Fog of Warcast

The concluding episode on Total War, where we investigate and talk through the impact of TW: Warhammer on the franchise!

Your hosts, Andreas, Johan and Magnus have a spirited conversation about Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila and Thrones of Britannia, and finally wrestles with the questions: what is best, Hunnic Horde mechanics or a huge map of the British Isles.

This is it! We are kicking of our Total War episodes with a retrospective. An much like the game themselves the episodes turned out a bit longer than expected. So, what was Total War like back in the olden days? Before hero units and detailed graphics? We talk about the games, the mechanics, the settings, the design choices and what was improved, forgotten or outright abandoned.

We talk about the most expected strategy games announced during the summer - and why they all seem to be sequels!

Johan and Magnus talk about the excellent game Steel Division. A game for people deeply interested in the minutia of the battlefield. Andreas is the innocent bystander asking naive questions.

In this episode Johan and Andreas invite Pontus to talk about one of the game series which have shaped us as strategy gamers, role players and geeks in general!

In this episode we discuss the merits and flaws of two of the major "styles" of strategy games:  real time strategy games and turn based strategy games. Which do you prefer? Is there something we are missing? Leave a comment! Also, we apologise for the sound issues early on in the episode, we will get wise to them and fix them a few minutes in!

This weekend we will be casting a game of Hearts of Iron 4 with Hygge Gaming https://www.youtube.com/@hyggegaming  In this Episode your hosts invited Lucas, a veteran stream- and studio technician who has rigged and supervised the casting of many a game. We talk about the upcoming match and well as the challenges and tricks of the trade when casting a 8-10 hour long game!

Magnus, Johan and Andreas mix work and play by talking about politics, policies and diplomacy in strategy games. Since war is just politics by other means, or perhaps the other way around, it is very common for strategy games to have a diplomatic or political route to victory. This has of course caused a lot of consternation, annoyance and exploits. In this episode we discuss politics, policies and diplomacy done right, wrong or perhaps just as an afterthought.

We talk about city building! Most strategy games have a component of city buildning. But how does it impact the game?How can it be improved? When should it not be done at all?

Johan and Andreas played Hearts of Iron 4 this weekend. In the last episode we weont over Andreas Poland build and Johan coached him on how to play it. Today we talk a little bit about the game, and a lot about air/spy Poland!

Andreas and Johan will be playing Hearts of Iron this Sunday (june 1:e) with Hygge Gaming (Hygge Gaming on Youtube, Hyggehofgaming on Twitch). Johan is a veteran Poland player, Andreas is very much not. So in this episode Johan coaches Andreas on how to run the very historically accurate Poland Air-build.

We court controversy! In this episode we talk about how strategy games have changed over the years. Evolution? Devolution? And of course: what is our stance on new remakes of old games!

In this episode our daring hosts venture out on the maps of strategy games! We talk about minimaps, overworlds, battle maps, realistic satelite style terrain and stylized drawn maps. Can you ford that river? Should you be able to? How thick is a sufficiently thick forest? We have ansvers. Sort of.

In this episode the Fog of Warcast hosts attempts to provide an introduction to themselves, the podcast and strategy gaming by listing the best strategy games, the worst strategy games and the weirdest strategy games.

We start of this podcast with controversy! Join us as we discuss what a strategy game actually is, and when a game stops being a strategy game.