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Strategy games which encourage users to eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Large, semi-aquatic, scaly lizards. Not to be confused with crocodiles.
Archers are marksman that practice the arts of archery. Archers specialize in picking enemies off from a distance one by one. using bows and arrows to deliver precise shots to unsuspecting opponents. it's a class base or a unit for a strategy game, archers are lightly armored and have less hitponits. but has moderate speed, longer range and highest damage of them all.
First starting out as simple machines throwing stones, artillery has evolved greatly and is an important weapon in war.
A rogue character who doesn't obey the law, bandits are known to steal from people for their own selfish gain.
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.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Winged, usually flying creatures, many of which enjoy perching on branches and defecating on unfortunate victims below.
The boar were one of the most feared animals in Medieval Europe during the Middle Ages.
Body armor in games acts as additional protection. In most cases, when a player takes damage that would completely affect their health, their body armor reduces the damage taken or takes the damage instead.
AI Bots are computer-controlled game characters that substitute for characters that are otherwise typically played by a human, and are most commonly found in multiplayer games.
The era between 3300 and 1200 BC where a civilization makes tools and weaponry out of bronze. The bronze age sits between the stone age and the iron age
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.
A concept in which a person or object is on fire and taking continuous damage. It often takes fast movement, water, or an item to heal.
Camels are often used as transport in order to easily traverse sandy environments.
An age-old, widely-hated strategy in multiplayer games: stay in one spot and kill passers-by. Also refers to a more benign activity in MMOs.
Many games have had collectible cards as a part of the gameplay.
Cavalry Troopers are warriors the specialized in mounted combat.
Centaurs have the upper half of a man, and the lower half of a horse. Typically they are hunters.
Special codes or button combinations used to gain powers or advantages in a game. Generally hidden.
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
Christianity is a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. It is also the largest religion in the world.
Limited editions of games that include extra "perks" like Making of DVDs and a nice and shiny tin with extra box art
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.
Cooperative play in games allows humans to play together as a team to accomplish a task. Instead of playing against a human opponent, the team must defeat an AI. Cooperative Play in some games also means 2 human versus 2 human, this occurs in some Billiards games. (Scotch Doubles / Doubles)
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