Talk:Petard (Age of Empires II)/@comment-178.66.127.190-20191112231229/@comment-2607:FEA8:7D5F:F410:A086:F5C8:E2B:C3B1-20200107044807

Historically, the job was considered near suicidal because of the nature of how dangerous the job (close to enemy lines, volatile explosives, poor conditions etc). The suicide part in AoE 2 seems to be a nod to that fact.