Manor Lords, the most wish listed game on Steam is out! In today's episode of Single Malt Strategy, our hosts The Historical Gamer (Isn't Sure Why People Want Homes), and Tortuga Power (Treehouse Dweller) welcome back our reoccurring cohosts, Wolfpack 345 (Sod Dwelling Mud Lover), and Finnish Jager (Eminem's Friend), to discuss one of our most anticipated games of all of 2024 and this new Medieval City Builder by podcast favorite, publisher Hooded Horse.  Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Loves Making Lists) and Tortuga Power (Mr. City Builder) welcome back Wolfpack345 (Depressing Games Lover) and Finnish Jager (4X Specialist) to discuss their most anticipated games of 2024, Just 1/6th of the way through 2024. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfpack345live Check out Finnish Jager’s YouTube Channel:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Yes I Like That!) and Tortuga Power (I’m not Sure I Like it) welcome back regular guests Wolfpack345 (Is This a Strategy Game?) and Finnish Jager (Wannabe Restaurant Owner) to discuss their favorite games of 2023, and to share their Top 3 strategy (mostly) games of 2023. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Mr. Soundbite) and Tortuga Power (Mr. Give Up Control) welcome our regular guests Wolfpack345 (Imposter Host) and Finnish Jager (former Charcoal Cheetah) to discuss what we've been up to since our last episode, and some rumored chaos at Creative Assembly. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfpack345live Check out Finnish...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Wont Self-Incriminate) and Tortuga Power (The Man With The Lists) welcome special guests Wolfpack345 (Mr. Warcrime) and Charcoal Cheetah (Hello Ladies) to discuss their favorite games which cover the Eastern Front in World War II, what works, what doesn’t, and why. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfpack345live Check...

On today's episode of SMS, the Historical Gamer (Mr. UI) and Tortuga Power (Sr. Modder) welcome special guest, Benjamin Magnus, from Paradox Interactive and Benjamin Magnus Gaming, In today's episode our hosts discuss the recently released Rule the Waves 3, a game with tremendous bones and potential, but kneecapped at times by an antiquated UI. Check out Ben's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/benjamin_magnus Ben's YouTube Channel:...

On today's episode of SMS, the Historical Gamer (Mr. Quality Control) and Tortuga Power (Do Devs Play Their Own Games?) welcome another special guest, Alekius, from the Alekius Gaming, YouTube channel to discuss the topic of Early Access, and if its getting better, worse, and what the future may bring. Check out Alekius’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@alekius3329 Listen to the show on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/single-malt-strategy/id1148480371 Spotify:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (The Man With A Long List) and Tortuga Power (The Man Who Hates Gaming) welcome special guest Wolfpack345 (DCS Cheater) to discuss the year ahead, and what we're looking forward to most in 2023. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfpack345live Listen to the show on: Apple:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Mr: Were there any good games?) and TortugaPowered (Mr: Expectation Managment) welcome special guest DasTactic (Mr: Everything's Awesome!) to discuss a very busy year in strategy games, and pick their top strategy games of 2022. Check out DasTactic’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DasTactic/about Check out DasTactic’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/dastactic Distant Worlds II:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer and TortugaPowered welcome special guest BLXZ to discuss the new Paradox Interactive game, Victoria 3. Listen as the crew discuss what works, what doesn't work, and what we'd like to see as Victoria 3 continues to evolve. Thanks to BLXZ for coming on today's episode, it was a pleasure to have him. Thumbnail Made by Finnish Jager Victoria 3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/ Listen to the show on: Apple:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer and TortugaPower welcome special guest Finnish Jager to discuss the huge topic of Naval Wargames. Listen as the crew discuss what works in naval wargames, what doesn't work, and what games they're playing. Thanks to Finnish Jager for coming on today's episode, it was a pleasure to have him. Follow Finnish on his Twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/charcoal_cheetah Thumbnail Made by Finnish Jager War on the Sea:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (Everything is Management) and TortugaPowered (He's Got Lists!) welcome special guest Finnish Jager (Nothing to Plug) to discuss the huge topic of Strategy Games. Listen as the crew discuss what is, what isn't (nothing?) and what could be a management game, and why perhaps, all strategy games are management games. Thanks to Finnish Jager for coming on today's episode, it was a pleasure to have him. Thumbnail Made by Finnish Jager Kapital:...

