Three Moves Ahead 588: The Great War: Western Front

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week, Len and Ian welcome military historian Brett Devereaux back to the show to talk about The Great War: Western Front. We discuss what it gets right and what it gets wrong about the trenches, artillery bombardments, and innovative tactics that eventually broke the stalemate. But at the end of the day, does the Western Front of World War I just suck as a setting for a strategy game?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host for this week,
0:05.5	joined by our good friend Tapp Tapp's Ian Boudreau.
0:09.7	Hello, everybody. Or should I say Twitter user Ian Boudreau as your Twitter user?
0:15.7	Cited by who?
0:16.8	Bruttle. What was this? Who cited you as Twitter user?
0:21.2	This is a story that was on attack of the fanboy.
0:24.6	Oh, okay.
0:25.6	Gotcha.
0:26.2	Resident Evil 4.
0:27.7	There you are.
0:29.3	And we're joined once again by UNC Chapel Hills, Dr. Brett Devereaux.
0:35.3	Great to be here.
0:36.6	Also, NC states, Brett Devereaux at the moment.
0:39.9	NC State.
0:41.0	Okay.
0:42.1	When did, when did you make this move over?
0:45.9	I just, I'm teaching for NC State this semester.
0:48.3	I mean, this is the joy of early career academic is that you're like, like the medieval
0:53.9	journeymen of old. You're like a vagabond
0:56.3	that drips from one institution to the next um sell sword yes there you go sell historian
1:04.3	there we go sell historian brett devro um yeah we're talking about the great war Front, which is an RTS that just came out a little bit ago about World War I.
1:17.0	And Brett, this is really kind of in your wheelhouse, right?
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