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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1767 days ago
Hunting down a retreating enemy has always been a bad war tactic.

The only thing it can accomplish is creating additional casualties on your side, and you gain no additional turf.

Killing them while they're trying to retreat just makes them turn around and start shooting back, because if they're going to die no matter what, they might as well go down in a blaze of glory.