I know this idea's been proposed before, but I though it'd be better re-introduce it instead of necro a 4 year old topic.
The idea is pretty much self-explanatory. When you launch a rocket on a city or province, the news usually just states the damaged buildings and troop casualties, no one gives a s*** about the poor civilians who suffer the most in the process. Usually civilians are just there to state how big a city is, but civilians are the most important element in any war. Who do you think makes the shells for your artillery? where do you think you get all that metal from, I don't think oil produces itself. Who keeps you troops well-fed and happy? The poor farmer who's house just got destroyed by a rocket does. While people cry because their 50-troop stack got nuked, millions of civilians living in the same city probably died too, and somehow that doesn't affect the countries morale or how the A.I. looks at the terrible country that did it. My proposal is add morale penalties to a country based on their civilian death count. And decrease a countries popularity with the A.I. based on the amount of civilians they kill. The amount of civilians a unit kills should depend on their strategic (building-based) damage value. A level 1 infantry has a strategic value of 0.5, so normally it wouldn't kill as many civilians.Strategic bombers of the same level have a strategic value of 7, which means it kills three and a half times more civilians than infantry. A lvl. 2 rocket has a strategic value of 50, which means it would kill one hundred times more civilians than an infantry does. A nuclear rocket would kill 50% of the population. A.I. popularity would decrease the more civilians you kill. Let's for example image a scenario between France and Italy. France is winning the war and using rockets, while Italy is losing and is getting devastated by France's rocket barrages. France killed nearly 50,000 civilians in one huge barrage, Italy's morale is suffering due to the casualties while France hides the hideous act from their people (no morale penalty for them). France's neighboring country, Belgium, notices however, and attacks because France forgets to notice they're the most hated country by the A.I.
The idea is pretty much self-explanatory. When you launch a rocket on a city or province, the news usually just states the damaged buildings and troop casualties, no one gives a s*** about the poor civilians who suffer the most in the process. Usually civilians are just there to state how big a city is, but civilians are the most important element in any war. Who do you think makes the shells for your artillery? where do you think you get all that metal from, I don't think oil produces itself. Who keeps you troops well-fed and happy? The poor farmer who's house just got destroyed by a rocket does. While people cry because their 50-troop stack got nuked, millions of civilians living in the same city probably died too, and somehow that doesn't affect the countries morale or how the A.I. looks at the terrible country that did it. My proposal is add morale penalties to a country based on their civilian death count. And decrease a countries popularity with the A.I. based on the amount of civilians they kill. The amount of civilians a unit kills should depend on their strategic (building-based) damage value. A level 1 infantry has a strategic value of 0.5, so normally it wouldn't kill as many civilians.Strategic bombers of the same level have a strategic value of 7, which means it kills three and a half times more civilians than infantry. A lvl. 2 rocket has a strategic value of 50, which means it would kill one hundred times more civilians than an infantry does. A nuclear rocket would kill 50% of the population. A.I. popularity would decrease the more civilians you kill. Let's for example image a scenario between France and Italy. France is winning the war and using rockets, while Italy is losing and is getting devastated by France's rocket barrages. France killed nearly 50,000 civilians in one huge barrage, Italy's morale is suffering due to the casualties while France hides the hideous act from their people (no morale penalty for them). France's neighboring country, Belgium, notices however, and attacks because France forgets to notice they're the most hated country by the A.I.
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." -Sun Tzu
- Leading officer of the Training Alliance
- Leading officer of the Training Alliance
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