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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6695174">The Conan stories occasionally have him as a leader of men (from squad, to army, to nation) and thus it would be a great skill for dicing out larger encounter outcomes. Did Mongoose make any sort of abstract mass combat system?  If not, I have found that this has been a major shortfall D&D has rarely tried to address. Old D&D had War Machine - both crunchy and abstract - so it was at least in the ballpark. I think it was Cry Havoc (Malhavoc Games?) that did something here - but I remember it seemed to use a fig as a unit, and again a decent amount of math. Battlesystem has always been more of a wargame than a high level game where this skill would be useful.(what brought this to my mind is that Savage Worlds has a mass combat system and uses this equivalent skill for its resolution. We just used this the other night in a Game of Thrones-like Ptolus game to resolve a battle between our house and another house - we kicked their tail!)</blockquote>