Three Moves Ahead 548: 2021 Recap

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Troy and Len are joined by PCGamesN's Ian Boudreau and Fanbyte's Mike Williams to look back on a year that's a bit hard to summarize. Why can't we find a theme to slap on 2021? What were some of the biggest surprises, good and bad? And what were our favorite strategy games in what was, if nothing else, kind of a weird year for them?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host for this week, Len Hafer, joined by 3M.A co-founder Troy Goodfellow.
0:11.0	Hello, hello.
0:12.2	We also have FanBite staff writer Mike Williams.
0:17.3	Hello, hello, good folks.
0:20.4	And PC Games' end's senior news writer Ian Boudreau.
0:24.8	How's it going, everybody?
0:26.7	Whose name I will not misspell, I swear, this time in the show notes.
0:31.6	It's fine.
0:33.2	Yeah. Is that, you called that the Cajun X. Is that the difference that like the ones who went south put X's on the end and the ones who stayed up north didn't?
0:42.0	That's usually the the split that I've seen.
0:44.4	Yeah.
0:45.4	Like the Louisiana Boudreau's spell it with the X and everybody.
0:50.3	Gotcha.
0:51.2	Yeah.
0:52.2	Canadian and French.
0:53.2	Yeah. usually without.
0:56.0	Interesting.
0:57.4	Well, we're here to talk about 2021, which was kind of a weird year for strategy games.
1:03.0	Some stuff got pushed back.
1:06.0	Total War Warhammer 3, I think, is like one of the big notable ones.
1:09.5	It kind of felt compared to the two years that came before it, it kind, is like one of the big notable ones. It kind of felt, compared to the two
1:12.0	years that came before it, it kind of felt like a slow year. And feel free, if any of you
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