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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 96: Shafer, Patches, Holiday Wishes

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2010

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On the night before the day before Christmas, Troy and Rob and Julian sit down to talk about Jon Shafer leaving Firaxis, mega patches for turn based games Civ 5 and Elemental and then we wrap up with seasonal reflections including New Year's resolutions for the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

0:06.9

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and you are listening to episode number 96, and I got the number right this time.

0:14.4

With me today is my regular panel on this Christmas show.

0:18.9

We have freelance writer Julian Murdoch.

0:21.1

96. That's a long time talking to you guys.

0:26.3

Well, you've missed a few.

0:27.9

A few, a few.

0:30.4

And freelance writer Rob Zakeney.

0:32.5

Good evening.

0:35.0

Rob, you're coming to us from the wilds of Wisconsin.

0:38.8

No, from the West Berbs of Chicago.

0:43.0

West Berbs of Chicago.

0:44.4

Yes.

0:45.6

And even worse than Wisconsin.

0:49.4

Send your hate mail to...

0:51.7

Yes.

0:53.5

Today we're going to pretty much not a real topic show.

0:56.9

Everyone's very busy.

0:58.2

We have certainly topics for the next month all lined up.

1:01.6

We're just going to talk about some of the stuff that's happening in the strategy world.

1:04.4

And if we have time, we'll throw in a little bit of personal stuff at the end.

1:08.8

But it's been a pretty big week for strategy gaming.

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