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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 308020" data-attributes="member: 1645"><p>So, against their 350,000 elite human heavy infantry and auxiliaries, we're supposed to pit our ~150,000 humans, hobgoblins, and assorted monsters. Let's look at our strengths and weaknesses.</p><p></p><p>Our Wang-Liang are effectively Trolls that can turn invisible or disguise themselves. That is, they're big, strong, and immune to most attacks (except fire and acid). I'd love to be able to send Wang-Liang skirmishers against mundane heavy infantry. They can do some damage, withdraw -- with some dead foes for "rations" -- come back fresh, and so on. They can also ambush quite effectively, using their invisibility. Perhaps they can even disguise themselves and infiltrate a camp that doesn't have much magical support. We can't risk Fireballs and Flame Strikes though. Disguised as mundane Ogres, the Wang-Liang might not draw so much fire.</p><p></p><p>The Vampires have many stengths and at least a few obvious weaknesses. Vampires and their spawn are, of course, vulnerable to sunlight and to Clerical magic, but they have an amazing capacity for spawning more of their kind -- particularly in the short term, since they "spawn" quickly and won't run out of "food" in the time frame of this military campaign. The two nearby cities might find their "noncombatants" (women and old men) quickly conscripted into the Midnight Legions. Also, Vampires don't have to advertise their nature. Armed as soldiers, adult, male Vampires should blend in fine (during a night attack).</p><p></p><p>The Werewolves, as lycanthropes, don't "spawn" as quickly and effectively as the Vampires. Perhaps they can use their curse behind enemy lines or in guerrilla skirmishes -- the high-level Clerics can't be everywhere -- but they don't end up with powerful slaves. In the vast forests, they should make good scouts and quasi-cavalry, and they may have enough wolves there to command as auxiliaries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 308020, member: 1645"] So, against their 350,000 elite human heavy infantry and auxiliaries, we're supposed to pit our ~150,000 humans, hobgoblins, and assorted monsters. Let's look at our strengths and weaknesses. Our Wang-Liang are effectively Trolls that can turn invisible or disguise themselves. That is, they're big, strong, and immune to most attacks (except fire and acid). I'd love to be able to send Wang-Liang skirmishers against mundane heavy infantry. They can do some damage, withdraw -- with some dead foes for "rations" -- come back fresh, and so on. They can also ambush quite effectively, using their invisibility. Perhaps they can even disguise themselves and infiltrate a camp that doesn't have much magical support. We can't risk Fireballs and Flame Strikes though. Disguised as mundane Ogres, the Wang-Liang might not draw so much fire. The Vampires have many stengths and at least a few obvious weaknesses. Vampires and their spawn are, of course, vulnerable to sunlight and to Clerical magic, but they have an amazing capacity for spawning more of their kind -- particularly in the short term, since they "spawn" quickly and won't run out of "food" in the time frame of this military campaign. The two nearby cities might find their "noncombatants" (women and old men) quickly conscripted into the Midnight Legions. Also, Vampires don't have to advertise their nature. Armed as soldiers, adult, male Vampires should blend in fine (during a night attack). The Werewolves, as lycanthropes, don't "spawn" as quickly and effectively as the Vampires. Perhaps they can use their curse behind enemy lines or in guerrilla skirmishes -- the high-level Clerics can't be everywhere -- but they don't end up with powerful slaves. In the vast forests, they should make good scouts and quasi-cavalry, and they may have enough wolves there to command as auxiliaries. [/QUOTE]
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