Three Moves Ahead 643: 2025 Catch-Up

Three Moves Ahead

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

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Len, Nerium, and Mike kick back to highlight some of our favorite strategy and non-strategy games of 2025 that didn't make it to a full episode. There were how many Roman city-builders this year? And yes, sports management games do count as strategy. Even that one. Games discussed: Nova Roma Look Outside Lisa the Painful Total War Warhammer: Tides of Torment Skin Deep Ambrosia Sky Demonschool Phantom Brigade Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream Crusader Kings 3: All Under Heaven Mount & Blade 2: War Sails Cities Skylines 2 Victoria 3: Iberian Twilight Death Howl Heroes of Might & Magic: The Olden Era The Case of the Golden Idol Enigma Trilogy

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Lynn. I'm your host and I am joined this week by Neream Strom.
0:08.5	Hello. I'm back again. And as you can probably tell, that means it's time to talk about more games that aren't really strategy games.
0:16.2	Well, last time, we also have Mike Williams. Oh, I'm an also now.
0:22.3	I see how it is.
0:24.3	I was going to say, last time that we did this,
0:29.0	Mike was the one trying to like ride heard and keep us on topic for strategy games.
0:34.7	And so I thought I would introduce you before I brought that up.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.5	It is true.
0:41.9	The last time we did this,
0:43.5	everyone was bringing in games that were not strategy,
0:46.2	which, again, is fine.
0:48.1	We expand a little bit,
0:50.4	but I make sure to bring strategy or simulation related games to the table.
0:58.0	I did mostly focus on strategy stuff for the little short list I made.
1:04.0	But this is going to be kind of our 2025 wrap-up, catch-up little stuff we played that didn't have time to do a full episode
1:13.3	or just didn't have the panel to do a full episode.
1:16.1	And we kind of wanted to mention it anyway, since we're kind of at the end of the year.
1:21.2	And we're going to be coming up with our own end of the year strategy tactics games of the year lists very shortly.
1:33.1	Yeah, Mike, did you want to start?
1:37.1	I'll start with a light one that I just played based on Luke Pl, Luke Plunkett's, say-so.
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