grand strategy game
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
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).
Example Sentences
- "[…] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991."
- "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 assumption that colonial conquest could have been avoided with superior strategy?""
- "Crusader Kings II is a grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East."