Good. Actually, it's morning where I am, so it feels weird saying good evening.

You're listening to Three Moves Ahead.

I'm you, you're your host for this week, Len Hafer, and I am joined by our good friend, John Bolding.

Howdy, everybody?

And we have a hell of a game to talk about today.

We're talking about Tara Invicta from Povonis Interactive.

This is a lot of the same people who worked on the long war mods for XCOM and XCOM 2.

It's like, where do you even start with this one?

John, what is, what is Tara Invicta to you?

Tara and Victa is a...

Uh...

Case in point.

Yeah.

Terra and Victa is a combination of two things that you don't expect to go together at all.

It is a grand strategy game on Earth about a world where secret and also not so secret conspiracies and alliances

seek to control the human reaction to the arrival of an alien species in our solar system.

And at the same time, it is a game of quite hardcore, hard science fiction, industrialization, and militarization of the solar system in order to meet the same goals, right, in order to react to the alien

presence, but to a degree that does not exist, I've only ever seen before in tabletop

games, frankly.

And very much, like, in a military, like, with a heavy military focus, like, I would say that, like, in a military, like, um, with a heavy military focus, like, I would say that like

the, the industrialization layer has much more in common with hearts of iron than it does

with Victoria.

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