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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6165580" data-attributes="member: 5868">Still not meaningful in an army context.&nbsp; Meteor Swarm does, at worst, 12d6 damage to 256 (80x80 square, neglecting the reduced area for a burst) medium-sized creatures once per day, assuming they all clustered up together.&nbsp; That's not meaningful attrition to a medieval-style army (even assuming it's not a D&amp;D army with its own spellcasters) that could take 10x those casualties in a single day's engagement.&nbsp; It's really a waste against normal soldiers who might have what, 10 hp each?&nbsp; The impact of the spell can be dramatically reduced by dispersing your units, too.[Edit: By that logic, modern armies should have been rendered irrelevant with the introduction of multiple-launch rocket systems, which can deliver payloads 40-50km and destroy entire square kilometers, and fire many more times than once in a day.&nbsp; Doesn't work that way in the real world, and wouldn't work that way in the fantasy world as well.&nbsp; Wizards are *supposed* to be artillery.]Would it be annoying, in a guerilla warfare context?&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; But it's not a war-winner by itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 6165580, member: 5868"] Still not meaningful in an army context. Meteor Swarm does, at worst, 12d6 damage to 256 (80x80 square, neglecting the reduced area for a burst) medium-sized creatures once per day, assuming they all clustered up together. That's not meaningful attrition to a medieval-style army (even assuming it's not a D&D army with its own spellcasters) that could take 10x those casualties in a single day's engagement. It's really a waste against normal soldiers who might have what, 10 hp each? The impact of the spell can be dramatically reduced by dispersing your units, too. [Edit: By that logic, modern armies should have been rendered irrelevant with the introduction of multiple-launch rocket systems, which can deliver payloads 40-50km and destroy entire square kilometers, and fire many more times than once in a day. Doesn't work that way in the real world, and wouldn't work that way in the fantasy world as well. Wizards are *supposed* to be artillery.] Would it be annoying, in a guerilla warfare context? Absolutely. But it's not a war-winner by itself. [/QUOTE]

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