Unless the Delta is a massive community, numbering in the tens of thousands of people...
Take this with a grain of salt since the Commonwealth story is still unfolding in the comics (and TFS is 3 years ahead of the comics) so anything could happen but as it stands now, it's unlikely The Delta would be at war with the Commonwealth from the comics. The Commonwealth consists of over 50,000 people. Anyone the Commonwealth goes to war against would be crushed by overwhelming numbers unless they too were a massive community. Even with them kidnapping kids and forcing them to fight the Delta would already have to be large enough that the Commonwealth couldn't just steamroll over them.
Considering they only sent what, 6 people(?) to "recruit" all the kids at the school, I don't think The Delta is nearly large enough to be at war with a community like the Commonwealth. Granted, you could say they grossly underestimated Clem and the other kids but if they had the numbers necessary to hold off the Commonwealth they'd probably send a couple dozen people minimum when "recruiting" a group.
Realistically I think the Commonwealth is out but they might be at war with Rick's groups though. There's probably less than 1000 people combined among all Rick's allied settlements and they're spread out over 5 different settlements and they're all multiple days travel away from each other which would make them a lot easier to fight against.
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It all depends. Delta could be largely conformed by Military Personnel -given the name martial implications- and they could have access to military grade gear that could provide an edge against larger communities.
This would also make sense in the context of training Child-Soldiers: Delta more experienced fighters could pass their experience and make even more competent soldiers, which would explain why they pick them at a young age instead of recuit adults: They are more maleable. Both in mind and body.
Some people think it's Richmond, I'm still waiting for that conclusion that would "explain what happened to Javier and Richmond"
Honestly I’m surprised there are still 50k people left alive in the continental US to form a community at all
I don't understand why at this point in the apocalypse people would be wanting to wage community scale wars between each other.
lol dude it's not like humans are on the cusp of extinctions. The numbers took a huge hit and warring isn't helping but there's still A LOT left. I forget where I saw it but it was somewhere official like that said the world's population was reduced to around 2% of pre zombie levels. Even at only 2% of people still alive, that's 5.8 million in the US alone based on the 2003 US population of 290 million.
War is one of the oldest Human activities, even when we were not yet the Dominant species of the Planet.
As society regress, so do the motives of conflict, whicha re turn multiplied: Things like a good shelter, food stocks, bountiful land and fertile women are all scarce woods worth dying for in this new world
It's human nature. Our history is filled with war and fighting. I'd imagine a big part of it probably has a lot to do with power. 2 groups meet. There are 4 options.
Merge groups and the leadership of both shares power. (unlikely, especially if the groups have different power structures)
Merge groups and the leadership of one group relinquishes power to the other. (99.99999% chance that'd never happen)
The leadership of both groups refuse to share or relinquish power and eventually they end up fighting.
The fourth option is the groups remain separate groups but they cooperate with one another. The problem is if they're too close to each other they begin actively competing for resources which can spark conflict and potentially a full scale war.
Driving your own species into extinction from self destruction is an extremely ignorant and destructive mentality to have even if war is "human nature" even in the most heated tensions of war throughout human history, we've at least tried to defuse the tension to guarantee mutual survival.
The only thing that'll come from this war is either mutual guaranteed destruction of both communities resulting in fatal loss of both sides or dwindling both sides down to a weakened state far less capable and vulnerable then before.
You didn't really pay attention in history class, did you? History is filled with cases of "kill them all" where entire cities (when city states were a thing) were razed and all the people either killed or enslaved. Human nature is violent and stupid and greedy. Human nature pushes people to see nothing past what's right in front of them. It's why in modern times you have corporations who'd rather continue destroying the ecosystem and likely doom future generations to miserable existences and possibly extinction in exchange for as much profit as possible today. They'd rather doom humanity than make a few less dollars because, like violence, greed is human nature, and greed has led to many many wars.
It's such lazy writing from Telltale.
They could have done something interesting.
What Chibikid is saying human beings are geared towards altruism in the face of immediate survival, not more war.
In TWD it appears as though human beings have a gene for self-destruction.
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The commonwealth’s soldiers don’t have much experience fighting against humans from what we’ve seen so far. Only a few issues ago, princess, a young latina, beat up a bunch of them on her own in melee combat.
Do you think the Delta has Chinese restaurants?
I hope not for Rosie's sake