A strange little side quest
One reason strategy games keeps producing good game ideas around Maganic Wars is that its history is full of strange turns. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. The same trail leads to another fact: In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. So a round of Maganic Wars is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer strategy games timeline.
