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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5871892" data-attributes="member: 22424">Anyone who can't afford to field an army of wizards?See, that's the thing about firearms - once you get past the really early and exotic models, they pretty quickly become something that people can be taught to use quickly and easily (much like crossbows), and they can be mass-produced relatively quickly and easily (much like crossbows).And firearm technology fairly quickly outstripped the capabilities of crossbow technology, thus supplanting it on the battlefield. (It took a bit longer to outstrip the most powerful longbows... but those took years of training to use effectively, where firearms took, what, weeks?)And so it is in the fantasy world - yes, you could raise an army of wizards, have them mass-produce scrolls of magic missile, and have a resulting unit that would probably be better than a unit of riflemen... but for the same money you can have 100 wizards or 10,000 riflemen. Suddenly it's not such a clear-cut question, is it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We've never had problems coming up with new ways to kill one another. And even if the early versions of a new technology are less good than the mature forms of an existing technology, it may well still see further research, if it promises the possibility of outstripping the old.Finally, of course, not all nations will work the same. If the dwarves in the campaign world tend to be non-magical in nature, or even if wizardry is just extremely rare amongst them, it makes sense that they'll devote considerable resources to developing some equaliser against the magically-powered armies of their rivals.</blockquote>

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