Things is, a lot of the things war rules are against is actually tactically sound.
Hospitals saves people who would fight you again. Civilians are potential soldiers.
They exist because the goal of most wars are to conquer with long term peace or establish peace. That’s hard to do if they people you fight or conquer thinks of you as a monster. Thing is, both sides seems to be set on eradicating the enemy.
Not co-existance, but annihilation. No enemy left to rule over.
As for tactical advantage, the night elves are a powerful faction. Burning their capital and the civilians within severly weakens them, but stokes their hatred… but that’s not a problem in this context.
Sylvanas is not a good person. Far from it. She is as brutal as war itself.
If she is evil then war is evil. Maybe everyone is evil? Or maybe it’s not that easy?
The difference between her and Garrosh is that she’s so far not trying to kill everyone but her own race and make the horde only forsaken.
No it wasn’t. The war was perpetrated by the Alliance, yet again.
Just like it was perpetrated in cataclysm when they reached their forces all their way to the barrens.
None of the conflicts which the Horde has been continuously been branded as the bad guys actually started from the Horde.
The fundamental difference is you can fight a war without holding onto practices that maybe considered evil. Sylvanas could have occupied Darnassus, she could have given the people time to evacuate and then destroyed it. The problem is she didn’t. She had an impulse reaction of simply “Burn it!” meaning she didn’t give a damn who was still in the city soldier, man, woman or child.
Please explain how the Alliance perpetrated this war? When at the very start of it King Anduin Wrynn reached out to Sylvanas to establish a formal peace between the two?
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What are you even talking about?
The letter sent by Anduin SPECIFICALLY states that he is very much aware peace is impossible from both sides.
And it was the Alliance who committed an act of agression first. Both before BfA and during Legion.
What you don’t see to grasp is that Sylvanas mindset is this: victory as swiftly and efficently as possible, whatever it takes. There comes a point where a war has gone on for so long, had costed so much, and would cost so much more that mercy is just off the table. This in itself makes a person as evil as war is.
And a proof of that statement?
Lol…you do realise that letter was sent at the very end of Before the Storm. AFTER Sylvanas had already massacred her own people in the Arathi Highlands and Anduin had reached out for a formal peace. I am talking way before this, you know while Sylvanas was already plotting to destroy Stormwind.
Erm…lore? Greymane first and goblin miners massacre second?
So the letter planning the Arathi Highlands gathering happened after the Arathi Highlands gathering…
What a bunch of balls…
Plotting does not qualify as an act in terms of agression.
Under that pretense an act of war would be that we have SI:7 in our cities 24/7 apparently whenever it suits blizzard.
What letter are you on about? The one he sends to Sylvanas? The only time I can find he thinks peace is impossible is AFTER the events of Arathi, where Sylvanas has already massacred her own people. Why the heck would he agree to meet her if there was no chance of peace?
In any case it is a mute point Sylvanas started this war. You could argue that the Genn and the Goblin incidents were a contributor to her decision but it was her who started full scale open warfare.
Oh and one more thing ‘Anduin enacts a desperate plan aimed at forging a lasting peace between the factions’. That is what is on the back cover of the book.
SI: 7 were not plotting to destroy the city though. Sylvanas was. And of course it counts as an act of aggression. Someone is planning to destroy your city, how the heck else are they supposed to act?
Erm… Lore? Again, read “A Good War” short story.
Whole goblin mass mining of Azerite was to lure out the only Alliance force in Kalimdor to Silythus. Away from Teldrasil.
And the whole Greymane / Sylvanas skirmishes in Stormheim were just that - skirmishes.
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Oh right, forgot that “skirmishes” initiated during a period of ceasefire are excused if you are the Alliance.
You heard it here first people. The Alliance can’t start wars.
I guess Varian reaching the doorsteps of Orgrimmar in Cataclysm was also “skirmishes” and it was Garrosh’s fault for retaliating, right?
Really depends what you think is evil. If Sylvanas kills your mom and dad, your siblings, your girlfriend, your friends, and the squirrel in the backyard, do you think it evil? Or will you think she is a good person? That’s honestly up to you. General opinion on evil would agree that she is evil, however.
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You’re kidding right? Attempted murder of the horde warchief is a skirmish? Get real
She reminds me of a Bond Villain, they think they are doing the right thing but it is in fact evil.
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That is a good question, seeing as how the only side with a WQ to kill medics and the injured is the Alliance. Seems Jaina was right, “we all have blood on our hands”.
Lets be real here, she is best character in game… but blizz bad writting in BfA destroyed her.