Sure, I grew up on those games and have thousands of hours in the Total War series. You can learn some general principles from games because it illustrates them

Sure, I grew up on those games and have thousands of hours in the Total War series. You can learn some general principles from games because it illustrates them pretty well. But they are also fundamentally distant from reality because they cannot simulate anything like the real dynamics and physical characteristics of historic and current-day combat. Even micro things like how human beings move or communicate tends to be profoundly different in real life despite the visual fidelity games are sometimes capable of.