Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD

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From: pigdos
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:48

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Forces of a thousand units or less aren't commanded by generals. There's not 
much strategizing to be done if your resources are a mere battalion and the 
area involved is a mere 25 square miles (or less). It's a tactical situation 
not a strategic one.

-- 
Doug
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>> It would seem to me they are more tactical than strategic. At the
>> most you're controlling maybe a thousand units on maps that are
>> maybe 25 square miles in size, so the conflicts rarely involve
>> forces larger than battalions.
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> You don't have to control a thousand units.
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