Three Moves Ahead 62: Gettysburg Scourge of War

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Another wargame show! Troy, Julian and Rob are joined by NorbSoft’s Norb Timpko and Jim Weaver to talk about Gettysburg: Scourge of War. Learn more than you ever wanted to know about how to make a civil war game. Why is the AI so recalcitrant? What are the lessons of leadership here? How do you make a map like this? And where do history and gameplay collide when the AI hasn’t read the books you have? Scourge of War: Gettysburg The Maps of Gettysburg : An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – July 13, 1863 Buy Take Command 2nd Manassas

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:05.4	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two of my regular panelists, freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:12.1	I'm back after like three weeks away.
0:14.9	It feels so good to be home.
0:16.8	And you missed Bruce in both of them.
0:19.2	I know. It was totally intentional, I'm sure.
0:22.4	Yeah, well, Bruce is dodging you.
0:24.9	And freelance writer Rob Zakene.
0:27.1	Hey, everybody.
0:29.1	With us today, we have two very special guests from Norbsoft to talk about their real-time Civil War game, strategy game.
0:41.5	Gettysburg Scourge of War, we have Norb Timcoe.
0:45.3	Hello, everybody. How are you doing?
0:47.3	And lead designer Jim Weaver.
0:49.5	Evening, all.
0:50.9	Now, you guys are pretty close to my neck of the woods.
0:53.9	Yeah, you're right down to University of Maryland
0:56.1	I'm up in Jersey
0:57.3	And I'm just out in the wilds of Gatorsburg
1:01.0	Gatorsburg like a 40 minute drive for me
1:03.3	That's pretty cool
1:04.0	Very handy, very convenient
1:05.8	Much closer than Julia
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