Fog of Warcast

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.