Most board games involve both luck and strategy.

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

* Abstract strategy games like chess, Tafl games, checkers, go, Reversi, or modern games such as Abalone or Stratego

As with many popular arcade games, experienced players ( who can complete the game relatively easily ) become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score ( which involves a lot more skill and strategy ).

Category: Abstract strategy games

* Rush ( computer and video games ), an RTS strategy influenced by the blitzkrieg method

In addition to the development and publishing of home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko, and pachislo games, the company publishes strategy guides, maintains its own arcade centers, and licenses its franchise and character properties for use in tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances.

The whole system of advancements from beginning to end is called the technology tree, or simply the Tech tree ; this concept has been adopted in many other strategy games.

Category: Turn-based strategy video games

Category: Abstract strategy games

Cyborgs have also been present in real-time strategy video games.

In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.

In the Master of Orion series of space strategy games, there exists an extraterrestrial race called Silicoids, whose appearance ( and presumably composition ) is similar to crystalline mineral structures.

The games consists of a number of genres including life simulation, adventure, video card game, strategy and racing games, though they are mainly action role-playing games.

Much of our knowledge of the life of Diophantus is derived from a 5th century Greek anthology of number games and strategy puzzles.

Category: Free, open source strategy games

Category: Turn-based strategy video games

Such games emphasize strategy, downplay luck and conflict, lean towards economic rather than military themes, and usually keep all the players in the game until it ends.

Likewise, they generally require more thought and planning than party games, such as Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit, but less than classic strategy games, such as chess and Go.

The strategy of the very long instruction word ( VLIW ) causes some ILP to become implied directly by the software, reducing the amount of work the CPU must perform to boost ILP and thereby reducing the design's complexity.

Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action or make some concessions.

Before the Vicksburg Campaign in the spring of 1863, Sherman expressed serious reservations about the wisdom of Grant's unorthodox strategy, but he went on to perform well in that campaign under Grant's supervision.

Humans are not rational by definition, but they can think and behave rationally or not, depending on whether they apply, explicitly or implicitly, the strategy of theoretical and practical rationality to the thoughts they accept and to the actions they perform.

* Nuclear blackmail: Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action or make some concessions.

A good indexing strategy is a major factor in deciding the overall performance of a production system, especially when executing rule sets that result in highly combinatorial pattern matching ( i. e., intensive use of beta join nodes ), or, for some engines, when executing rules sets that perform a significant number of WME retractions during multiple match-resolve-act cycles.

The most direct strategy for calculating life and death is to perform a tree search on the moves which potentially affect the stones in question, and then to record the status of the stones at the end of the main line of play.

The increasing interest in how some businesses in an industry perform better than others led to the emergence of the ‘ resource based view ’ ( RBV ) of strategy ( Wernerfelt, 1984 ; Barney, 1991 ; Grant, 1991 ), which seeks to discover the firm-specific sources of superior performance – an interest that has increasingly come to dominate research.

Their aim is to determine the general policy and strategy of 3GPP and perform the following tasks:

These included Podd ( find out which actions a red blobby character can perform ( e. g. jump, smile, dance ), Squeeze ( a two player strategy game of squeezing shapes onto a board ) and Cranky ( solve maths problems to repair a living calculator ).

This strategy seldom works because there are typically third parties that are prepared to perform the service if parts are still available.

Once the Golden Horde Tatar ( sometimes also spelled " Tartar ") families had settled in Lithuania in the late 14th century, they were required to perform military service for the Great Prince of Lithuania and Polish King, and the Poles started incorporating much of their military vocabulary and many of their traditions along with their strategy and tactics.

In 1990 he opened his own shopping mall, Lugner City, in a working class district of Vienna and, from the start, aggressively advertised his business by regularly inviting celebrities — starting with Thomas Gottschalk — who would perform there and sign autographs — a marketing strategy not very common in a city that, back then, hardly had any shopping malls.

An implementation intention ( II ) is a self-regulatory strategy in the form of an if-then-plan (" If situation X arises, then I will perform response Y ") that can lead to better goal attainment.

In economic terms, a pay-to-play strategy elevates those people who can afford to perform for nothing, or can afford to pay for their stage-time, which has nothing to do with their quality as an act.

A massive retaliation doctrine, as with any nuclear strategy based on the principle of mutually assured destruction and as an extension the second-strike capability needed to form a retaliatory attack, encourages the opponent to perform a massive counterforce first strike.

With the leftover funds the issuer purchases the options and swaps needed to perform whatever the investment strategy is.

Actions Per Minute, commonly abbreviated as APM, is a term used in the real time strategy field of cybersport which refers to the total number of actions that a player can perform in a minute.

At a board of Regular Army officials, Lt. Leigh Wong attempts to persuade them to use Geist in battle ; he is a genetically-engineered soldier bred to specialize in strategy and versatility, designed to perform as a solitary fighter, rather than within a group.

Real time strategy games are often a multiple unit selection game ( multiple game characters can be selected at once to perform different tasks, as opposed to only selecting one character at a time ) with a sky view ( view looking down from above ) but some recent games such as Tom Clancy's EndWar, are single unit selection and third person view.

The strategy of 012, Globcall, Cellcom and Orange is different from the former two in that they did not rush to establish a new physical infrastructure ; rather, they provide telephone services which are based on the infrastructure of Bezeq and Hot, by means of Internet telephony technologies and additional technologies.

One of the most infamous versions of a rush is the " Zergling rush " from the real-time strategy game StarCraft ; in fact, the term " zerging " has become synonymous with rushing.

The masterful strategy adopted by William O ' Brien of bringing about agreement on land purchase between tenants and landlords under the Act, may almost be said to have been too great a success as it resulted in a rush of landlords to sell and of tenants to buy.

This masterful strategy of bringing about agreement on land purchase between tenants and landlords under the Act, resulted in a rush of landlords to sell and of tenants to buy.

In real-time strategy ( RTS ), real-time tactical ( RTT ), squad-based tactical shooter ( TS ), and team-based first-person shooter ( FPS ) computer games, a rush is an all-in fast attack or preemptive strike intended to overwhelm an unprepared opponent.

GameSpot said that " what really makes Battlezone so special is the way it blends the adrenaline rush of first-person action games with the strategy and resource management of Red Alert ".

Fitchett in How England Saved Europe: The story of the Great War, Vol. III, The war in the Peninsula: "... it is also a dramatic justification of Moore's strategy that he had drawn a hostile force so formidable into a hilly corner of Spain, thus staying its southward rush.

The Soviet " tank rush " was a popular strategy online, involving building many heavy tanks and overwhelming the opponent with sheer numbers.