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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Myler" data-source="post: 8025380" data-attributes="member: 6726030">You know in this rule system, it does. Much of 5E is design by occlusion—the rules are as much about what they explicitly say as they are about what they don't say. It's very annoying from a designer perspective. What it does say (and have) are more than one reference to heroes in the battle being captured and taken as prisoners of war. It's up to the GM and reader to make the logical leap that when an army is reduced in health, some of its soldiers died or otherwise stopped fighting.Routing (aka Overrun! on page 4) is what happens when an army's hit points are reduced to 0. The GM may decide that means all the soldiers are dead, but it doesn't say that. It says the army unit is destroyed. Sounds like you might just want to find whatever the mass combat rules are for GURPS and transport them into here, which is fine. I definitely did not want the author on this article to do that because as displayed above, the existing rules for mass combat are (at the very least) not wanting for heavy-handed complexity.</blockquote>