Latest War games Podcast Episodes
Three Moves Ahead 610: Millennia
Three Moves Ahead - March 31, 2024 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsIt's a full house this week, as Len is joined by Ian Boudreau, Luke Plunkett, Mike Williams, and Ruth Cassidy to perform a bit of an autopsy on Millennia, C Prompt and Paradox's take at a Civ-like historical 4X. We all came away with a bit of a bad taste in our mouths about it, to varying degrees...
Three Moves Ahead 609: Europa Universalis 5 Confirmed?! (Patreon Preview)
Three Moves Ahead - March 23, 2024 20:26 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsThis is a preview of this month's Patreon episode. Check out the extended version at Patreon.com/3ma! Join Len, FatherLorris, and Lord Lambert as we get the NoCB Cast band back together to talk for 3.5 hours about Paradox Tinto's "Project Caesar," which is probably Europa Universalis 5. Okay, le...
Three Moves Ahead 608: Balatro
Three Moves Ahead - March 17, 2024 02:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Jon, and Mike Williams deal out a hand or two of Balatro. It's poker? Sort of? Not really? Poker with boss battles. Poker with booster packs. Poker with tarot cards? We don't hold our opinions close to our chest as we try to apply some kind of taxonomy to this indie surprise hit.
Three Moves Ahead 607: The Strategy Games of Steam Next Fest 2024
Three Moves Ahead - February 25, 2024 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Jon, and Mike Williams sit down to discuss the strategy and strategy-adjacent demos that caught our eyes in Steam Next Fest. Jon played 50 (!) of them, and several were actually good! Also like, where are all the aliens, for real though?
Three Moves Ahead 606: 2024 Look Ahead
Three Moves Ahead - January 31, 2024 21:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Mike Williams, and Nerium Strom take a look at the strategy and strategy-adjacent games coming in 2024, discuss which ones we're most interested in, make some predictions, and discuss the awful state of the industry for workers this year so far.
Three Moves Ahead 605: Warhammer 40,000 Tabletop
Three Moves Ahead - January 20, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsIs this a Winter of Wargaming? Len and Ian are joined by Brian "Chef Lu Bu" Smawley to dig into Warhammer 40K as a setting through the lens of the flagship tabletop miniatures game (particularly the recent 10th Edition). We go over a bit of lore, run through the factions, talk about our favorites...
Three Moves Ahead 604: Mega-Sized 2023 Recap!
Three Moves Ahead - December 31, 2023 03:02 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Rowan, and Ian gather 'round the Yule Log for an extended discussion on the year that was 2023 in strategy games. There was a lot of good and a lot of bad. There were a lot of people talking about "Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year" that didn't really know what they were talking about. We...
Three Moves Ahead 603: Against the Storm 1.0
Three Moves Ahead - December 17, 2023 02:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Rowan, and Luke have gathered around the hearth to revisit Against the Storm for its 1.0 launch. With one veteran and two greenhorns in tow, we discuss how this survival city-builder has changed since Early Access and why it's still so satisfying and refreshing to play.
Three Moves Ahead 602: Patreon Preview: An Interview with Michele Pirovano (dotAGE)
Three Moves Ahead - November 29, 2023 19:27 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsListen to the first five minutes of our November Patreon episode for free, and then hear the full one hour and 15 minute interview by subscribing at Patreon.com/3MA! Len had a chance to chat this month with Michele Pirovano, the (almost) solo developer of dotAGE, a game we all had a great time w...
Three Moves Ahead 601: Victoria 3: One Year Later
Three Moves Ahead - November 26, 2023 04:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen is joined by Dr. Bret Devereaux and Chapel Comic creator Father Lorris to take a look at Victoria 3 one year later. Is this a game that deserves to stand beside Paradox's best yet? And if not, what's it still missing? We play armchair game dev for an hour and a half and unpack the difficulty ...
Three Moves Ahead 600: dotAGE
Three Moves Ahead - November 19, 2023 00:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratings100 episodes ago, we declared that video games are over. Did they ever come back? Also, what's this dotAGE game with authentic medieval chiptune music Overwhelmingly Positive user reviews?
Three Moves Ahead 599: Cities: Skylines 2
Three Moves Ahead - October 28, 2023 18:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen and Jon are joined by Sin Vega and Well There's Your Problem's Justin Roczniak (donoteat01) to discuss Cities: Skylines 2. We have some mixed feelings about this much anticipated sequel, and we don't shy away from pointing out what doesn't work while giving a few nods to what is new and cool....
Three Moves Ahead 598: Total War: Pharaoh
Three Moves Ahead - October 15, 2023 00:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen and Ian are joined by freelance writer Josh Broadwell to discuss Total War: Pharaoh, the first properly historical Total War in an actual age. We dig into the new campaign mechanics, the feel of the battles, and the scope of the map. Has Creative Assembly Sophia come from behind to take the t...
Three Moves Ahead 597: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Three Moves Ahead - September 30, 2023 01:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsThis week, Jon is joined by RPS Editor in Chief Katherine Castle and freelance writer Dominic Tarason to discuss Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. Mimimi's swan song, as we sadly learned after recording, is a follow-up and an evolution to Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Desperados 3, both ...
Three Moves Ahead 596: Baldur's Gate 3
Three Moves Ahead - August 19, 2023 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Jon, and Ian are joined by Brian "Chef Lu Bu" Smawley to delve into Baldur's Gate 3. We discuss what really makes this a CRPG that can be enthusiastically recommended to tactics fans, what our favorite races, classes, and companions have been, and the ridiculous antics we've gotten up to wit...
