Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization
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Sid Meier expected armies in Civilization to line up along national borders. Players stacked units and fought around cities. The tactics that emerged put rules conceived for a spread-out front to a different use.
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you'd create lines of units at your bordersputting together a bunch of units and moving them around