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* AThicketOfSpears: The BoringButPractical strategy of getting a lot of footmen with pikes together and having them all point them at the enemy at once.
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* ''VideoGame/TheSapling'' has a simplified version of r/K selection. While all animals only produce a single offspring at a time, pregnancy/hatching time is derived from a species' size and the amount of complex body parts it has. As a result, more powerful species tend to have much smaller populations because they simply can't reproduces as fast as weaker ones.
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* ''VideoGame/TheSapling'' has a simplified version of r/K selection. While all animals only produce a single offspring at a time, pregnancy/hatching time is derived from a species' size and the amount of complex body parts it has. As a result, more powerful species tend to have much smaller populations because they simply can't reproduces as fast as weaker ones. Later updates would also add more K type parenting options like nest building and carrying young, though just like everything else they increase the time until the offspring are born.
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** When the Adeptus Custodes, the PraetorianGuard for the Emperor of Mankind, Games Workshop leaned heavily on their reputation as peerless warriors. The weakest Custodes unit is comparable to an Ork Warboss (i.e. the pinnacle of a AsskickingEqualsAuthority faction), but also has a points cost to match. In other words, the Custodes in a one-on-one fight can probably slaughter nearly anything in front of them, but they can only ever be deployed in small numbers.
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** When the Adeptus Custodes, the PraetorianGuard for the Emperor of Mankind, Games Workshop leaned heavily on their reputation as peerless warriors. The weakest Custodes unit is comparable to an Ork Warboss (i.e. the pinnacle of a AsskickingEqualsAuthority AsskickingLeadsToLeadership faction), but also has a points cost to match. In other words, the Custodes in a one-on-one fight can probably slaughter nearly anything in front of them, but they can only ever be deployed in small numbers.
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* This is most especially true when, in the RealRobotGenre of anime, one-off models like {{Super Prototype}}s and {{Ace Custom}}s go up against waves of limited or mass-produced {{Mook Mobile}}s. You can see this in each of the various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series, where the titular mecha are given reasons as to why they could take on mass-produced armies alone, whether it is {{Unobtanium}} in the case of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', or [[BlackBox black box technology]] in the case of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''.
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* This is most especially true when, in the RealRobotGenre of anime, one-off models like {{Super Prototype}}s and {{Ace Custom}}s go up against waves of limited or mass-produced {{Mook Mobile}}s. You This can see this be seen in each many of the various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series, where the titular mecha are given reasons as to why they could take on mass-produced armies alone, whether it is {{Unobtanium}} in the case of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', or [[BlackBox black box technology]] in the case of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''.''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''. However, "In RealLife, however, unless there is a sizable technological difference, quantity will often win out" note in the trope description above also applies, as in some series it is not unusual for factions to have bridged the gap with the titular Gundams at which point their quality advantage is negated.
** In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original series]]'', the Gundam represents a quantum leap in Mobile Suit development, being completely impervious to the 120mm machinegun fielded by the Principality of Zeon's mass production Zaku II. A major plot point is the Earth Federation creating mass production Mobile Suits of their own due to recognising that as powerful as the Gundam is, a small number of powerful Mobile Suits will not be enough to win the war. By the end of the war, the situation proves this: Zeon's new Gelgoog Mobile Suits are equal to the Gundam in terms of specs, but are completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of [=GMs=] deployed by the Federation. Ancillary material set in the same era will bring up that the Federation spent a long time trying to find a good balance between both quantity and quality, and that while the RGM-79 GM that appears in the original series leans on the "quantity" side, there were GM variants that offered performance comparable to the Gundam while being more cost effective. The GM Sniper II from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'' is described as actually being slightly superior to the Gundam itself while only being a fraction of the price... but still too expensive for actual mass production.
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', the Gundam Mk-II is meant to represent quality over the mass produced Mobile Suits fielded by both sides and thanks to a midseason upgrade is able to match even the powerful experimental Mobile Suits deployed by the Titans. Come ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', however, and the Mk-II is sorely pressed by Axis Zeon's mass produced Mobile Suits, which are more advanced than those used by the Titans.
