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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4930111" data-attributes="member: 58197">And the troops would be in close order... why, exactly? If armies face this sort of threat on a regular basis, they'd be trained to spread out. At that point you'll be killing maybe 4 or 5 per fireball.There are problems with these tactics, but the real kicker is this. All it takes is a single enemy wizard you didn't know was there, with see invisibility active and dispel magic prepared... and suddenly your protective spells are stripped away and you're plummeting right into the middle of a hostile army, through a storm of arrows from 500 archers with readied actions. 20d6 falling damage plus 25d8 arrow damage (assuming they hit on a 20) averages 182 points of damage before you have a chance to re-cast any of your buffs. Very few wizards can survive that kind of punishment.How many high-level wizards are willing to take that risk? How many armies are willing to risk their high-level wizards that way? Especially when you consider there are far better ways to use them.</blockquote>