On today's episode of SMS, The Historical Gamer (The Nintendo Fanboy) and TortugaPowered (The Space Opera-ist) welcome special guest DasTactic (4X Mavin) to discuss the newly released 4X game, Distant Worlds II. Here how this massive epic compares to its predecessor as well as competitors in the space like Paradox Interactive’s Stellaris. Check out DasTactic’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out DasTactic’s Twitch Channel:...

On today's episode of SMS, Matt (The Historical Gamer) and Eric (Tortuga Power) welcome special guest Wolfpack345 (Matt) to discuss the year that was 2021 and our top strategy games of 2022 while also taking a look ahead at 2022 and discussing which games we're most excited about in 2022. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2rH9OfjaRlRdbONXlRtKQ Check out Wolfpack’s Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfpack3451 Get War on the Sea Here:...

On today's episode of SMS, Matt (The Historical Gamer) and Eric (Tortuga Power) welcome back special guest, Yooper to discuss the newly announced Arms Trade Tycoon. The guys love the Demo but have some reservations about the Kickstarter and are a bit confused about a kickstarter for the game when they recently announced a publishing deal with Microprose. Check out Yooper's work here: https://weaponsrelease.com Get/Wishlist Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks here:...

On today's episode of SMS, Matt (The Historical Gamer) and Eric (Tortuga Power) welcome special guest Wolfpack345 (Matt) to discuss the game War on the Sea, a World War II, strategy and wargame that takes place in the South Pacific in 1942 and is made by Cold Waters developer, Killerfish Games. War on the Sea is a game that all the developers have played a lot, and like, but also a game they all have major issues and reservations with. Check out Wolfpack’s YouTube Channel:...

On today's episode of SMS, Matt (The Historical Gamer) and Eric (Tortuga Power) welcome special guest Yooper (Weapons Release) to discuss the recent aquisition by Stillfront Group of the Strategy and Wargaming developer, Gamelabs. Gamelabs has made several highly successful and approachable wargames, from the Ultimate General series to the Ultimate Admiral series, what does their acquisition by Stillfront (a company mostly known for mobile and free to play games) mean for the future of good...

The Single Malt Strategy Podcast is back! Matt (The Historical Gamer) and Eric (Tortuga Power) are joined by Amiral (Task Force Admiral), Jo (Second Front), and Nils (Sea Power) to discuss their upcoming games and the rebirth of the Strategy & Simulation icon, Microprose. Join us for the latest episode of the Single Malt Strategy Podcast and check out some exclusive gameplay from these upcoming games. The links for Developers Games who were interviewed: Task Force Admiral:...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss some games they've been playing lately while also diving into Distant Worlds II, an upcoming 4X Space Strategy game, which recently revealed the first gameplay footage of this much anticipated and upcoming game. Here are the links for games discussed: Distant Worlds 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1531540/Distant_Worlds_2/ Order of Battle World War II :...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss their top most anticipated strategy and wargames of 2021. Tune in to hear them discuss the games they're looking forward to most this year. Here are the links for games discussed: War in the East II: https://www.matrixgames.com/game/gary-grigsbys-war-in-the-east-2 Distant Worlds 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1531540/Distant_Worlds_2/ Starship Troopers - Terran Command:...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss their top strategy and wargames of 2020. Tune in to hear them discuss the best games of 2020. Here are the links for games discussed: ICBM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1178220/ICBM/ Suzerain: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207650/Suzerain/ Battle Star Gallactica: https://store.steampowered.com/app/544610/Battlestar_Galactica_Deadlock/ Shadow Empire:...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss game design and the importance of UI in Wargames as well as ICBM, a new spiritual successor to the classic strategy nuclear war game, Defcon. Jean, Matt, and Erik all seem eager to nuke the world, to the tune of the USSR National Anthem. Here are the links for games discussed: ICBM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1178220/ICBM/ Defcon:...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss Crusader Kings II, the newest game out by Paradox Development Studios and published by Paradox Interactive. Matt asks why Jean isn’t eating more prisoners while Jean gushes at the look and feel of the updated Crusader Kings game, and muses on seizing the King of France. Here are the links for games discussed: Crusader Kings III:...

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss Combat Mission Shock Force 2, which is the first game of the Battlefront.com library to hit Steam. The gang discusses the history of this long running series as well as their opinions regarding gameplay. They finish up the podcast discussing what they feel would make this game the perfect game. Here are the links for games discussed: Grand Tactician The Civil War 1861-1865:...