Military Strategy Through History
📋 What it is
Timeless military ideas — terrain, surprise, concentration of force — appear in strategy games and real history.
🗣️ Coach says
Many game strategies echo real military thinking: use the TERRAIN to your advantage, achieve SURPRISE, and CONCENTRATE your force where it counts instead of spreading thin. Ancient generals wrote these down thousands of years ago, and you'll recognise every one of them on a game board.
🧠 Memory hook
Use the terrain, seek surprise, concentrate your force. Old ideas, still true.
😂 Giggle
Why do chess bishops always travel diagonally?
Because they refuse to go straight to the point!
😲 Whoa!
Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," written about 2,500 years ago, is still taught in military academies AND business schools — and its ideas map directly onto strategy games.
✅ Quick check: Name one timeless military-strategy idea that also applies to strategy games.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Any of: use the terrain to your advantage, seek surprise, or concentrate your force where it matters instead of spreading thin.
These classic principles transfer directly from real strategy to games.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
On a game board, find a spot where "terrain" (a strong square/position) gives an advantage. Use it.