Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene. Today, we are once again

returning to Company of Heroes Three, and we are once again joined by Matt Phillip, lead gameplay

designer and Will Ward Senior Designer. Matt and Will, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having us

again. Hello. So you just unveiled the Africa Corps and the concept for your North African campaign, but just to set the table for our listeners a bit, can you all talk through what your vision is for North Africa for that campaign and then what you're kind of doing with the Africa Corps in terms of faction design.

Yeah.

So, I mean, this all comes back to selecting the Mediterranean theater way back in the day with kind of our working alongside our players.

And once we had identified that the Mediterranean was going to be the place that we were

going to take this next game, we set our eyes to Italy first. But that to us just wasn't enough.

And we wanted to, I think one of our biggest pillars that we established was environmental diversity.

We really wanted to bring some new environments to our game. And we think that that in itself is a big piece to the puzzle.

So that's where we kind of like, wait a second,

why don't we wrap this together with the North African theater?

And that was always something that was highly desired from our fans,

especially I think it's been maybe one of the most requested factions

to see like the Africa Corps in action.

So kind of, yeah, that was kind of the driving points to it all.

And then in terms of how it's going to play out, yeah, what we have is we actually have the North African, what we're calling it is a cop, an operation, which is actually going to be a linear, linear campaign,

a little bit different than actually the dynamic campaign map campaign that's going to take place in Italy.

So that's a bit of the starting information on that.

And in terms of, so, you know, to pry a little bit, does that mean like the game will have multiple operations?

Are you seeing this as a, like, uh, way to work in a few different, like more traditional company,

of pure style of campaigns, uh, in alongside the dynamic campaign? Or is, uh, the North African operation going to serve as more of a

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