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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6311336" data-attributes="member: 1165">I see eladrin tactical teleports as fascinating. I'm picturing humans defending a 25 foot tall wall. Whoops, too short! The walls have crenellations, partially blocking vision, and the walls are twice as thick as usual, and there's blocks and other stuff taking up about half the space. Plus most of the rest of the wall are occupied by people.To teleport up, the eladrin need to clear some space. Enough for a squad. Archers and wizards focus fire a part of the wall, killing the humans there, then a force of spearmen and archers teleport up. The spearmen occupy both sides of this "vulnerable string" while archers in the middle slaughter another group of humans, opening up another space for a new squad.If the archers let opponents get that close, they're probably already in trouble. Archers would probably try to occupy hills, not only to make it harder for people to get to them, but also to see them coming.Human archers fighting eladrin in a forest at night are in a world of pain. They'd have a hard time if eladrin couldn't teleport, but it would be worse because eladrin can.I don't think teleport is worse than a charge. It takes time, a decent fraction of six seconds. As far as I can tell, if you teleport more than 10 feet you're still taking a Stealth penalty. (So I guess you bamf, and then a couple of seconds later you appear elsewhere. The victim-to-be might even know where you will appear a split second before you do.)Maybe you can, if the pikemen are considered a "swarm". (Because a swarm is difficult but passable terrain.)Let's suppose eladrin "automatically" beat pikemen. I don't think that's bad. Central Asian horse archers "automatically" beat Romans, and yet still lost some battles. I think a feudal lord raising troops would be less likely to raise pikemen if his lands are near an eladrin kingdom. Let's suppose this lord is far from the eladrin, and uses lots of pikemen. He would curse a blue streak if the king survived an assassination attempt at the hands of eladrin and a war was sparked with them. "Damnit, these guys are going to suck against all those wizards, archers and teleporters! I'm going to spend some of that gold on mercenaries and adventures!"</blockquote>

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