Military Madness (or, as it was known in Japan, Nectaris) helped create the turn-based strategy game when it came out in Japan in 1989.
Let’s set the scene. It’s 1989, in Japan. Sega hasn’t released a Shining Force game yet, and won’t for another three years. Nintendo has the first Fire Emblem on the way, but it won’t be out for another year .
It’s kind of funny, then, that it was a couple of Japanese console games that played a significant role in the direction western strategy games would eventually take. Thanks to Dia Lacina, we’ve hadhad on the development of role-playing games in Japan, but this kind of shaping and sharing goes both ways.
An encirclement bonus halves the offensive and defensive stats of an enemy unit, meaning you can surround a dangerous vehicle with a bunch of foot soldiers and then destroy it without losing a ton of your units in the process—or, at the least, severely lessen the damage it can do to you. Which in turn means that in order to get into this position, you have to be thinking far ahead with each move, and not just reacting to whatever happened on the last turn.
Earlier, when I said that “for the most part” the units you start with are the ones you have? There’s an exception to that which also plays into how you plan out those moves. Some maps have factories on them, which are unclaimed at the start of the battle. So it becomes a race to reach the factory and have it produce some new units for you to help stem or turn the tide, depending on your situation, but you also can’t be leaving your more agile and faster units out where they can get picked off.
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