Civilian People

[prime ravine]

A nice additional feature would be the ability to set them to engage with small arms when certain conditions are met so they appeared unarmed and then pull a gun out and shoot, this would be great for mission where an insurgency is used. There could be humanitarian civilian rescue missions, mission where you have to avoid civilian casualties, etc.

[scarlet mauve]

yeaaah genocide

[prime ravine]

Is that the kind of missions you make?

[wild umbra]

missions for warcrime enthusiasts

[scarlet mauve]

nah

[prime ravine]

I'm sure some war crime missions would be made with this but plenty of legitimate missions would be made as well. You can already make a mission where you use troops that don't engage as civilian stand-ins and frame the mission as a war crime in the brief anyway

[plucky tapir]

Unfortunately war crimes are just a part of war
Good thing this is a war sim!!! Yippee!!

For real though, it's a valid suggestion

I like the point about the rescue missions too

Protecting a high profile individual from a bunch of attackers or something like that would be an interesting mission

The whole "war crime" thing already was going to happen (and is happening), civilian units or not

There's the twin towers map that all the edgy 12 year olds join and play religiously, for example

[cursive sable]

I'm all for Civilians that don't shoot back, and fail the mission if you attack them.