"Player psychology has absolutely nothing to do with rational thought ... the attacking unit has a strength of 1.5, and the defending unit has a strength of 0.5. So the attacking unit should win 3 times for every 1 time the defending unit wins. It's 3:1. That's just math. That's what the math says."

Wow, I liked Sid Meyer a lot more before I listened to that arrogant diatribe about how stupid his players are and about how his decisions are unarguable Math-God-Given conclusions that you'd have to be A Stupid Irrational Loser to disagree with. Fuck you, Sid. You can design your game any way you want. Don't blame shitty game design on math; math didn't make you decide that combat strength should map linearly to odds of winning. That's a shit-ass combat system and not any more mathematically pure than "biggest number always wins", or using a health system like later games did. The audacity to stand up in front of people and lament how he had to get his pure, beautiful game all dirty because of the irrationality of his stupid loser players who just want a game that doesn't feel like bullshit ... come on. So much respect was just lost for that man. Never meet your heroes, nor listen to them talk about how much smarter they are than everyone else.