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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.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 8m
Three Moves Ahead 658: Shadowstone Developer Interview
Len sits down with Secret Door's Shane and Alan Dabiri, two Blizzard veterans currently working on tactical RPG Sunderfolk and its roguelike sibling, Shadowstone. We reminisce about the golden age of the RTS and dive deep into designing abilities and enemies and managing randomness in run-based tactics games.
- 2 weeks ago1h 6m
Three Moves Ahead 657: Total War Warhammer: Lords of the End Times
Len and long-lost prodigal cohost Ian gird themselves for the apocalypse in Total War Warhammer: Lords of the End Times. We discuss the new factions, the new crisis mechanics, and how not even a walking god of death is scarier than what happens when you outsource your Shogun 2 remaster to the lowest bidder.
- Sep 29, 20261h 3m
Three Moves Ahead 656: Endless Legend 2 Interview
Len sits down with Endless Legend 2 game director Derek Paxton and game designer Julien Gueguen to talk about the 1.0 release of Endless Legend 2, how 4X devs iterate on feedback, and how they managed to put out 60 major updates in the course of a year.
- Sep 16, 20261h 18m
Three Moves Ahead 655: Star Wars Zero Company
SPOILER ADVISORY: This episode contains character spoilers throughout (if you don't want to be spoiled on which classic Star Wars archetypes can be recruited, or which movie characters make cameos). PLOT SPOILERS for the big mid-game time skip begin at 48:05 and conclude at 1:14:09. Jon and Luke are joined by PC Gamer's Ted Litchfield to discuss Star Wars Zero Company, a tactics game in a galaxy far, far away from several of the developers of NuXCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns. We discuss our favorite characters, why you should never give firearms to an astromech droid, and all of the other things that make this one of the best Star Wars games in a parsec.
- Aug 29, 20261h 6m
Three Moves Ahead 654: Summer Catch-Up 2026
Len and Nerium are joined once again by special guest Diana to discuss a lot of the smaller games we played this summer that didn't make it into a full episode, our varying levels of EU5 addiction, and mechsploitation. Games Discussed: Sovereign Tower Dispatch Suzerain EU5 Civ 7 Test of Time Mortal Shell II Elden Ring: The Convergence Big Walk The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily Twisted Tower Endacopia Openfront.io
- Aug 1, 20261h 5m
Three Moves Ahead 653: Corsair Cove
Len, Jon, and Fraser set sail with Corsair Cove, a pirate city-builder with a reckless disregard for building codes. We discuss our different buccaneer building styles, the card- and dice-based ship combat, and try to answer the eternal question: what DO you do with a drunken sailor?
- Jul 17, 20261h 13m
Three Moves Ahead 652: ZeroSpace Early Access Interview
Len sits down with Game Director Marv Gouw and Consulting Art Director (and Relic co-founder) J. Aaron Kambeitz to talk about ZeroSpace, a new RTS inspired by the greats of the genre with BioWare-style cutscenes and story decisions. We dig into the odd place RTSes find themselves in the industry right now, how the "Homeworld look" relates to typefaces, and how the changes in the games industry today echo those the film industry went through decades ago.
- Jun 12, 20261h 0m
Three Moves Ahead 651: Age of Empires II in 2026 feat. Hera
Len and DM are joined by the current Age of Empires II world champion, Hera, to discuss the state of the game in 2026. We try to explain its longevity, examine what it takes to be a top-level esports player, and discuss Hera's streamer invitational tournament, The King's Gauntlet.
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