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Originally Posted by mikemil828

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Considering that they promptly slaughtered the fort's remaining defenders, they probably didn't do it to prevent spillage of blood, but rather to destroy the enemy's ability to fight, without supplies they will have make a hasty retreat home and wait to get resupplied, which is really the only way that Hakuoro could fight a much larger force at this point.

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Reminder of my motto: "Information warfare > Logistics warfare > Tactical warfare"

Hmm, I guess it would be impossible to hit at the Logistics level no matter how many of their own soldiers they sacrificed, considering positioning and superior enemy numbers. They did need a second fort to pin down that large force afterall. Still, my point was that it's better for Hakuoro's price to be an inanimate fort rather than a large portion of his army to pull off this attack - reputation-wise that'll go down better.