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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5695950" data-attributes="member: 463">I was almost always the DM 20 years ago.  AIR the reason PCs often did not hire hordes of hirelings was that it did not seem to be a very effective tactic,  as I have already discussed - mid-high level PCs being so much more effective.  But it was certainly an *available* tactic, and would be used where necessary - eg hiring a ship & crew to explore the Isle of Dread.  I can certainly recall cases of PCs taking dozens or hundreds of often-short-lived Ftr-0s into battle with them, and against 1e giants those F0s armed with pole arms or 2-handed swords could actually be quite effective.   We once had a battle where the PCs held off an army of 100 fire giants attacking Irillian with the aid of their own army of 0th level men-at-arms.</blockquote>