Strategy Game Tropes

• A Commander Is You
• After Action Report
• All Swords Are the Same
• Anti-Air
• Anti-Cavalry
• Arbitrary Headcount Limit
• Area of Effect
• Armor-Piercing Attack

• Baseless Mission

• Civil Warcraft
• Command and Conquer Economy
• Construct Additional Pylons
• Cosmetically Different Sides
• Crippling Overspecialization

• Damage Is Fire
• Defog of War
• Dual Mode Unit

• Easy Logistics
• Enemy Exchange Program

• Faction Calculus
• Firewood Resources
• Fog of War

• Garrisonable Structures
• Geo Effects

• Hero Must Survive
• Hold the Line

• Instant Militia

• Magic Tool

• No Recycling
• Non-Entity General
• Not Playing Fair with Resources

• Protection Mission

• Refining Resources
• Reinventing the Wheel
• Ridiculously-Fast Construction
• Risk Style Map

• Separate but Identical
• Some Dexterity Required
• Splash Damage Abuse
• Starting Units
• Stop Poking Me
• Strategy Game Tropes
• Strong Flesh Weak Steel
• Support Power

• Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors
• Tech Tree

• Unblockable Attack
• Units Not to Scale

• Video Game Time

• Weather of War
• Worker Unit

• You Have Researched Breathing
• You Require More Vespene Gas

• Zerg Rush