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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 1282688" data-attributes="member: 1211">IMC:Elves dont go on offensive wars. Their homelands are so well protected that they dont have the need to use preemptive strikes and they have no interrest in conquest.The dwarves fight their wars underground against the blackbloods (orcs, goblinoids, ogres and trolls) and those wars are about extermination. So no raping, but pillaging and going Mongolian black earth on the blackbloods.The blackbloods pillage, rape and enslave and they do much of all three. They treat their slaves the way the prisoners in GULAG were treated so they dont last for long. As blackbloods hate to work, they soon attack again for new slaves.The customs of humans vary much with culture and leaders. Barbarian cultures or "civilized" cultures doing raids pillage, kill, rape and burn whenever possible. This is the usual way of doing it; sometimes they only pillage or burn, but mostly it goes like that.In wars in the civilized lands it may vary. Many generals use a organised form of pillaging where they put heavy "taxes" on the locals but dont steal all the food they can get, for example. This makes sure (often) that the locals dont starve or run away from their homes and so makes it possible for an army to stay longer in an area then it would otherwise be possible. If the army needs it though, they will starve the local population. This is for food.Pillaging for valuables is another matter. Generally it is seen as a payment for the soldiers (and officers) and it is seldom a leader would stop his men from looting. The exceptions would be if a leader in exile returns to his homelands to take them back; in that case, the leader wants the goodwill of his former subjects and tries to avoid looting.Rape, though, is something that is done in three circumstances; 1) the leader wants to break the local population and "rewarding" the soldiers at the same time. 2) The leader dont care about the population and just lets the soldiers do what they want. 3) The leader has a weak control of his soldiers and arent able to stop them.The moral of the individual leader is an important part of the loot, rape and burn routine; some leaders consider themselves men of moral standing and therefore impose strict rules on their soldiers. Others are bothered of the faith of their souls and therefore impose strict rules.If someone would rape, loot or burn despite the order of a leader the punishment involves a sufficiently high tree and some rope; an army of thousands of men are dangerous to the leader as well to his enemies and if he doesnt uphold strict discipline his days are counted.</blockquote>

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