If you play just about any other real-time strategy game for a few hours, you'll quickly realize that the 'strategy' is typically comprised of building up a huge wave of troops to simply overwhelm your enemy through sheer weight of numbers. While that was once considered to be an ideal strategy, it's been shown to be not as effective as it once was. Also, watching it be executed in a game gets really old, really fast. Warcraft III forces the player to use something resembling actual military tactics due to the low cap on the maximum number of units. Properly utilizing, protecting, and replacing your troops in Warcraft III is vital to achieve success. Combined arms (mixing land-to-land, air-to-land, and air-to-air in groups) tactics are important due to distinct advantages some units have over others.