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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
That depends on how brutal you are, if you just kill 60 or 70 million right off the bat the rest tend to quiet down after that
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But at that point, what are you even conquering? The charred remains of a great civilization that now requires extensive support just to survive? The point of conquest is to gain resources, not drain them. Spending a huge amount of resources to conquer something that no longer has value? That empire is going broke and imploding inside of a week. The roman empire largely collapsed just from having a lack of new easy land to conquer. The ideal method of conquering is having a tiny force that can control a huge population (ideally unarmed), anything more that than that quickly becomes too expensive to maintain. Every brutal dictatorship starts with stripping the citizens of their ability to defend themselves.