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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 100933" data-attributes="member: 158">I echo Dareoon's sentiments. It's sometimes fun to play out PC's involved in a skirmish, but if those PC's are instead leaders of the armies, then I want to see what effect THEIR actions have on the battle. It's not enough to &quot;flip a coin and let the PC's fight&quot;; they (and I) want to have a strategic way to determine the outcome of a battle by applying successful management and maneuvers to carry the day. They actually have a role in winning a battle, rather than making it a &quot;war saving throw.&quot;At the least, AEG's War allows there to be a marginof victory. But what I want to see is a resolution that evolves into &quot;Stellar Victory,&quot; &quot;Victory with small losses&quot;, &quot;Pyrrhic Victory&quot; &quot;Retreat and Loss,&quot; &quot;Rout&quot;, and finally &quot;Absolute loss of army.&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It needs to be modified by such things as caliber of troops, maneuvers performed by the commanders, and stupid luck rolls - those things that you can never predict about a battle, such as duststorms, inclement weather which drastically reduces both artillery and mounted cavalry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 100933, member: 158"] I echo Dareoon's sentiments. It's sometimes fun to play out PC's involved in a skirmish, but if those PC's are instead leaders of the armies, then I want to see what effect THEIR actions have on the battle. It's not enough to "flip a coin and let the PC's fight"; they (and I) want to have a strategic way to determine the outcome of a battle by applying successful management and maneuvers to carry the day. They actually have a role in winning a battle, rather than making it a "war saving throw." At the least, AEG's [i]War[/i] allows there to be a marginof victory. But what I want to see is a resolution that evolves into "Stellar Victory," "Victory with small losses", "Pyrrhic Victory" "Retreat and Loss," "Rout", and finally "Absolute loss of army." :) It needs to be modified by such things as caliber of troops, maneuvers performed by the commanders, and stupid luck rolls - those things that you can never predict about a battle, such as duststorms, inclement weather which drastically reduces both artillery and mounted cavalry. [/QUOTE]

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