How many halflings does it take to screw in a lightbulb

[SethDrebitko]

Oh just got the thought of North Korean style halfling tunnel networks.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh just got the thought of North Korean style halfling tunnel networks.

Pill Boxes, tanks and trenches do come to mind.

 

[Mark CMG]

"How many halflings does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

Two, but it takes three novels while in one sentence it could be done by an eagle. Just saying.

 

[Sunseeker]

The same way any war is won. Numbers. Guerrilla tactics are great when you know your terrain, they are generally defensive tactics fought on your home turf against an invading force. They are not generally the means of conquest, unless your attempting to liberate another force that will then be fighting on their home turf.

So, traditionally, wars were won with numbers and range. Since a halfling is going to be at a disadvatnage toe-to-toe with another solider, they'll want to eliminate that soldier before they have to fight them head on. I suspect a halfling army would employ a great deal of artillery, along with terrain hazards in order to slow their enemy down and destroy them from a distance. Their biggest problem is really going to be the fact that they're using non-standard size weapons. I'd wager their tactics would involve a lot of setting up a defensive point and holding luring in the enemy. Only a significantly superior force could overcome it...think Normandy.

Otherwise, outside of attrition warfare, halfling empires would employ a great many assassins.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'll be more specific. Halfling soldiers cannot effectively go toe-to-toe with other soldiers without magic and heavy support, which average soldiers in an infantry battle probably won't have.

Fiddle-faddle. Halflings can go toe-to-toe with anything that walks. They can also go face to groin with other medium sized creatures, and face to kneecaps with large size bipeds.

From a combat perspective, think of them as well-supplied kobolds. No one expects the Halfling Inquisition!

 

[Razjah]

Fiddle-faddle. Halflings can go toe-to-toe with anything that walks. They can also go face to groin with other medium sized creatures, and face to kneecaps with large size bipeds.

From a combat perspective, think of them as well-supplied kobolds. No one expects the Halfling Inquisition!

Outside of things like Tucker's Kobolds and other elaborate plans, the halflings will fare similarly- cannon fodder. If the average soldier is a 1st level warrior, the halflings will struggle in open combat. They would excel as auxiliaries to human or dwarven armies as light cavalry and crossbow troops. But infantry? The strength penalty and smaller weapons would cause serious problems.

But, if the halflings breed like kobolds and use overwhelming odds- you can have a halfling Zerg rush. Since they can fit closer together than medium sized creatures, it is possible to have more haflings attack a position than the defenders can reasonably deal with. 100 halflings swarming a hill, each armed with twin handaxes would be an unnerving sight. If you remove their capacity for two handed weapons and ditch the weapon size loss, I can see halflings being a feared infantry formation.

 

[jasper]

one to trick the human to do for him.

 

[El Mahdi]

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