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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 4540031" data-attributes="member: 28487">Yes and no, I remember reading quote from a French officer in the Pennsular war, could have been quoted in Chandler's Campaings of Napoleon, then again it could have been anything, I read a lot of that stuff. Back to the French Officer, his batallion charged a British regiment while deployed in Column of Divisions (2 company frontage as far as I recall) anyway at 300 yards the men were yelling insults, cheering and in good morale at 150 yards they had fallen silent because the British line had not reacted visiblly to their advance. They were silently in line leaning on their muskets and because the Brits had only 2 ranks in line the French could see through the British line. At 75 yards the Brits shouldered arms and at 40 they fired. The French column broke. My point is that by standing there and not reacting for the 125 yards that the French were within musket range and not reacting the Brits were making an intimidate check and the French were leaking morale because this was unprecidended in their experience and were wondering what did these guys know that they did not. By shouldering arms and not firing for another 35 yards, that another intimidate check and then the morale effects for the first volley.In D&D terms, I doubt I'd allow a regular use of intimidate to knock off hit points but if say a someone did damage equal or greater than a the creatures bloodied value in a single attack and them made an intimidate on the rest of the enemies then I would allow damage from that and if say the damage made a majority of other creatures bloodied then I would have them flee the combat.</blockquote>

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