Why do wargamers think Strategy is the key to victory in every thing(including in sports such as tennis)?

anonymous

2011-04-10 14:54:48 UTC

I notice wargamers seem to think every thing revolves around strategy.From fighting games to boxing, and other sports to waging real war, they all think strategy is the most important thing to winning. Iam especially irritated how they criticize fighting games,boxing, and whatnot for lacking strategies and bragging how wargaming is superior because its for people with brains

To put as an example, a guy at wargaming forums criticized Fight Night and other such games as revolving around uber micro and knowing the game combos rather than being able to use your own style and use the mind to invent tactics.

But anybody who participates real fighting sports such as Boxing and Judo knows sing your head is only complementary. In reality you have to know basic combos and techniqes and be conditioned in order to win not strategy.

Anybody who actually fights in combat sports knows that people who rely more on strategy and tactics will easily get pawned as physical conditioning and memorization and being able to execute combos and techniques ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than brains will ever be in fighting. Strategies and tactics are just complimentary to fighting sports like Judo and Boxing and in fact are just complementary to ANY OTHER SPORT. You have to know combos and techniques and be conditioned to do descently in combat sports otherwise you won't last long in a Judo match, Boxing Match, Muay Thai Match, etc.

Brains are useless if the body is weak and techniques are sloppy in fighting sports as opposed to wargame and the same applies to fighting game, one has to memorize combos and techniques in fighting games in order to do well like in real life fighting sports. Strategy comes as a complimentary once one has mastered fundamental combos and techniqes other wise the best strategy will completely fail no matter how cunning you are

Another example is tennis.One wargamer stated Tennis is nothing but a sport of agility and dexterity and lacks strategy.But anybody who plays tennis Tennis is not merely a sport of agility and dexterity nor are fighting sports. Yes having agility and dexterity is important but they are only fundamentals. Once a player has dexterity and agility, other factors come into play such as angle of aim, timing of hit, etc., and of course strategy becomes as equally important as agility and dexterity in Tennis.

Same goes for boxing and other combat sports, strategies just as complex as if not more than wargaming strategies come into play once the fighter is conditioned and has mastered basic techniques and combos.

In fact most sports and games rely on mastering the fundamentals such as physical conditioning and mastery of basic techniques before strategy come into play. Otherwise you can be the most brilliant strategist and tacticians but you'll still lose if you fight an opponent who is much more athletic than you and has mastered basic techniques.

Why do Wargamers think everything revolves around strategy and they can win at anything be it a sport or whatnot if they have could develop strategies?In the real world ,its not like this-one often has to master physical conditioning and fundamental techniques in most sports/games/hobbies such as boxing and RTS in order to win!Brains are only secondary and only come into play once the fundamentals are mastered!