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Resource caps are useful because unlimited stockpiles can remove decisions; scarcity forces the player to reveal what they actually value. Another angle makes it more interesting: A tech switch is dramatic because it attacks the opponent's assumptions, forcing yesterday's perfect counter to solve a different problem today. The strongest unit in any strategy game is information arriving before the bad news.

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Turn-based strategy gives players unlimited thinking time in theory, but good design still creates pressure through limited resources, irreversible choices and threats that will mature on future turns. One more page from the weird history book: The term 'zugzwang' in chess describes a position where having to move is itself a disadvantage. It is the rare strategy situation where doing nothing would be better—if the rules allowed it.