Three Moves Ahead 99: War in the East

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2011

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Scott Jennings (Lum the Mad) fills in for an ailing Rob as he and Bruce and Troy welcome Joel Billings (2by3 Games) and Erik Rutins (Matrix Games) to talk about what Gary Grigsby's War in the East means for wargame design, scale, realism and detail and marketing of wargames.Pardon some of the sound issues from time to time.

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0:00.0	You were listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:05.8	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and this is episode number 99.
0:10.5	This is The Gretzky Show.
0:12.4	With me today is one of my regular panelists.
0:15.4	We have Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:17.4	Yeah, hello gamers.
0:20.1	So is that Scottish?
0:21.7	I don't know what it is.
0:23.2	It's something that's uniquely about gaming.
0:28.1	No, it's not.
0:30.2	It's uniquely about dorkitude.
0:33.0	Well, that goes hand in hand with gaming, so we're all set.
0:36.2	This is true.
0:38.2	Filling Rob Zakeney's seat, he was supposed to be here tonight, but coming in at the last minute and pinch hitting.
0:44.8	If you've been on the internet since the beginning of the century, you know him as Lum the Mad.
0:50.3	I know him from MC Soft and his amazing MMO blog at brokentoys.org and a man who knows his
0:57.6	Soviet history inside and out, Mr. Scott Jennings.
1:01.5	Everyone needs hobbies.
1:03.9	Thank you for joining us, Scott, on such really short notice.
1:07.6	No problem. I mean, it's nice to talk about something that isn't an MMO, so there you go.
1:12.3	And if the Matrix guys tell me they're making an MMO out of War to East, I'm going to throw a fit.
1:21.1	We have, especially in War in the East, because that is what tonight's show is about.
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