Three Moves Ahead 645: 2026 Look Ahead

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Len and Brian "Chef Lu Bu" Smawley are joined by friend of the show Diana to peek into the near distance at the strategy games we're interested in that have announced or probable release dates in 2026. It's going to be another big year for city-builders! Also, is Total War 40K even a good idea? Games discussed: Total War: Warhamer 40,000, Dawn of War 4, Menace, Slay the Spire 2, Nova Roma, Norse: Oath of Blood, DarkSwitch, Battlestar Galactica: Shattered Hopes, Beyond These Stars, SkyRig, SpaceCraft, Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, Star Wars: Zero Company

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0:00.0	recording. Everybody could just talk really quick so I can make sure we have waveforms.
0:05.4	Hello, testing. Check one, two, three, four. Check one, two, three, four. Looks good.
0:15.7	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Lynn. I am your host and we are joined this evening
0:23.2	by our friend Brian Chef Lou Boo Smalley. Hey, well, Scott. How we doing? And we also have a
0:32.1	3MA debut friend of the show, friend of the near. We have Diana here today.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.1	Wonderful to be here.
0:40.9	Do you want to, do you want to introduce, I guess you don't really do like content and stuff,
0:47.0	but your relationship to strategy games, perhaps?
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:53.2	I, but, but, but, I've been playing strategy games for a very, very long time.
0:59.0	I'm really big into Paradox games specifically.
1:02.0	Um, I got into, uh, Europa Universalis in like, uh, sophomore year in college.
1:10.0	And it's kind of been downhill from there.
1:14.9	I've been...
1:15.6	Many such cases.
1:17.4	Yeah, I do art.
1:18.8	I do writing.
1:20.4	I am credited on a game that I won't necessarily be going into, but it's
1:28.8	it has some pretty good reviews on Steam.
1:32.0	This is related at all to the discussion
1:35.0	we had before the show about
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