Three Moves Ahead 550: Expeditions: Rome

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Len and Troy plunge gladius-first into the Late Republic to win victories on the tactical and strategic scale in Expeditions: Rome. The third installment in the series has more going on than ever before, but is it /too/ much? And what is the correct way to pronounce Cicero, anyhow? We came. We played. We did a podcast about it.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Len. I am your host for this week, and I am joined by 3MA co-founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:10.1	Well, I'm the co-founder. I'm the founder. I'm the founder. I just copy what Rob always introduces you as, which is a co-founder.
0:21.6	Does he? Oh, well.
0:22.6	You know.
0:23.6	But yeah, I'm not going to, all the other, none of the other founders are regulars anymore.
0:26.6	It was all my idea.
0:27.6	But anyway, I'm just, I'm just being cute.
0:30.6	Because I'm tired.
0:32.6	You're also one of the most knowledgeable people about the era that we're going to be talking about
0:38.4	that I know personally because we are discussing Expeditions Rome this week, which I didn't
0:45.7	have the Steam page pulled up, but I believe it is...
0:49.3	The Logic Artists.
0:51.2	This is the third game, the third game in the expedition series.
0:54.7	Right.
0:55.1	They made a Viking game, which I quite enjoyed as an enjoyer of Viking things.
1:00.0	And then I think before that, there was a conquistador one that I kind of steered clear of because it sounded like, I don't know.
1:07.7	That's just a tough, tough fantasy to tackle if you can call it that.
1:14.8	But yeah, it's set during the late Republic.
1:19.2	You get to meet Caesar, you get to meet, you know, Cato, all these guys, and
1:25.3	fight in some of the prominent conflicts of the time.
1:29.6	Troy, I know you haven't finished it yet.
1:30.8	How far through the story are you so far?
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