When I play Age of Empires I always focus on killing villagers, because they're the ones chopping the wood, farming and building the barracks. Killing villagers reduces the foundation that a military stands on and you can essentially starve it out that way.
In real life, states are able to field a military because they tax the populace and get civilian manufacturing companies to handle the supply and logistics of fielding a military. So I would much rather bomb a ball bearing factory or destroy an oilfield than a military base. Then you can just wait it out.
Because then the enemy does the same and people start dying for no reason It's like pandora's box, don't open it. Show mercy, or else you won't be shown any mercy either.
Charles Nguyen
>real life is just like video games you guys
kys
Hudson Richardson
thats a barracks sweaty
Dylan Ramirez
>thats a barracks sweaty
No barracks, no legion sweaty.
Leo Ross
because annoying cunts on twitter will complain
Sebastian Turner
In this case, yes.
Aaron Lee
Because you're not trying to occupy an area, you're trying to level it. You also don't have to care what the area is like for the next 20 years.
Eli Roberts
>why is killing harmless people bad? >muh vidya tho kys
Gavin Allen
The joke is Lost in Ages.
Bentley Hughes
Isn’t this just what total war is?
Jaxson Williams
npcs are eminently capturable so destroying the factories destroys potential future production of your own
>may your penis rot and fall back onto the earth to be consumed by worms >f4gg0t
Jacob Davis
because our weapons have become so advanced that it's impossible to defend a populace from foreign attacks.
I.e. any war will immediately cause the death of all the civilians on both sides
Anthony Evans
Reminder: throughout History, raiding/killing/raping civilians makes up the VAST majority of military operations. Set-piece battles are aberrations.
Owen Morgan
Wololo
Ay a o yo
Leo Bailey
It's true, but if you kill all the civilians then what's the point? You take the territory but now it's useless. The population who lived in it are dead and the infrastructure survived. You win the war but gain nothing.
Michael King
"Ethics" in war is a fucking meme. Think the germans feel real good about their decision to not use gas in WW2? You destroy your enemy any fucking way you can otherwise you get your shit pushed in, and that's not very fun
Jackson Rogers
A good question leaf. You should totally go fight the russians in ukraine. It's just like in your videogames.
Leo Martinez
I mean, war is already wrong. What if you could win it faster and with fewer casualties on both sides if you destroyed civilian suppliers instead of directly fighting the fully armed, high morale enemy armed forces? A humanitarian in this case would spill more blood as a result.
Jace Perry
So why not killing children? That's manufacturing future warriors.
Charles Gray
>survived *DESTROYED For fucks sake.
Ryder Edwards
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Anthony Martinez
you are right. someone should definitely drop a bomb on you.
Leo Bailey
Strategic bombing was shown to be mainly ineffective in ww2
>So I would much rather bomb a ball bearing factory or destroy an oilfield than a military base. That's literally what armies in war will do.
Ethan Baker
Because when you win in Age of Empires the game ends and you don't have to worry about the armed revolts and civil unrest your human rights abuses will cause for the next century.
Colton Thomas
no, total war and age of empires are different games
