Red Cross says War Games should be bound by the Geneva convention

[Ideologue]

In some seriousness, I do kinda wish that EU2 didn't make narrowminded and serfdom so attractive.  Low stab costs and an unbeatable army?  Sure, that sounds like Russia to me.

[Josquius]

Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

[Kleves]

Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

Call of Duty had a level where the player murdered civilians, didn't it? Though I think they were Russians, so maybe it doesn't count.

[Syt]

I've used AA guns as antipersonnel weapons.

Company of Heroes is great with the meat chopper and the Wirblewind.

CROSS MY LINE OF SIGHT? POW POW POW POW!

For some reason I read that as "Company of Herpes", but that would probably be better suited for a sim about Japanese frontline brothels.

[fhdz]

Call of Duty had a level where the player murdered civilians, didn't it? Though I think they were Russians, so maybe it doesn't count.

[Syt]

Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

Call of Duty had a level where the player murdered civilians, didn't it? Though I think they were Russians, so maybe it doesn't count.

You didn't have to actively participate, and the game gave you the option to skip that level.

[Ideologue]

Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

Call of Duty had a level where the player murdered civilians, didn't it? Though I think they were Russians, so maybe it doesn't count.

Killing civilians at ground level is morally wrong.

[The Brain]

Any good source, Tim?

[CountDeMoney]

I wonder about those 1.6 million Soviet prisoners I've taken in War in the East. Are they in little tiny pixel POW camps? Have they been shot by my pixel SS units? Are those 'Labor Squads' in my units full of pixel Polish prisoners?

What about the occupation of Soviet cities? Are there pixel Eitzentruppen shooting  pixel commissars and pixel jews?

That's how fahdiz plays.

[Drakken]

Surely player characters do tend to obey the Geneva convention?
I can't off the topic of my head think of any games where the PC has to shoot prisoners or the like, its always the evil villains doing that sort of thing.

You could execute prisoners in M:TW, with a zany sound of people dying with their throats slit.

[Admiral Yi]

In Close Combat I think you could kill POWs through area fire.

[Drakken]

WITE is pretty much played with the understanding that the Geneva Convention books have been thrown in a ditch somewhere on the Russian-Polish border. 

[The Brain]

Denying the Holocaust is illegal in some countries so WW2 games are already legally required to have small Jew counters being redeployed to Poland, staying for one turn and then being replaced by a Fillings counter.

[Razgovory]

I've used AA guns as antipersonnel weapons.

Company of Heroes is great with the meat chopper and the Wirblewind.

CROSS MY LINE OF SIGHT? POW POW POW POW!

You can also gun down medics.  The AI won't normally target them, but you can manual aim at them.  You will automatically blow up aid stations though.

But yeah, I love using the Quad .50 as a base of fire.  It also works as a reinforcement point so you'll have a ton of soldiers hanging around it as you roll into an enemy base.

[hotshot]

Rolling over people with tanks:  Good fun.

Or not.