Talk:Victory/@comment-194.39.44.128-20200127141725/@comment-5157002-20200127195930

Essentially, "defeat all enemies" is a basic, underlying objective that applies to all AoE1 scenarios, and most scenarios in AoE2.

I know it's possible to deactivate it when you're developing a scenario in AoE2 (the player doesn't win in Reign of Blood when all enemies are defeated), but I'm not sure this is technically possible in AoE1; I can't remember a single scenario where you can keep playing after defeating all enemies.

So the short answer is: technical limitation.