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/UCX2r…

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 …

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:/…

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 Channe…

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. Che…

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://w…

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 Wo…

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/@DasTacti…

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. Thu…

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 Fin…

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 mana…

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…

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.co…

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 Micro…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 discu…

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…

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/Suze…

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…

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 sei…

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…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) give a preview of the Beta Build of this years upcoming Civil War blockbuster game, Grand Tactician The Civil War 1861-1865. The gang gives their initial impressions of a Pre-Early Access build of the game. They discuss the current status of the game, it…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) cover the latest games they’ve been playing. Eric starts the episode discussing the upcoming War in The Eats sequel and how he’s preparing for its release. Matt dives into a Pacific War iPhone & iPad game he discovered and as well as an eastern front gam…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss the games they’ve been playing. Matt starts out the show with his take on the Remastered Command & Conquer while Eric dives into the purchases he made during the Steam Summer Sale. And Jean finishes the episode discussing the recent Panzer Corps …

Here is our introductory episode of our newest show, Developer Dialogue. The reason we are moving the interviews to its own podcast is because were planning to expand them by having you participate in the interview by being able to ask your own questions to your favorite developer. Another key feature were implementing is we are hosting the show LI…

In this special announcement we are formally announcing that our interview segments are branching off into its show called Developer Dialogue. The reason we are moving the interviews to its own podcast is because were planning to expand them by having you participate in the interview by being able to ask your own questions to your favorite develope…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) catch up on the games they’ve been playing during this long pandemic. The episode covers a wealth of game from Nimbatus The Space Drone Constructor, Carrier Battles (Desktop Version), Shadow Empire, Armored Commander II to the latest shocking announcemen…

In this special interview episode Jean (The Strategy Wargamer) & Eric (TortugaPower) had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the Project Director of the recently released Panzer Corps 2, Alexander Shargin. We dived into the history of Panzer Corps, it’s accidental beginnings, and all the way to the recent release of its sequel. We uncoverd …

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss the blockbuster announcement of the return of Microprose, the legendary game company of the 90’s . The episode begins with the gang discussing the games they’ve been playing during the coronavirus quarantine and how it has altered their gaming ha…

In this special interview episode Jean (The Strategy Wargamer) & Eric (TortugaPower) have the amazing opportunity to sit down with the Project Director of Imperator Rome, Peter Nicholson. They dive into his career at Paradox and his path to becoming director of this amazing Roman Grand Strategy game. Afterwards they discuss the challenges the team …

In this special interview episode the gang sits down with the founder of VR Designs, Victor Reijkersz, the developer behind the upcoming 4X strategy game Shadow Empire. The beginning of the episode we dive into their previous line of games like the award winning Decisive Campaigns & Advance Tactics. The core of the episode focuses on their upcoming…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss the latest games they’ve been playing. They dive into the latest Battlestar Galactica Deadlock DLC Ghost Fleet Offensive as well as a few political simulators such as The Political Machine 2020 & The Political Process. The core of the episode fea…

We know we’re a bit late to the party but in this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) reveal their top 3 most anticipated games of 2020. We begin the episode discussing the games we’ve been playing lately and move into our top 3 games. We end the episode with honorable mentions and what we’re drin…

In this episode Jean (Strategy WarGamer), Matt (The Historical Gamer), and Eric (Tortuga Power) discuss their top 3 picks for the best strategy games of 2019. In this episode there were a number of surprise choices, be sure to stay to the end for some honorable mentions. Field of Glory Empires: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011390/Field_of_Gl…

In this episode the gang discusses the shocking and incredible announcement of a new Starship Troopers strategy game. Slitherine and the developer, The Aristocrats, recently unveiled their upcoming Real Time Strategy (RTS) game Starship Troopers Terran Command. Matt, Eric and Jean discuss their reactions to the announcement and first demo of gamepl…

In this episode the gang covers two of the newest released and talked about strategy games. The first is a deluxe and realistic modern military simulator, Command Modern Operations. They finish up the episode discussing one of the most addictive and satisfying logistical World War 2 strategy games, Unity of Command 2. Buy The Games: Command Modern …

In this deluxe episode the gang dives into a whole slew of news and reviews. First Matt (HistoricalGamer) and Eric (TortugaPower) discuss the game they both been waiting for, a game that just released on Early Access, Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts. Followed by another recently released & innovative strategy game, Radio Commander, but the core of th…

In this interview episode, Jean the Strategy Wargamer sits down with the founder of Black Lab Games, Paul Turbett, the developer responsible for the incredible game Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. They discuss how Battlestar Galactica Deadlock came to be, the challenges they faced throughout its development, the recent release of the game on the Nin…

In this episode, the gang catches up on the games they’ve been playing the last few weeks. We also revisit both Axis & Allies 1942 Online as well as Imperator Rome to see how well these games have fared following some big updates. Mashinsky: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/ Headliner NoviNews: https://store.steampowered.com/app/9…

In this episode, Jean the Strategy Wargamer sits down with the producer of the recently released Axis & Allies 1942 Online, Cody Ouimet. Cody and his team at Beamdog were able to bring this legendary board game back to the PC, and provide fans of the game the ability to now play the game whenever and wherever they are. We dive into how the project …

In this episode, Jean the Strategy Wargamer sits down with the producer of the recently released Axis & Allies 1942 Online, Cody Ouimet. Cody and his team at Beamdog were able to bring this legendary board game back to the PC, and provide fans of the game the ability to now play the game whenever and wherever they are. We dive into how the project …

In this episode Matt, Eric and Jean cover the latest release from Slitherine & AGEOD, Field of Glory Empires. This highly anticipated game of 2019 comes with a unique feature allowing players to fight out their battles in the tactical battle game, Field of Glory 2. They discuss what sets this game apart from other games such as the other 2019 Rome …

In this episode Matt, Eric and Jean discuss the future of how we buy games, will it forever remain Steam or will it be filled with a multitude of online game stores. They also discuss the possibility of games becoming a service, a Netflix of Gaming. They dive into the possible ramifications it will have on games and indie developers. YouTube Tortug…

In this episode the gang gets together to discuss which games to get during the 2019 Steam Summer Sale. The main topic of the episode focuses on the recently released Steel Division 2 by Eugen Systems. We compare the game to the developers predecessors as well as other games such as Combat Mission. NEW FEATURE. Chapter Markers. For the first time w…

In this episode we sit down with the illustrious Game Director of Hearts of Iron 4, Dan Lind. We dive into the heart of the game, its journey from the original Hearts of Iron, its latest DLC and the future of the series. There are a lots of juicy details, be sure to listen to the full episode. Episode Description Links: YouTube TortugaPower -> www.…

In this episode, Matt (TheHistoricalGamer), Eric (Tortuga) & Jean (TheStrategyWargamer) sit down with Fredrik Wallin, the designer and developer of the recently released strategy game, Rule The Waves 2. The episode dives into his history with strategy games, plans for future projects, and his recently released game. Join us as we discuss one of the…

In this episode we are joined by Special Guest Tortuga as we discuss the controversial release of Paradox's latest game Imperator Rome. We break down the game and the community backlash that has surrounded its release. YouTube TortugaPower -> www.youtube.com/tortugapower The Historical Gamer -> www.youtube.com/thehistoricalgamer The Strategy WarGam…

In this episode, Matt (thehistoricalgamer) and Jean (thestrategywargamer) come back after a bit of a hiatus and catch up on the games they have been playing. They discuss the recently released Battlestar Galactica Deadlock Sin & Sacrifice DLC as well as the uniquely designed RPG / Strategy game, We. The Revolution. The episode was recorded in late …