Questions tagged [strategy]
This tag should be used when planning the overall, broad, and long term objectives for an organization or individual. Depending on your needs, this can be used with economic, military, political, or other objectives.
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Finding Nymphs Before Predators
In this case, Nymphs means not immature insects but beings born of the life force of nature itself. When magic entered this world from an alternate universe, that magical essence combined with the ...
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Storming Area 51 [closed]
As you've probably heard, there's been a recent tongue-in-cheek event on Facebook to storm Area 51 on September 20th. Over 222,000 people have "confirmed" that they are going, with more than 251,000 ...
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Can realistic planetary invasion have any meaningful strategy?
The sea is used as an analogy in space travel, and sometimes it works well. Ships sail on long journeys, between distant lands, across a hostile medium.
But these analogies tend to break down when it ...
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Aftermath of a Midas-weapon war - what to do with all that gold?
After reading the question Are “Midas” swords useless for warfare? it really tricked my mind of finding ways on what to do will all that gold.
So I was wondering: assume a war broke out and you used ...
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Defensive strategies against teleporting dragons
I have finally found an edition of the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy - living in Italy, I only had access to it thanks to my father's old books, and he doesn't own the complete series - so I have been ...
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Duplicating people to expand a civilization
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"God games" are organised, in which a hundred immortals participate. Each "God" are given an alternate dimension. These dimensions are all identical and contain an Earth where Humans didn't ...
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Tactics to prepare for an alien invasion when nobody will believe you
This question is focused on what one man could do without the implicit resources on a larger scale.
The year is 1980. Paul is a 17-year-old farmer in Iowa, with nothing really to his name besides his ...
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Zombie army is bad idea. But why actually?
In my custom fantasy world, raising the dead is really simple. Before the Great Act of Beautiful Death, raising a body and keeping it alive (undead?) for at least a week was a part of entrance exams ...
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How does one intimidate enemies without having the capacity for violence?
I'm building a world in a nation role-play community. I recently have begun to use ftl technologies (ftl information transfer and travel) while the majority of the community has had ftl technologies ...
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How would a command structure and strategy for a galactic war be organized?
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In a galaxy not so far far away....
The Andromeda galaxy is presided over by two major powers - the Y'Ing and the Y'Ang. These powers have existed together but never integrated with ...
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How would randomly interacting humans change the battle strategies of 2 inch tall figures?
There are two teams, green team and tan team, who are fighting each other for some reason that's not super important. Both teams consist of human shaped plastic figures about two inches tall and ...
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What is the best way to defeat a enemy of superior numbers but inferior technology?
Our protagonist civilization is based on a large island in the middle of the pacific(think half the size of Australia), has a population of 100 million, has abundant resources and is totally self-...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary? [closed]
So bear with me on this
So I'm working on constructing a world for a DnD game that I am going to be running. I have a general idea of the world that I would like to develop, but am getting stuck on ...
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Making food last for a large group
In my world of the zombie apocalypse, the zombies are slightly easier to kill, meaning that if a group keeps calm and stays strong, they can last as long as the food does. But this means I have to ...
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Lightning strikes a medieval army. What happens?
In a battle, a mage uses a spell that summons a bolt of lightning from the heavens to strike whatever the mage desires.
The lightning lands smack dab in the middle of a tightly packed formation of ...
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Mechanized infantry of the medieval age
Using resources already available at the time, could medieval age armies form their equivalent of a mechanized infantry and perhaps implement a sort of "blitzkrieg" strategy during battles? If so, how ...
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Why would a regiment of soldiers be armed with giant warhammers instead of more conventional medieval weapons?
What are real advantages of using big hammers(BIG) that these soldiers have been trained with for years (some since children)? There is a heavy cultural aspect to it, but right now I need only focus ...
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What can be a good strategic point in outer space
On earth where we puny humans fight each other on land air and sea we have of a concept of strategic points which are
oil fields
trade choke points
islands in the sea
mountains on land
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Medieval fantasy world, rebel forces against an empire, how can the rebels win? [closed]
So I found myself in this situation:
My characters are in a land composed mainly of city states with some degree of recognition of common nationality (a la greeks at the time of the persian wars), the ...
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How could a single dragon pose a threat to more modern human settlements?
Don't get me wrong, my dragons squarely fall into the player races, and definitely don't pose the same threat as real monsters.
You see, using Lobotomy Corporation as an inspiration, I created several ...
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How might a Government subdue a rebellious state without armed conflict?
The background information on the civilization is here
In my world , where the entire "human" race is united, the age of colonization is under way, with certain clans making lots of headway.( Clans ...
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Strategic Value of a line of symmetry
So in my world, there is a line of 180 degree symmetry. What this means if that if we assign it coordinates of (0,0,z), then (x,y,z) and (-x,-y,z) will be the same point. The z=0 plane is the ground.
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How could necromancy allow for widespread filibustering without making it too strong?
In the (roughly) D&D based world of ..., The Abyss, which birthed magic, gives men the power to fulfill the deepest and darkest desires of their hearts, unleashing great suffering upon their ...
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How does one defend a military depot against Nazi-ish Sasquatch-vampires in a continent-sized post-apocalyptic wasteland?
There is a lengthy background to this, which I feel is relevant. Yes, the title is supposed to be somewhat B-movie-esque.
For some reason, there are Sasquatch-vampires (more on their biology later) on ...
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How could a pre-emptive attack on dragon make sense?
So, one part that stayed consistent with my story drafts regarding one of my dragon characters is the pre-emptive strike.
You see, the dragon, Gyvaris, is supposed to have a bad attitude. He can ...
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