I’m not sure I have a favourite mechanic, as generally I try not to think in those terms. A lot of my games employ a simple two-action per turn format. I think it is important to present players with simple choices that have complex consequences.
Quotes about decisions
These are not just complex decisions; these are interesting ones. Interesting decisions make for interesting games.
Gaming is both about freedom and constraints—it’s about making free decisions under strictly constraining rules, while real life is about making decisions of which we don’t know if they are really free, under extremely mysterious rules.
In every case, however, wargames are helping their creators and participants to learn something useful and important about the decision-making environments they represent.
