Three Moves Ahead 641: Europa Universalis 5

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Len, Rowan, and Jon are at last granted the liberty to speak on their experiences with Europa Universalis 5, Paradox's latest and most ambitious grand strategy game. Is it actually good? Is it even possible to evaluate it in a that straightforward of a way at this point? And why has it turned Rowan into The Joker?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to three moves ahead, a podcast ostensibly about strategy games.
0:07.8	I am Lynn, I am your host, I am joined today by John Bolding.
0:12.3	Howdy, everybody.
0:13.9	And by Rowan Kaiser.
0:15.8	When you say ostensibly about strategy games, you mean we're doing a Hades 2 show, right?
0:20.5	Because that's what I'm prepared for.
0:22.7	Yes, that's exactly what this episode is about.
0:26.4	Why don't you run us through your thoughts on the thematic...
0:31.9	Disaster?
0:32.7	...gallings of Hades 2.
0:36.5	No, we're here to talk about Little little game you might have heard of from a very small
0:43.8	indie studio.
0:44.7	Hasn't gotten a lot of buzz around our neck of the woods, as far as I can tell, Europa
0:51.8	Universalist 5, which is due to be out.
0:57.5	I don't even know.
0:58.5	I'm just going into this half-clock like always.
1:01.8	And the embargo is tomorrow?
1:04.5	Yeah, the review embargo.
1:06.0	This will be going up.
1:07.0	Oh, it's November 4th is when it's out.
1:08.8	The review embargo is the 31st, which is when this episode will be going up.
1:12.3	All right.
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