Your not stupid --- i've been playing war games since i was a wee one - and being in the real military for 12 years -- you sort of get to know tactics.....or die by them <VBG>

Good book to read is Sun Tzu's "Art of War" -- you would be suprised on what it can teach - even though it was written a very - very - long time ago.....(2400 odd years or so)

here's a link to an online copy... http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm

"Make War and Peace will follow"