You will see the real-time results of your resource management decisions. As you move through time you will be able to apply new technology to advance the state of buildings, weapons, tools, and ships. Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat.
Victory is a thing of action.
It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. Flight to Arras, ch.