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The main geopolitical lesson from Red Alert: Build more Tesla Coils.

I'm going to add a realism mod to balance this out a bit -

The car would get a flat tire on the way, and the engineers would spend hours arguing about how to fix it and whether operations would be "more scalable" if we designed a car that didn't have tires at all; Then the commander would call them to see what the heck was going on and they would all get nosebleeds from the stress.

I cannot upvote this enough.

Meanwhile if we applied the lessons of command and conquer, no enemy can defeat the power of sandbags!

Just need Tanya.

I once edited the .ini file to give Tanya the cruiser cannons. Most of the map would just... evaporate.

C&C games were among my earliest forays into modding. It was so easy with the whole game wrapped up in an ini file, and so much fun to muck with stuff.