Quotes About Strategy

It's better to train for a battle that never comes, than to die in one you aren't prepared for. -Clear Sky

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.

pool our information," Dimmick said, "to work out a joint plan of campaign." "Thank you, I don't think I'd care to do that," Mason told him. "I want to be free to represent my client in whatever way seems best as the situation develops." "Can't you see, Mr. Dimmick," Rodney Cuff said impatiently, "he's going to pin the whole thing on Driscoll if he has a

The level designers have to know, for example, that by the time the player reaches the fourth level, he will have earned three major weapon upgrades and a faster vehicle, so they set the difficulty of the fourth level's challenges relative to that level of power provided.

In designing your game's internal economy, you need to watch out for deadlocks, which can occur whenever there's a loop in the production process. To avoid deadlocks, either avoid such loops or provide an alternative source for one of the resources.

Entities that store one value are called simple entities. Compound entities are groups of related simple entities, so a compound entity can contain more than one value. For example, a unit in a strategy game normally includes many simple entities that describe its health, damage capability, maximum speed, and so on. Collectively, these make up a compound entity, and the simple entities that make it up are known as its attributes. Thus, a unit's health is an attribute of the unit.

You should also make fresh supplies available to him immediately after he surmounts a challenge that costs him a lot of resources, as Chapter 11 explained. In shooter games, these traditionally take the form of boxes of ammunition and medical kits for restoring health, stored in an area immediately beyond a large group of enemies.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

No, we always get killed because of you, Leeroy Jenkins!

I'm a gamer, Zack. Like you. When I find myself confronted with a puzzle, I can't help but try to solve it.

What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars—he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off—but on a global scale!

There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

But I refused to give up. Until an avatar reached Halliday's Easter egg, anything was still possible. Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I began to formulate a plan. A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off.

But these were real aliens we were fighting—sentient beings with highly advanced technology, intent on destroying us. And we were outnumbered thousands to one. We should've been dead a hundred times already. Were humans really just better at war than they were, or all this time, had the aliens been throwing the game?

Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I

These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)

Leeroy Jenkins!

how they had managed to get close up all round within snapshooting

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds."

In that narrow segment we would have three infantry divisions, side by side. Right behind them would be another infantry and two armored divisions. Once a hole was broken, the armored divisions would slam through several miles beyond, then turn right toward the sea behind the Germans in that sector in the hope of cutting them off and trapping them. The remainder

Blessed is the Second mouse for he shall inherit the Cheese.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.