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Strategy games which encourage users to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.
First starting out as simple machines throwing stones, artillery has evolved greatly and is an important weapon in war.
Whether you're trying to stay alive for a certain time period or just trying to gain the upper hand in a fight, being able to make a barricade is crucial to your survival.
A philosophical and religious system based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
A Build Queue allows a production unit or structure to immediately build a new unit once the current unit is finished building.
Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.
The concept of establishing colonies and/or maintaining them either as resource nodes (as in civilization) or as part of the general game concept (Anno series, Colonization)
The act of building something. Using resources to build units, buidlings, structures of any kind.
CTRL 1-9 = CTRL Group. Crucial to battlefield success, using Control Groups in most RTS games allows one to better manage ones forces.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
A destructible environment means the player has the ability to destroy his/her surroundings. This allows players to use the environment to their advantage.
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
An elephant is the largest land mammal who has big ears, a trunk for a nose, a tail, and tusks. Supposedly they have good memories, hidden graveyards, a love of peanuts, and a great fear of mice.
An Expansion brings new missions, modes & new story elements to a full product title. Expansions typically require a full version game to function, but there are also stand-alone packs as well.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
A staple in both the real-time and turn-based strategy genres, Fog of War simulates the unknowns of the battlefield by covering areas of the map, to be progressively revealed by the player.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
An animation system used in creating games.
Havok Physics (Havok) is a physics API developed by Irish company Havok and released in 2000. It is used in video games as a physics engine, allowing for realistic interactions between in-game entities.
A religion of the Indian subcontinent, encompassing many different traditions. It is the largest third religion in the world, and also one of the world's oldest religions still in practice.
Equines that go 'neigh' and tend to eat hay. Some are the stars of motion pictures. The truest of companions to many adventurers.
Hotkeys allow advanced players to map game functions to a single button on a keyboard for quick and easy access.
Islam is a monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur'an. A text considered by its adherents to be the word of God given to Muhammad, considered by the Muslims to be the last prophet of God.
Logging is the process of cutting down trees for timber. This is an important aspect in many strategy games.
In real time strategy games, Macromanagement or "macro" is a loose term used to describe the ability to produce units.
Micromanagement is the act of increasing the efficiency and longevity of units during a battle, or managing equipment, statistics and abilities on an obsessive level.
Armed forces. The arm of government that deals with fighting wars and protecting a nation from external or internal threats
The minimap is a small, simplified version of a larger map. This plays a vital role in many games, especially Real Time Strategy, where it is important to have an overview of the entire map.
A member of any number of tribes or ethnic groups, indigenous to regions of North America which are now part of the United States. Many of these groups continue to exist as intact legal and political entities.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
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