Three Moves Ahead 610: Millennia

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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It's a full house this week, as Len is joined by Ian Boudreau, Luke Plunkett, Mike Williams, and Ruth Cassidy to perform a bit of an autopsy on Millennia, C Prompt and Paradox's take at a Civ-like historical 4X. We all came away with a bit of a bad taste in our mouths about it, to varying degrees, and we spend a fair bit of time trying to explain why – and set aside some time to talk about what we did like.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Len. I am your host, and I am joined this week by Aftermaths Luke Plunkett.
0:10.1	Good morning, everybody.
0:12.3	By our friend, freelance writer Ian Boudreau.
0:16.2	Hey, everybody.
0:17.6	And our friend Mike Williams.
0:20.2	Hello, hello. And our special guest for. Hello, hello.
0:21.8	And our special guest for this week, freelance writer, Ruth Cassidy.
0:26.3	Good evening.
0:28.5	And we have a full panel this week to discuss millennia, the recent people got mad at me for calling it a sieve-like
0:38.5	when I feel like that's a pretty obvious
0:40.8	point of comparison.
0:44.5	But it's a civil...
0:45.6	It's a historical 4-X.
0:47.2	It's a sieve-like from C-prompt games
0:49.6	and Paradox Interactive.
0:53.0	That... I think, suffice to say we had some strong feelings about across the board,
1:02.4	probably.
1:03.0	It sucks.
1:03.9	It's okay to say.
1:05.0	It's okay to lead with that, I think.
1:06.5	It sucks.
1:07.7	I was trying to rank, like, where we are in terms of our negativity. I think Luke
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