I’ve been playing Sean O’Connor’s Slay for around 30 years (!), but somehow it took until today, on the Android version, before I tried my hand at “rewilding” the game world.
The rules of the game make trees… a bad thing: you earn no income from hexes with them. But by the time I was winning this map anyway, I figured that encouraging growback would be a pleasant way to finish the round.
Play your videogames any damn way you want. Don’t let anybody tell you there’s a right or wrong way to enjoy a single-player game. Today I took a strategy wargame and grew a forest. How will you play?
I just see the unmarked graves of hundreds of starved soldiers, cut off from their supply trains and left to parish.
In my defence, I only had to starve a dozen or so soldiers, probably all barons, while leaving one hex empty, and then just let nature take its course for a a lot of turns.
This makes it sound like I’m making an argument for (a) depopulation by starvation and then (b) waiting a long time to see if the Earth ever gets better!
Which I’m not, but left unchecked then climate change might make that decision for us anyway…