By the way, the way I play strategy games (I stink at them.) there's no "complex brain work" going on. Create workers, get resources, build armies, build defenses, send army, get annihilated, repeat until victory. Now, this is certainly not the correct way to play a strategy game, but when I play like this, is it no longer a strategy game? I'm not planning ahead, I'm not thinking about what I'm doing in the moment, and yet with easy missions these simple actions are sometimes enough. With more complex missions I start out like that, then when I fail several times make a simple change to the formula and repeat. Eventually I make it through.
Again, I know this is the wrong way to play. But still, how can strategy games be defined by skills that aren't always even necessary?
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