Real life lessons right here.
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If my son didn't dig a series of trenches around his pillow fort I would exile him. Strategic incompetence like that is a liability.
All fun and games until the kid starts dumping boiling oil over the fort walls
Or throw a dead pet into the fort as biological warfare
One of my favourite pieces of crossover between game strategies and "the art of war" is using account siphon in Netrunner.
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.
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15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy’s provisions is equivalent to twenty of one’s own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one’s own store.
Before battle, feed every soldier a picul, to achieve victory.
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.
Sun Tsu - The art of war, 3:3-4
"If you open your gates we will spare your lives. If you are gonna make us siege this shit, we will slaughter everyone, burn the city to the ground, salt the earth and defile your corpses. You have an hour to decide." / Genghis Khan
Or teach her how to build a trebuchet.
Those kids have a healthy appetite.