"Quantity has a quality all its own."
Defeating a strong opponent with a very large number of disposable combatants. Usually used by the evil side, since
their definition of "disposable" will stretch a lot farther.
As an
Evil Overlord, it is important to choose your
Evil Minions so that this does not apply to
your troops, since it
usually doesn't work against heroes.
The
Trope Namer is the popular real-time strategy game
StarCraft; the original meaning of the term was more a form of
Sequence Breaking where the Zerg race "rushed" to an attacking unit technology and invaded to take out all the
Worker Units of their opponents. It evolved into the current definition by
Memetic Mutation.
See also
Death of a Thousand Cuts and
We Have Reserves. May lead to
The War Sequence. Often a component of
Hollywood Tactics. Contrast the
Elite Army.
Examples:
