Jan
Oddball Strategy
I am enjoying a PC game called Dawn of War. I bought it in the cheap software section of the local office supply store. Dawn of War is based on a game called “Warhammer 40,000.” They sold it in the hobby shop where I had worked for a while. The original hobby shop game is rather weird, as it entails various types of humanoids and peculiar aliens fighting wars. The PC game is fun because it entails enough visual science fiction to be entertaining.
Okay, I like watching gunfights with spacemen and aliens. Things are even better when there are odd space vehicles and space tanks.
Games like Dawn of War are just that: games. They do not teach the fine arts of strategy and tactics. They teach how to win by playing with the game’s particular rules. There is a way to beat the aliens in the game. That way may or may not be tactically or strategically sound for real-world conflicts.
Sometimes there are situations in life where the way to success is not tactically sound. There are people who make conditions that require a response peculiar to that situation, much like playing a game with its own set of rules. I am my own best example. I grew up in a household like that. Dysfunctional families impose their own unreal rules. The problem was that I had to balance two sets of rules: one for home and one for the real world. What made for survival in the everyday world would have led to my downfall in the artificial world that was my so-called family.
Unreal situations might very well require unreal solutions. Success means adapting to the situation so that you can overcome it. The plan for success is that simple: adapt to overcome. Whether the environment is the real world or something unreal, success is probable if you can adjust your methods for the specific situation that you are facing.
