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<blockquote data-quote="bramadan" data-source="post: 52783" data-attributes="member: 1064">Romans throughout most of their glory days did not do either (unless ordered). But they had infrastructure to support them. Medieval armies kind of have to (at least plunder) in order to survive but even here things were not so bad throughout middle ages as they became during the wars of religion.It is only with the rise of Mercenary as the preeminent military unit and with lifting of religious inhibitions that situations such as &quot;rape of magdeburg&quot; could occur. To answer your question: Largely not. I play a Birthright game and armies of anuire are fairly small, well discipined and infrastructure is good. They all share common faith and know that they will have to live by each other after the war. Battles are largely proffesional events of which peasants sometimes never even learn the outcome. On the other hand my other campaign was set in the decaying days of Great Kingdom in Greyhawk all moral and societal norms were unravelling and armies were huge and discipline nil. - Players were quite depressed when I was desribing the countryside to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bramadan, post: 52783, member: 1064"] Romans throughout most of their glory days did not do either (unless ordered). But they had infrastructure to support them. Medieval armies kind of have to (at least plunder) in order to survive but even here things were not so bad throughout middle ages as they became during the wars of religion. It is only with the rise of Mercenary as the preeminent military unit and with lifting of religious inhibitions that situations such as "rape of magdeburg" could occur. To answer your question: Largely not. I play a Birthright game and armies of anuire are fairly small, well discipined and infrastructure is good. They all share common faith and know that they will have to live by each other after the war. Battles are largely proffesional events of which peasants sometimes never even learn the outcome. On the other hand my other campaign was set in the decaying days of Great Kingdom in Greyhawk all moral and societal norms were unravelling and armies were huge and discipline nil. - Players were quite depressed when I was desribing the countryside to them. [/QUOTE]

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