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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 650137" data-attributes="member: 1194">hahaha!I can't believe that the reason why mages aren't overpowering in SHARK's world that's trotted out is because he has hideously overpowered grunts!That's really kind of funny.The point that we were making is that a normal army, comprised of simple leveled core classes (the bulk of the Vallorean army?), levels 6-12 are of no use in battles with high level mages.NOW you're saying that every single battalion is comprised of a majority of fighter-types above level 13?Many squads are in the 25+ range?Here's the problem:if you require that high of level just so the grunts aren;t wiped away with high magic, than you have a problem as to where did they come from?High level battalions aren't just sprouted - they need a logical support structure of thousands of slightly lesser combatants, and hundreds of thousands of weaker grunts than that (~6th and below).If any of those are logically present, than wee have the same problem - the mage just takes advantage of those troops.I didn't say that mages aren't dominant in SHARK's world : SHARK can throw any number of obscenely powerful troops against them to prevent that from happening, since he's in charge, and the Armies Must March.I'm saying what I said : essentially, that there will always be plenty of fodder for the mage to blow apart unless you artificially tweak the power of the armies of grunts.from this: it seems that a logical battle of resources, where one mage takes out hundreds of high-level enemies (grunts, whatever they are) is somehow NOT considered a success in SHARK's world? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> If each mage on either side did this, each day, than over time, there wouldn't be these all-powerful numbers of uber-equipped armies to face them.War of Attrition, man -  it's just not the kind of battles that SHARK (and the other Marines) want.</blockquote>

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