Three Moves Ahead 590: Wartales

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rowan, Nerium, and Luke set off into the fantasy landscape of Wartales to give a glimpse at one of the most robust tactical management games we've seen in a while. They discuss how it's a counterpoint to – and possibly even a commentary on – Battle Brothers in a couple of interesting ways. You'll also hear perspectives from both of its world scaling settings, to help you decide if you'd rather have everything automatically scale to your current party, or tackle the more dangerous, "MMO-style" version where each region comes with a set level and may be deadlier than you're ready for.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, welcome to three moves ahead. I am your captain tonight, Rowan Kaiser. I am joined today by a largely
0:07.2	competent band of Levels 3 and 4 mercenaries, including the emissary from Katakou, like Luke Plunkett.
0:15.5	Hello, everybody. And waiting at the end for someone to hire them we have neream strong hi actually somebody figured
0:25.7	out where i've been hired at or no wait that's a weird sentence to say i have been hired uh i work
0:32.0	at digital extremes now uh in a couple of weeks here i'll be starting what we're getting we're
0:36.1	getting an unveiling here.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Oh, yeah, to you.
0:44.7	Yeah, I tweeted about it yesterday and then lost track of everything because my cat escaped while I was announcing it.
0:47.6	My door blew open and my cat escaped and I was chasing around the neighborhood.
0:51.7	So can't have something good without something bad.
0:54.2	But yes, I announced I'm the new content marketing manager at Digital Extremes,
0:57.6	makers of Warframe, the upcoming Soul Frame, publishing, Wayfinder.
1:04.5	Yeah.
1:05.1	So Soul Frame is their sole caliber warframe mashup, right?
1:09.3	Yeah.
1:10.0	So there's war edge, and then there's Warframe, their Soul Frame, right? Yeah. So there's like there's war edge and then there's warframe, there's soul frame,
1:14.7	their soul edge.
1:15.5	It's all the same universe, exactly.
1:19.6	So we get gerald of Rivia in war frame.
1:22.0	I got it.
1:23.2	You heard it here first.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Idle Thumbs, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Idle Thumbs and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.