Three Moves Ahead

Len Hafer, Jon Bolding, Fraser Brown, Luke Kemp

Booking Overview

This is a strategy- and war-games panel show focused on game criticism, design, and the strategy-gaming scene, with occasional external developers, journalists, and competitive players joining the regular hosts. Credible pitches include strategy-game designers and directors, esports champions, game-industry executives, and specialist games journalists; booking difficulty is medium because the show accepts relevant industry guests but maintains a focused, expert-oriented format.

Metrics

Episodes: 657

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 7.8k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

questions@idlethumbs.net

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Host

Len Hafer - Games journalist and podcast host covering strategy games, game design, and the wider games industry.

Jon Bolding - Games journalist and commentator with a focus on strategy games and the wider PC gaming industry.

Fraser Brown - Games journalist covering PC games, strategy titles, and game-industry developments.

Luke Kemp - Games journalist and commentator covering strategy and tactics games.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Strategy-game developers, game directors, established designers, specialist games journalists, esports champions, and other recognized experts with direct experience in strategy or war games.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of notable strategy-game projects, Recognition as a top-level competitive player or champion, Senior roles at established game studios, Professional games journalism focused on strategy or PC gaming

Recent Guest Discussions

Ted Litchfield - Star Wars Zero Company, Tactics-game Design, Characters, And The Game's Relationship To Earlier Strategy Titles.

J. Aaron Kambeitz - Zerospace's Art Direction, RTS Design, The Homeworld Visual Style, And Changes In The Games Industry.

Marv Gouw - Zerospace, The Current State Of Real-time Strategy Games, Narrative Design, And The Game's Cinematic Influences.

Recent Topics

Gaming, Strategy Games, War Games, Game Design, Esports

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 655: Star Wars Zero Company

September 16, 2026

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...

Three Moves Ahead 654: Summer Catch-Up 2026

August 29, 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

Three Moves Ahead 653: Corsair Cove

August 01, 2026

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?

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