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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 745461" data-attributes="member: 6533">I have to think that there is a way to make spear growth a lower level spell.  It basically just makes amunition afterall and magic stones and shillelaugh are super low level themselves.As far as I know the Cressians have no idea of silver vulnerability in lycanthropes.  Earlier in the thread they had to pen lycanthropes up in special cells in order to control them.  They did know that they were sort of vulnerable to fire, and the old cave people seemed to be getting a much better understanding of what sorts of crafted goods hurt them.Speaking of cave people, how long until the remnants/descendants of their culture, who have been studying the Cressians for forever now, contact the Ta'jinn or the Auselen?  I think they won't help but try it when a large and viable invasion force shows up in Cressia.Two things I think the Cressians might develop.  First, the spear growth gave me the idea that the Cressians could develop the equivalent of LARPs.  They already have very very highly trained and trained to act on their own professional troops who are spend all their time moving through the wilderness, and their use of druids could enable a fairly small group to operate at a very high level of effectiveness without ever contacting a supply base.Second, I think both sides are going to develop the equivalent of think tanks and intelligence services.  First of all, both sides are very surprised by the other.  Second they are in tactical stalemate.  The drive to learn about the other side and discover some means of breaking the tie is going to consume the time of their higher ranking officers.  Groups are going to be formed and supported who do nothing but attempt to find patterns in the enemy and creative means of exploiting them.  The Ta'jinn may have already had something like this in their council of command system, but for the Cressians this will represent a new form of labor division in their command staff.  Both sides are likely going to provoke conflicts to test theories and undergo risky operations in order to capture valuable bits of information.That could be the means by which deltanes come into contact with a silver bedecked Ta'jinn commander.I agree that the Centaurs are likely to only use bucklers, but the infantry of the Ta'jinn is going to be very shield based.  I love the Ta'jinn use of flares that's exactly the sort of low level but creative magic use that the Ta'jinn should be using.I also think that the Ta'jinn are going to start investing more heavily in their infantry tactics.  Particularly in ways of using their infantry to capture and then fortify inportant pieces of rough terrain.  They still wouldn't be able to project power through it as the Cressians do, but they would be able to severly inhibit the Cressian's ability to do so.  I also think they're likely to use a lot of traps.  Most of them probably aren't too effective against people with the Cressians expertise, but the effort could lead to important developments.  I particularly like the idea of undead or small servitors sent to hide in the rough and make lots of noise if they 'see' anything manlike moving around.Good lord this thread is fun.</blockquote>

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