Grand Strategy Games

A grand strategy game is a tabletop game that involves large scale strategic elements. Grand strategy games come in many different genres. Science fiction fantasy, and historical periods are all common settings. Grand strategy games often involve warfare at various scales as well as some form of economic simulation. Players have to manage resources or income and spend that to produce units which they then use to expand across the map and fight other players with.

Some notable examples of grand strategy games are:


 * Axis and Allies
 * Twilight Imperium

Shut Up and Sit Down, a board gaming review site, does an excellent job in explaining the core concepts of a grand strategy game (and what makes a good one) in their review of Twilight Imperium, which can be found here.