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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2275345" data-attributes="member: 7883">I think the analogy is dependent upon the assumption that one side has the high-level adventurers, and the other doesn't.  All of these comparisons seem to talk about high-level spellcasters throwing meteor swarms and such around, and wiping out a bunch of 1st lvl soldiers.But is that really the best use of resources?  IMO, a fantasy battle would be more like those depicted in Legend of Huma.  In those battles, there were your typical knights, footmen etc.....and high level warriors and spellcasters.  Yes, the spellcasters started casting spells on the ordinary soldiers....until the enemy spellcasters noticed, and then it became a war between spellcasters while the ordinary warriors slaughtered each other.I'd think if a general was leading an army, and some spellcaster started dropping fireballs on his guys, his next command's going to be to the great wizard Avarziel to take out the spellslingers on the other side, to take the pressure off the troops.Another good book was the Iron Throne, for Birthright.  In it, Michael Roele's army attacked the Gorgon's army.  Both were very high level fighters...in the 15-20 range.  They each had lots of troops who were lvl 1.  Both were capable of hacking their way through hordes of faceless level 1 footmen etc.  But as soon as these two high levelers found each other on the battlefield, they pushed through to each other, engaged in combat, and one of them died.  They didn't just stand around single-handedly destroying the opposing army.I think that in the volumes necessary to create armies, including swarms of high-level characters isn't economically feasible.  How many kingdoms can afford them?  And who would want to spend all that money on a resource, to take the chance that he gets 8 lvl 1 beginners tossing a net over him and dragging him down, or grappling him down and disarming him, or something like that?  High-level warriors and other characters are effective, but I think most of the scenarios are assuming that the enemies don't have access to similar resources, and are doing nothing to counter it.Banshee</blockquote>

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