Three Moves Ahead

A podcast about strategy & war games

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Three Moves Ahead is the leading strategy game themed podcast on the internet. Every week a panel of knowledgeable gamers with strong opinions meets to talk about the strategy and war games of the day, design issues and games in the wider world.

Weekly, publishes Wednesdays.

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Episode 488:
The Decade in Retrospect

January 20, 2020 Rob, T.J., Rowan, and Fraser gather to consider the last ten years in strategy games. There is a stark division about what happened to the RTS, as well as how the concept of a game being "finished" mostly disappeared. Then Rob tries to wrap up the show and it goes for another hour as everyone tries to choose their favorite genre game from the last ten years.

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Episode 487:
Best of 2019

Episode 486:
Lion in Winter

Episode 485:
Phoenix Point

January 9, 2020 Rowan, T.J., Jon, and Rob look back at 2019 and the games that most delighted or dismayed them.

Games of 2019

December 29, 2019 It's Christmas at the Plantagenets as Rob and Troy watch the superb Lion in Winter and the less superb Becket. What do these movies have to say about history and politics, and is any of it related to historical fact? How good is Hepburn? What is O'Toole doing across these two films?

The Lion in Winter, Becket

December 20, 2019 Jon and Rob welcome back Paul Dean to discuss Julian Gollop's and Snapshot Games' Phoenix Point, which tries to blend some of the old-school systemic realism of the original X-COM games with the ease of play of newer tactics games. It's all going well until the gang realize the AI plays like a zombie... and this isn't a zombie game.

Phoenix Point

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