** In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original series]]'', the Gundam represents a quantum leap in Mobile Suit development, being completely impervious to the 120mm machinegun fielded by the Principality of Zeon's mass production Zaku II. A major plot point is the Earth Federation creating mass production Mobile Suits of their own due to recognising that as powerful as the Gundam is, a small number of powerful Mobile Suits will not be enough to win the war. By the end of the war, the situation proves this: Zeon's new Gelgoog Mobile Suits are equal to the Gundam in terms of specs, but are completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of [=GMs=] deployed by the Federation. Ancillary material set in the same era will bring up that the Federation spent a long time trying to find a good balance between both quantity and quality, and that while the RGM-79 GM that appears in the original series leans on the "quantity" side, there were GM variants that offered performance comparable to the Gundam while being more cost effective. The GM Sniper II from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'' is described as actually being slightly superior to the Gundam itself while only being a fraction of the price... but still too expensive for actual mass production.
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', the Gundam Mk-II is meant to represent quality over the mass produced Mobile Suits fielded by both sides and thanks to a midseason upgrade is able to match even the powerful experimental Mobile Suits deployed by the Titans. Come ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'', however, and the Mk-II is sorely pressed by Axis Zeon's mass produced Mobile Suits, which are more advanced than those used by the Titans.
** When the Adeptus Custodes, the PraetorianGuard for the Emperor of Mankind, Games Workshop leaned heavily on their reputation as peerless warriors. The weakest Custodes unit is comparable to an Ork Warboss (i.e. the pinnacle of a AsskickingEqualsAuthority faction), but also has a points cost to match. In other words, the Custodes in a one-on-one fight can probably slaughter nearly anything in front of them, but they can only ever be deployed in small numbers.
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** In addition to the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs/Orks]], the settings have the Skaven and Tyranids respectively, whose main tactics are to send waves of easily-destroyed critters at defenders to blunt their attacks or get them to waste their ammo before sending in waves of stronger units.
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** In addition to Certain factions -- the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs/Orks]], the settings have the Orcs, Skaven and Beastmen in ''Fantasy'', and the Orks and Tyranids respectively, whose in ''40k'' -- rely heavily on sheer quantity of troops and ability to replenish these to deal with enemies that are superior on a strictly soldier-for-soldier basis. In particular, their main tactics are to send waves of easily-destroyed critters at defenders to blunt their attacks or get them to waste their ammo before sending in waves of stronger units. By contrast, the Elves and Dwarfs in ''Fantasy'' and the Eldar and Custodes in ''40k'' lean heavily on the Quality side, as they tend to be numerically few and thus forced to rely on small armies and strike teams that compensate for their low numbers by a combination of extremely good equipment, rigorously trained soldiers, and innately superior physical abilities.
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* This is the chief decision when list-building in ''TabletopGame/XWingMiniatures''. Whether you favour a small group of elite pilots or a massive swarm of cheap ones can seriously influence your strategy - you can get a Rebel band consisting solely of Poe Dameron, Garven Dreis, and Kyle Katarn in order to abuse focus tokens, or a massive blob of Z-95 Headhunters, while on the Imperial side you can get a fairly elite list of upgraded, named pilots from ships like the TIE Advanced or TIE Phantom, or a [[ZergRush swarm of dirt-cheap Academy Pilots]] in TIE fighters led by an ace like Howlrunner with Swarm Tactics.
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* ''TabletopGame/XWingMiniatures'': This is the chief decision when list-building in ''TabletopGame/XWingMiniatures''. list-building. Whether you favour a small group of elite pilots or a massive swarm of cheap ones can seriously influence your strategy - -- you can get a Rebel band consisting solely of Poe Dameron, Garven Dreis, and Kyle Katarn in order to abuse focus tokens, or a massive blob of Z-95 Headhunters, while on the Imperial side you can get a fairly elite list of upgraded, named pilots from ships like the TIE Advanced or TIE Phantom, or a [[ZergRush swarm of dirt-cheap Academy Pilots]] in TIE fighters led by an ace like Howlrunner with Swarm Tactics.
