This war guy kind of reminds of how I played Oregon Trail as a kid. Load up on bullets and nothing else, kill 2000 lbs of meat (you could only carry 500 lbs back to the wagon), continue to depopulate wildlife until everyone in your party is dies of dysentery. He has roughly the same level of forethought, which doesn't bode well for the writing in this.
Imagine this but the grass and trees are white/grey because my school was to cheap to get the color monitors, then add two more dead buffalo, four deer, and a bear, then you'll get my Oregon Trail experience.
I loved that game, 2nd grade computer lab was fuckin' awesome.