Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
– Sun Tzu
Quotes about strategy
Rules complexity was not necessarily matched by strategic complexity; the only real choice for the German player in a strategic World War II game, after all, is “Britain first” or “Russia first”. The attraction of the wargame lies in mastering a complex system; and in the difficult, complicated tactical decisions to be made—exactly how to position your counters to deliver an attack of maximal effectiveness.
Learning perfect strategy does not make a game more fun; it just makes it more likely that you will win.
My actual thesis here is that “strategy” and “skill” are different , and the main difference between them is that strategy has a luck component , while “skill” doesn’t .
Tactics is what you do when there is something to do; strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do.