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Article #290770Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
From: Marshlion
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:20
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:20
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pigdos wrote: > For the mentally challenged I'll give at least one example of strategy. When > the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to attack both the Aleutian islands and > Midway it was a strategic decision, not a tactical one. Tactics can only be > discussed after such strategic decisions have been made (if you don't know > where you're going to fight how can you make tactical decisions on how to do > it). The tactics of how to carry out this strategic decision were left up to > the admirals who commanded the various task forces or task groups because > they would actually BE there. Nimitz didn't second guess the tactical > decisions of Halsey, but Halsey didn't dictate the strategy the entire US > Navy would pursue in the Pacific either. Other strategic decisions might be > to bomb war production facilities as opposed to concentration camps -- > either could have been done, but it isn't a tactical decision. > Ok, where does the difference between strategy and tactics stop? While I agree that it was a strategic move, the carrier fleet still had to decide the strategy on how they were going to take the Islands. If we look at dictionary.com it gives the definition of tactic as (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tactic): n : a plan for attaining a particular goal [syn: maneuver, manoeuvre] and Strategy gives (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=strategy): A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal. See Synonyms at plan. To me this states that the words mean pretty much the same thing (aka they are synonyms), so RTT pretty much means RTS (and RTS pretty much means RTT). -- Marsh Lion
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