Or; Those Who Don’t Learn From History are Doomed to Repeat It : RTS Edition
A LAN party-staple for a number of years was Warcraft 3 : The Frozen Throne. Apparently, there were some very popular mods for it but as that whole WWW-thing was in its nascency we just stuck with FFA. Out multi-tasking and micro-managing skills were a bit sub-par (read:non-existent) so most games followed a similar pattern. But occasionally, a cunning plan was able to get into the mix.