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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 671043" data-attributes="member: 63">Though no doubt the Gnomish Industrial Revolution threads already did something like this years ago, I want to perform a thought experiment, and I need the help of lots of people to pull this off properly.I was inspired by another thread on this board (<a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39669" target="_blank">Are armies any good?</a>) to start wondering how a D&D fantasy army would be trained and equipped.  With all the critters they have to face, and high level NPCs they'd have to fight, we have to wonder how they manage.So what I plan to do is run an arms race.  We're going to start with a few basic tactics of primitive people in a fantasy world, and slowly develop counter-tactics and counter-counter-tactics, plus new technologies and magic to combat current tactics.  I need a lot of people to help out so we'll have a wide base of ideas to pick from, with the ultimate result that we'll have a very diverse battlefield.  Some ground rules.  We're going to go in rounds, starting with a simple tactic and getting ideas until we think we have some nice ways to defeat the initial tactic.  Then the round will end, and I'll post a new round with a clearly detailed set of tactics that we have to beat again.  For the first round, characters will be a maximum of 1st level, so you can't say "I train my sorcerers to fireball the enemy."  That won't come until at least the 5th or 6th round.  There'll be two or more 'sides' in each round, and though you can think of tactics for whatever side you want, you should make sure to specify which side you're posting the idea for.Also, we're going to assume people are in general low level.  There will eventually be some higher-level people on each side, and eventually we will have to come up with tactics to handle those powerful foes, but there won't be armies of hundreds of thousands of 10th level fighters, even in late rounds.So, who's interested?  I'll post this message, then start typing up round one.</blockquote>

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