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[Sleeping Bear]

I've got a simple battlefield honor system in place. If it shoots at me, I shoot back. If you have the bad luck to be shooting at me in something that will explode when I shoot back, then that's your problem. Since water purifiers and air scrubbers don't shoot at me, then I think I will easily avoid war crimes trials pretty easily. Although I find the RoE of not engaging a unit until it engages me idiotic, I can live by it, as long as they don't ask me to go scout said unit.

The big thing that a previous poster stated is that I don't think at any time in our career will we be given the opportunity to violate any time of wartime conventions or conventions of civility. I mean what can a mechwarrior do?

Destroy a jumpship or jumpship factory, which are traditionally located orbitally, nope.
Destroy infrastructure neccessary for human continuation on objective planets, nope.
Deploy nuclear, biological, or weapons of mass destruction against civilian population centers, nope.

I believe that developers of the game won't allow us these options, so I think as mechwarriors, we won't have to take such heavy moral obligations in mind. Frankly I will stick to my initial battlefield moral code, fire when fired upon.

[Adrienne Vorton]

"Davey Crocket" he thought, "i believe i´ve heard that name before"...and then, suddenly, with upcoming panic in his eyes, he shouted into the microphone: " ATTENTION! Nukes on the field! Nukes on the field!!!"...(freely recited from Battletech "Ideal War")...