I always overlook those threads...

TerraDave · Dec 20, 2004

tennyson said:
...and now it turns out I need them.

I know it's been asked and talked about ad nauseum, but can someone point me in the direction of a good mass combat system for the FR campaign I'm running? Thanks in advance!

There are several, some have already been mentioned.

Another one is the system from Testament (and from what I know the Trojan Was Mythic Vista as well). Falls in complexity between the "resolve the entire battle with one die role" and "have a long massive battle with many different units/counters and many, many die rolls". It also allows you to scale just how incredible your heroes are on the battlefeild.

As a slight aside, while there are a number of systems now, I don't know if there are any like traditional war games (or the old Battle System or yes Chainmail)--where you use mini's and each mini represents 10-50 inidividuals--that are fully compatible with 3rd edition D&D/D20.

What are you looking for, in terms of complexity, mini use ,etc?

diaglo · Dec 21, 2004

JoeGKushner said:
So how would it handle this.

15th level character (10 levels fighter/5 levels living engine or other army killer from Eden's book)

100 1st level commoners.

I playtested this and it was pretty close but the 15th level character won.

How many dice would you need? Are you talking skrimish level stuff or are you talking units? i.e. 10 orcs equal 1 unit or armies like Eden where 100 orcs equal 1 army.

How well does it scale?

How about terrain?

the lone guy would be considered a hero... or with that many levels something even higher. he is 1 mini.

depending on how you wish to group your commoners. you could have 100 minis each attacking separately.. (uncoordinated attacks.. and thus very iffy battle tactics and formations) or 50 units of 2; 25 units of 4; 20 units of 5; 10 units of 10; 5 units of 20; 4 units of 25; 2 units of 50; or 1 unit of 100.

the terrain scale would change based on unit size.

and the attack and damage potential (edit: damage each unit can take not damage it does) of each unit would change based on number/unit.

changing weapons for range or coordinating attacks for rear units and such will help the multi-unit side.

it has been some time since i ran a mass combat with Chainmail. but it is still a very workable system.

Mark · Dec 21, 2004

rounser · Dec 21, 2004

(Mass Combat Threads, Man!)

*me fails my save versus Mark's Symbol of Pun*
Urrrgh... :heh:

DungeonmasterCal · Dec 21, 2004

You could try here, as well.
www.birthright.net

I always overlook those threads...

TerraDave

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