Make games longer!

[Badger]

yes I like to use knoked out tanks for cover so I put men behind them, and move on to another part of the battlefield, when I come back to them the tank has disapeared and the men are probably dead or voulnrable. most annoying. Clear bodies but leave other stuff where it is.

[Prowlinger]

There is a reason for all this...

The reason they do not last forever is due to the game engine...
with SO many meshes in the game going all on all at once.. they have to clear them off for more to be send in reinforcements etc...

This is to keep the game playing very fast on non-brand-new computers.

yeah it would great to have every thing ever pile up.. but the game may get 85% slower in the process...

There are alot of small shortcuts and smart designs they have done in the engine to allow so many units going all at once...

Every unit and infantry is tied to sprites, fx and sounds... each consumes memory. Now if you have a 8gb 4 core system with a 1gb video card.. you probably could do this on a large battle and not clear the units/weapons but someone would have to try that and see what happens. I don't have a system beefy enough... (BUT it would be simple to mod it for SP)