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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 1782399" data-attributes="member: 83">Segment the Battlefield...IMO, you need to cordon off the gate area and have 1 team bashing the gate while the other team holds off the bad guys.  Destroying the bad guys should not be your primary objective until AFTER the gate is destroyed.  Cut of the reinforcements first, then destroy in detail.So, rush the gate, attack the gate and defend the gate attackers.Ideas:1) Have a dedicated "Gate Destruction Team" (GDT).  As Henry suggested, use raging barbarians bearing sledges (does that rhyme?).  Have the low-level clerics load them up with Protection from Elements.  Cast the Grease spell between the GDT and and the enemy.  Pour some oil (and/or Alchemist's Fire) onto the some general area as the Grease spell.  Have someone with a readied action torch the oil should the enemy break through the cordon and try to assault the GDT.  A flaming area of grease should slow any attackers down.2) Reserve the Pyrotechnics scroll for a concerted enemy effort to get to the GDT.  Use the scroll's "smoke cloud" effect to obscure vision and incapacitate attackers that are trying to get through the area.3) Does anyone have Obscuring Mist or other vision obscuring magics?  If so, array a defense in depth:  (a) Seize the gate are and kill/drive off any guards in the immediate area.  Low-level clerics with access to Command - "flee" would work well against normal guards.  (b) Use Obscuring Mist to block visuals from outside your immediate area.  (c) Use Grease, caltrops and oil to form a defensive barrier.  (d) Make the enemy come to you...time is on your side, not theirs.  (e) Leave a gap or two in the defensive barrier to allow your centaur to counter-charge or lead a sortie.  (f) Have a special missile squad whose sole job is to keep up a constant fusilade of missiles at the leader to disrupt in psionic manifestation (readied actions to pepper him if he looks to be concentrating <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).Have fun stormin' the castle <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />!~ Old One</blockquote>

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