Three Moves Ahead 61: Imperialism

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Troy, Tom and Bruce look at the classic Frog City/SSI games Imperialism and Imperialism 2. What makes this series one of the greatest grand strategy experiences of all time? Can a game this difficult and time intensive be made again? Bruce has a theory, Tom keeps calling Colonization the wrong name, and Troy is focused on diplomacy. Bruce’s Revisionist History on Imperialism Troy’s essay on Imperialism’s maps Tom vs Bruce: Imperialism 2

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0:00.0	I'm here.
0:00.8	You're doing what?
0:02.9	I'm looking to log out.
0:04.0	I had to go back to Vindicator's Rest, which is where the guy is that's going to give me credit for killing the mutated tangler and the enraged ravager.
0:13.2	That's crazy.
0:14.6	Yeah, Vindicators Rest.
0:16.8	Wait, so mutated tanglers and enraged ravishers are lying together?
0:23.2	That's just, that's weird.
0:25.0	It's like the lion and the lamb, dude.
0:26.8	It's chaos.
0:28.5	All right.
0:29.3	I'm going to back up and quit out of that, and I'm ready to go.
0:33.1	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:38.2	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:40.1	And with me today are two of, well, your favorite panelists and mine.
0:44.9	Freelians writer Tom Chick.
0:46.5	Can I get anyone a coffee? Dang it.
0:50.3	Did they have good coffee in Hawaii?
0:53.2	How do you know I was in Hawaii?
0:54.9	That's confidential.
0:57.6	Everybody knows you're in Hawaii.
0:58.7	Actually, Hawaii does have Kona coffee, which I'm not terribly fond of.
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