Just listened to this episode. My best memories are back in Civ II when I would pick a civilization just based on the color of their units/text. I think I was always picking the Spanish and renaming "The Arabs" (hey, I was 12).
I distinctly remember one day my family took me to a civil war battlefield and we were walking the grounds and trying to understand the fortifications and their impact on movement. That's when I realized how the zones of control in Civ 2 actually were supposed to work and why they could stop me cold when the AI had a wellplaced spearmen in a mountain even when I just wanted to walk around it. This was a difficult concept for a 12 year old to grasp.
