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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amphimir Míriel" data-source="post: 4934950" data-attributes="member: 55933">No! In a 4E campaign, a large scale battle or a war takes exactly as long to end as required by the story, because it is just a narrative element.Only those characters that directly interact with the PCs need to be described in terms of level, role and stats.The 4E ruleset assumes that the DM is describing his world and only using the rules to adjudicate conflict. It does not pre-suppose that the rules describe the world for him.So, one more time, with feeling:The "4E world" doesn't have armies composed of 80% 1st level minions, 19% 3 level guards, and 1% minibosses.The 4E world, if such a thing exists, has armies clashing in the battlefield, trebuchets raining stones over battlements, maybe a dragon raining fire over screaming soldiers... This doesn't need rules to describe it.Only when the DM wants to "zoom in" into the actions of the PCs, does the people in the battlefield who are directly interacting with the PCs acquire stats.</blockquote>