Great moments in PC gaming: Painting the map your color in a strategy game

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.

'Painting the map' has a bad name among some players, becoming synonymous with the kind of strategy game where it's the only thing there is to do. Which, for sure, can be boring. When there are no options for politicking and diplomacy, no interesting alliances or trade negotiations or paths forward that don't involve building up a bigger army than that other guy over there then forcibly taking his land, that's dull.