Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I am your host, and I am here

with our friend, John Bolding. Howdy. And with Ian Boudreau.

Hey, everybody. And with our recurring special guest slash ancient history consultant, Dr. Brett Devereaux.

So we take Omnis.

And we are here to discuss the early access release of Manor Lords, a medieval city builder

from Slavic Magic and Hooded Horse Publishing.

Slavic Magic, which is technically one person, but this game was not made exclusively by one person.

I think that's an important distinction because I see that people keep throwing that around,

but there's a lot of asset store and contractor stuff in here, too.

But the core of the game was developed by one person, which is pretty impressive.

John, do you want to give us your perspective on what the hell is Manor Lords?

Manor Lords is a city, it's a city building game right it's a yes so wait it's survival survival city

builder it's not crusader kings it's not total war it's not it is absolutely 100% not crusader

king there is no crusader king there is Mary a crusader king to be found. And it is 97% not total war.

Yes. Yeah. It is very much a town builder, a city builder, wherein you are a sort of a slightly timeless, not quite placed in a century medieval lord of some kind,

who is in charge of your little territory and wants to expand your little plot of land

into other nearby little plots of land. And you do this by building up a,

you know, fake, relatively complex little local medieval economy to the point where you can

support to buy mercenaries and equip your local levy to fend off raiders and other lords and also to press your own claims on

nearby territory.

And to do that, you know, you've got to get in good with the local authorities or what have

you and bribe the church with enough food that they're like, oh, yeah, I mean, this is the

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