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grand strategy game

grand strategy game noun: a type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).

Noun

grand strategy game (plural grand strategy games)

  1. A type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).
    • […] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991.2013, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games, unnumbered page
    • As [Marc James] Carpenter (2021) prompts us to consider of one popular grand strategy game, “will a seasoned Europa Universalis player who succeeds at the enormous challenge of pushing back colonial invaders playing as the Cherokee gain an appreciation of Cherokee sovereignty, or an arrogant...2021, Kristine Levan, Steven Downing, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games, page 91
    Synonyms:
    GSG, map game

Synonyms of grand strategy game

Forms of grand strategy game

pluralgrand strategy games

Questions about grand strategy game

What does grand strategy game mean?
Grand strategy game means a type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).
What part of speech is grand strategy game?
Grand strategy game is a noun.
What is the plural of grand strategy game?
The plural of grand strategy game is grand strategy games.

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