Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, a Strategy Game podcast, which I don't usually say. I guess every episode is somebody's first episode. So maybe I should be saying what the hell this show is at the beginning of the show. I am Glenn. I'm your host, and I am joined today by Ascended Champion, John Bolding.

Hello, hello. And Sorcerer Queen Rowan Kaiser.

That's a good one. I like that. Yeah. And we're here to talk about Age of Wonders

for the latest turn-based customizable fantasy.

I would almost call it like a speed 4X from Triumph Studios.

It's the first proper Age of Wonders game.

When did Age of Wonders 3 come out?

I actually did not look about...

2014 or 2015.

Yeah, so it's almost a decade ago.

Follow up to Planet Fall, which was kind of a sci-fi spin,

which is actually where I jumped into the series.

Did either of you play any of the older Age of Wonders games?

I believe I have played all of them except maybe Shadow Magic.

I'm not sure if I played that one or two or both.

Okay.

I did load up three for a little bit just to see what I was about.

Yeah, there's definitely an interesting arc to this series but we can

we could talk about that a bit later yeah unless you want to do it now let's do it now let's do

it live what is what is the grand arc of the the age ofonders franchise as you see it.

So this series has gone on for about a little over 20 years.

I think the first one came out in 2000 or maybe 99.

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