know, can we still call him a friend of the show?
0:32.9	It seems like it's been a long time since he's been on here.
0:35.6	He was on last year to talk about the Sid Beyer book.
0:39.9	Oh, that's right.
0:40.6	That's right.
0:41.2	It was on that episode.
0:43.5	Yeah.
0:44.7	So 3M.
0:46.5	3M.A adjacent designer, Sorah Johnson and Mohawk games.
0:53.8	John, really quick, what exactly is Old World to somebody who hasn't played it yet?
0:58.7	And how is it different from just like ancient civilization?
1:03.1	Well, in many ways, Old World is just ancient civilization.
1:06.7	But in a way that is much more interesting than you might initially assume based on that description, right?
1:15.3	It's a it's a game that's very much the modern hex-based civilization building game,
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