grand strategy game

English

Noun

TripleA, a free, open-source grand strategy game.

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).

   Synonym: GSG

   • 2013, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games‎^[1], unnumbered page:

     […] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991.

   • 2021, Kristine Levan, Steven Downing, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games‎^[2], page 91:

     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?"

   • 2022, Jere Kyyrö, “Particularizing the universal: Medievalist constructions of cultural and religious difference in Crusader Kings II”, in Reima Välimäki, editor, Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects‎^[3], page 138:

     Crusader Kings II is a grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Further reading

• Grand strategy wargame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia