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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7021489" data-attributes="member: 6775477"><p>I guess it depends on what you want. Many just want to hand-wave battles, with the winner being determined by story. Others want a simple system to adjudicate mass combat without taking multiple sessions (such as the War Machine rules from BECMI). Some want to run the full combat, often resembling an old school wargame, which is where the UA looks at.</p><p></p><p>If you want to consider the power that AoE spells have in mass combat, you have to take a lot into consideration, mostly how common is magic in your world. A high magic world will have spellcasters on both sides, and the casualties for both sides are going to be high (probably leading to either huge armies of scrubs, or lots of skirmishes with elite units). A low magic world probably won't have that many spellcasters in a battle (if any), but they can single-handedly turn the tide (from the loss of morale alone, even if that many units don't die). Another thing to consider is how powerful are most NPCs (mostly as they compare to PCs), since that will determine the survivability of the average soldier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 7021489, member: 6775477"] I guess it depends on what you want. Many just want to hand-wave battles, with the winner being determined by story. Others want a simple system to adjudicate mass combat without taking multiple sessions (such as the War Machine rules from BECMI). Some want to run the full combat, often resembling an old school wargame, which is where the UA looks at. If you want to consider the power that AoE spells have in mass combat, you have to take a lot into consideration, mostly how common is magic in your world. A high magic world will have spellcasters on both sides, and the casualties for both sides are going to be high (probably leading to either huge armies of scrubs, or lots of skirmishes with elite units). A low magic world probably won't have that many spellcasters in a battle (if any), but they can single-handedly turn the tide (from the loss of morale alone, even if that many units don't die). Another thing to consider is how powerful are most NPCs (mostly as they compare to PCs), since that will determine the survivability of the average soldier. [/QUOTE]
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