Eliminating a scorched earther=poor sportsmanship

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Ulf said:
i dont have the game yet. but from my point of view, from other games, i would rather say a scorched earth player is the bad mannered one.
i think it is bad mannered to delay and weaken a clear winner without having any chance to win yourself. pillaging your provinces so he doesnt get good ones looks like a poor revenge for me.

Eh, I don't like the tactics, but there are parallels in real life (Vlad the Impaler, for example). This is, technically, a war game. And I don't remember anyone coming up with a Geneva convention for this thing, so in my mind, anything goes. If the guy wants to destroy his nation so it's no good to you, all you can do is try to take it before he can complete the job. Poor sportsmanship? Maybe. But if his back is up against the wall and he has no hope, how can you really blame him?