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** The game is given strategic depth by its selection of resources. Do you use rare and valuable Uranium for power generation, or nuclear bombs? We have a ton of food and iron, but little oil. Do we build ''a'' tank, or ''an'' aircraft? Exotic biochemicals are needed for both SuperSoldiers and [[BeastOfBattle War-Monsters]]. You can research one or the other, but not both.

** The game is given strategic depth by its selection of resources. Do you use rare and valuable Uranium for power generation, or nuclear bombs? We have a ton of food and iron, but little oil. Do we build ''a'' tank, or ''an'' aircraft? Exotic biochemicals are needed for both SuperSoldiers and [[BeastOfBattlr War-Monsters]]. You can research one or the other, but not both.

** The game is given strategic depth by its selection of resources. Do you use rare and valuable Uranium for power generation, or nuclear bombs? We have a ton of food and iron, but little oil. Do we build A tank, or AN aircraft? Exotic biochemicals are needed for both SuperSoldiers and [[AttackAnimal War-Monsters]]. You can research one or the other, but not both.

* '''Averted''': There are no resources in the game. Units and buildings can be built for free making time the only resource. Or there is no way to produce anything and you have to work with the stuff you are given at the beginning of each mission and what you lack must be acquired by completing side missions (ie: rescuing prisoners to gain more soldiers).

** The game is given strategic depth by its selection of resources. Do you use rare and valuable Uranium for power generation, or nuclear bombs? We have a ton of food and iron, but little oil. Do we build tanks or aircraft? Exotic biochemicals are needed for SuperSoldiers and [[AttackAnimal War-Monsters]]. You can breed those, OR research BioAugmentation, but not both.

** The game is given strategic depth by its selection of resources. Do you use rare and valuable Uranium for power generation, or nuclear bombs? We have a ton of food and iron, but little oil. Do we build tanks or aircraft?

* '''Deconstructed''': To build a tank you need about twenty different kinds of raw materials which are processed by different factory buildings into different intermediate goods which are then used to construct hundreds of different mechanical and electronic components. The tank assembly factory is the last one in a very long production chain.
* '''Reconstructed''': The game is in fact an economy simulation where you manage an arms manufacturing company. Optimizing the convoluted production processes is one of the most interesting aspects of the game. The actual warfare is just a very minor aspect of the game or even completely absent, set to be released in a "Weapons Test ExpansionPack, coming 20XX".

** [[VideoGame/SettlersOfCatan "So how do you make bricks out of sheep anyway?"]]

** "[[CommandAndConquerRedAlert Why do the world superpowers need to harvest Ore while in combat? What's even ''in'' that stuff?]]"
** [[SettlersOfCatan "So how do you make bricks out of sheep anyway?"]]

* '''Reconstructed''': The game is in fact an economy simulation where you manage an arms manufacturing company. Optimizing the convoluted production processes is one of the most interesting aspects of the game. The actual warfare is just a very minor aspect of the game or even completely absent, set to be released in a "Weapons Test ExpansionPack, coming 20XX" .

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Real time strategy games usually have different kinds of resources which have to be gathered to construct buildings and combat units.
* '''Played Straight:''' You have to gather resources to build something.
* '''Exaggerated:''' You have to spend resources for even the smallest action like giving a command to a unit or scrolling the screen.
* '''Justified:'''

* '''Inverted:''' The game simulates recycling of used military hardware. The goal is to gather raw materials by disassembling tanks and other weapons of war.
* '''Subverted:''' There are a lot of resources to collect but they aren't important at all to win the game.

* '''Parodied:''' The resources you need to gather to recruit soldiers are beer and porn. Research is based on how much [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Cake]] and internet acess you give your pet MadScientist.
* '''Deconstructed:''' To build a tank you need about twenty different kinds of raw materials which are processed by different factory buildings into different intermediate goods which are then used to construct hundreds of different mechanical and electronic components. The tank assembly factory is the last one in a very long production chain.
* '''Reconstructed:''' The game is in fact an economy simulation where you manage an arms manufacturing company. Optimizing the convoluted production processes is one of the most interesting aspects of the game. The actual warfare is just a very minor aspect of the game or even completely absent, set to be released in a "Weapons Test ExpansionPack, coming 20XX" .

* '''Averted:''' There are no resources in the game. Units and buildings can be built for free making time the only resource. Or there is no way to produce anything and you have to work with the stuff you are given at the beginning of each mission and what you lack must be acquired by completing side missions (ie: rescuing prisoners to gain more soldiers).

* '''Invoked:''' During a mission your superior officer tells you to "Secure the iron mine to the south so you can build an army to attack the enemy".

You will require fifteen more words and one key click before you will be allowed to return to [[Main/YouRequireMoreVespeneGas the main article]].

* '''Justified:''' The game takes place in a scenario with a very complicated barter economy system. The price to buy a battle tank is indeed five tons of lumber, three tons of wheat and a half ton of gold.

* '''Lampshaded''': "[[CommandAndConquerRedAlert Why do the world superpowers need to harvest Ore while in combat? What's even ''in'' that stuff?]]"

* '''Discussed''': In an action game, the characters talk about how much vespene gas their tanks cost, and hope that the general can procure enough of it to buy them a hospital.

* '''Parodied:''' The resources you need to gather to recruit soldiers are beer and porn. Research is based on how much [[{{Portal}} Cake]] and internet acess you give your pet MadScientist.

* '''Averted:''' There are no resources in the game. Units and buildings can be built for free making time the only resource or there is no way to produce anything and you have to work with the stuff you are given at the beginning of each mission.
** The game has no unit or structure building - you are given all you need at the beginning, or what you lack can be acquired by completing missions (ie: rescuing prisoners to gain more soldiers).

* '''Defied''': There is no need to gather resources. Your commanders send in additional forces when you ask without your needing to pay for them.

* '''Parodied:''' The resources you need to gather to recruit soldiers are beer and porn. Research is based on how much [[{{Portal}} Cake]] you give your pet MadScientist.

* '''Reconstructed:''' The game is in fact an economy simulation where you manage an arms manufacturing company. Optimizing the convoluted production processes is one of the most interesting aspects of the game. The actual warfare is just a very minor aspect of the game or even completely absent.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Why do the world superpowers need to harvest Ore while in combat? What's even ''in'' that stuff?"

* '''Discussed''': In an action game, the characters talk about how much vespene gas their tanks costed, and hope that the general can procure enough of it to buy them a hospital.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''':"Why do the world superpowers need to harvest Ore while in combat? What's even ''in'' that stuff?"

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Defied''': There is no need to gather resources. Your commanders send in additional forces come in when you ask without your needing to pay for them.

* '''Lampshaded''': One character points out how odd it is that very different units can be made from different amounts of the same materials, or that you have to gather these materials on the battlefield.

* '''Parodied:''' The resources you need to gather to recruit soldiers are beer and porn. Research is based on how much [[{{Poratl}} Cake]] you give your pet MadScientist.

* '''Parodied:''' The resources you need to gather to recruit soldiers are beer and porn.