Three Moves Ahead 595: Aliens: Dark Descent
Three Moves Ahead - July 29, 2023 19:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsRob, Len, and Rowan are in the pipe, five-by-five, to discuss Aliens: Dark Descent. An unconventional squad-based stealth game that brings James Cameron's sci-fi classic to a new (and dare we say better) perspective, we discuss similarities to the likes of Darkest Dungeon and how clever escalatio...
Three Moves Ahead 594: Jagged Alliance 3
Three Moves Ahead - July 22, 2023 04:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsThis week, Len is joined by Sin Vega and Dominic Tarason to discuss Jagged Alliance 3, the long-awaited sequel to one of the greatest tactical games of all time. Did they do a good job of recapturing what made the original so memorable? Is this just another XCOM, or is there more to see here?
Three Moves Ahead 593: Rule the Waves 3
Three Moves Ahead - July 01, 2023 03:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsIt's the... Summer of Wargaming? When a game comes along that's even too obscure and spreadsheet-y for our normal panel, we light the Grognard Beacon. And this week, first-timers Wesley Livesay and Benjamin Magnus answered the call. The subject? Rule the Waves 3. If you love mid-90s PC productivi...
Three Moves Ahead 592: Age of Wonders 4
Three Moves Ahead - June 10, 2023 03:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Rowan, and Jon step through the portal into Age of Wonders 4, the latest fantasy 4X from Triumph and Paradox. We dig deep into the strategic and tactical pacing and why so much of it hits the spot in a world of ultra marathon strategy campaigns. What is so satisfying about its empire customi...
Three Moves Ahead 591: Darkest Dungeon 2
Three Moves Ahead - May 22, 2023 02:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsRowan, Len, and Nerium hitch their wagon to Darkest Dungeon 2 and set in for the long haul on this epic-length episode. We discuss some of the ways this sequel is an improvement over one of 3MA's consensus favorite games of all time (that we somehow never did a dedicated episode on), and several ...
Three Moves Ahead 590: Wartales
Three Moves Ahead - May 14, 2023 02:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsRowan, Nerium, and Luke set off into the fantasy landscape of Wartales to give a glimpse at one of the most robust tactical management games we've seen in a while. They discuss how it's a counterpoint to – and possibly even a commentary on – Battle Brothers in a couple of interesting ways. You'll...
Three Moves Ahead 589: 'Board Game' vs 'Simulation'-style Strategy Games
Three Moves Ahead - April 21, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsIt's an all-star panel as Len and Mike Williams are joined by Mohawk Games' and Idle Thumbs' own Soren Johnson and Paradox Tinto's Johan Andersson to chip away at a tricky target: the different design goals between a more "Board Gamey" strategy game like Civilization and the "Simulationist" breed...
Three Moves Ahead 588: The Great War: Western Front
Three Moves Ahead - April 15, 2023 03:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsThis week, Len and Ian welcome military historian Brett Devereaux back to the show to talk about The Great War: Western Front. We discuss what it gets right and what it gets wrong about the trenches, artillery bombardments, and innovative tactics that eventually broke the stalemate. But at the en...
Three Moves Ahead 587: Terra Nil
Three Moves Ahead - March 31, 2023 04:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsThis week, Rowan teams up with Fanbyte's Mike Williams and Kotaku's Luke Plunkett to discuss Terra Nil, a "city builder in reverse" about restoring the natural ecosystem of a devastated planet. We break down what makes this concept so compelling, feelgood, and relaxing, as well as what it could h...
Three Moves Ahead 586: Industrialization and Snowballing w/ Bret Devereaux
Three Moves Ahead - March 24, 2023 20:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen and Ian are joined once again by our official unofficial historical consultant, UNC Chapel Hill's Dr. Bret Devereaux, to discuss a couple of interrelated topics: Snowballing in strategy games and the process of industrialization. We take a wide-ranging trek through games and history that touc...
Three Moves Ahead 585: Phantom Brigade
Three Moves Ahead - March 11, 2023 00:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsWe have a packed panel this week as Jon is joined by Fanbyte's Mike Williams and Nerium Strom, Waypoint's Renata Price, and Freehold Games' Brian Bucklew to hop into the cockpit on Phantom Brigade. This is far from the first turn-based mech game we've talked about, so why were there so many peopl...
Three Moves Ahead 584: Company of Heroes 3
Three Moves Ahead - February 25, 2023 22:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsRob and Ian are joined by Kotaku's Luke Plunkett to dig in to Company of Heroes 3. The long-awaited World War II RTS left us with mixed feelings, between a dynamic campaign that just doesn't really work and some of the best battle maps the series has ever seen. So how does it all stack up when th...
Three Moves Ahead 583: Religion Revisited
Three Moves Ahead - February 18, 2023 02:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Jon, and Ian kick off what is to be an ongoing series revisiting some big ideas in strategy games that we haven't covered since Ye Olde Podcast Days of Yore. This time around, we're taking a fresh look at religion, which we last gave its own show waaay back in 2009. How have strategy games c...
Three Moves Ahead 582: Europa Universalis IV - Anbennar
Three Moves Ahead - January 28, 2023 03:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsIt's a NoCBcast semi-reunion as Len is joined by Lambert (https://www.youtube.com/Lambert2191) and Father Lorris (https://www.chapelcomic.com/) to discuss Anbennar, our favorite Europa Universalis IV total conversion mod. Have you ever wondered how elite elven archers would fare against 18th Cent...
Three Moves Ahead 581: A Look Ahead to 2023
Three Moves Ahead - January 21, 2023 03:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 446 ratingsLen, Rowan, and Mike Gillis take peek ahead at the roster of strategy games that are maybe, probably, or definitely coming out (or coming out of Early Access) in 2023. We also take an aside for some informed speculation on what some suspiciously quiet heavy-hitters like Total War and Civilization...
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