When I was growing up, my parents let me play computer games. Some were strategy games based on history or cheesy Tolkienesque fantasy. Here are the horrible politics I was exposed to according to conservatives.
Lords of the Realm 2: If you don’t take care of your peasants, they won’t help you later and it will be your fault.
Caesar 3: Your citizens require access to food, health services, and public safety services or they’ll die in a famine, plague, fire, or collapsed building and it will be your fault.
Lords of Magic: If you don’t pay your party members for doing their job (which includes hazards like going into abandoned manors and crystal mines and water caves, and confronting enemies like necromancers on giant flying bats) then they’ll walk off the job and it will be your fault. If you don’t bother healing them and then they die that’s also your fault. If you don’t give your excess resources to your cities so they can grow and protect themselves and they get razed by a handful of skeletons and a talking cat in three turns, guess whose fault that is, it’s yours.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3: You can only do so many things per day. Large stacks of similar units are multiplied in power than the same number of units moving as individuals– and less susceptible to Berserk. You can defuse confrontation with diplomacy and gain powerful allies that way. Spooky skeletons and regal unicorns can coexist peacefully so long as they follow the same leader. Those who are immune to Armageddon benefit if it’s brought on
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