Civilians also impose tactical burdens. I mean, if you're overrunning a country, those losers choke the roads and waste precious petrol that could be powering your tanks.
You could drive over 'em in your Tiger, or you could be a soft-hearted weakling about it.
We need civilians to test the mettle of the man, to determine how goal-oriented they are, and to weed out the soft, the sentimental, the weak...
I also think we should make it possible to commit atrocities in the game. After all, how else to punish those who collaborated after the enemy overran your base?
Now that'th a Thuper Wish - Thuper Dooper! How about I herd your civilians into a pen and gun them down, then collect their heads and drop them on your base from a B-17? How do vee feel about der sonderwunsch now?