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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aelryinth" data-source="post: 7910856" data-attributes="member: 10515">This is not true.Eberon's troops have to obey the same cost/level that Faerun's and Oerth's do. They have the same equipment lists, they'll have the same basic gear... and generally speaking, they are a level or two lower.Eberron has magewrights who can use wands, but faerun and Oerth have far more true spellcasters, especially priests.Eberron fights powerful casters... who are 10-12, maybe. They have no experience whatsoever in dealing with multiple archcasters.Oerth has a demonic demigod and a kingdom fallen to Hell right there. they are used to fighting DEMONS. Faerun has experience fighting dragonflights... and phaerimm and Netherese, among other things.I agree with you that eberron has a higher magitech floor then the other two, i.e. standard of living for non-mages. But their operational stuff is no better on the face of it, and in pure magic, the other two worlds are far, far more advanced.An archmage doesn't have to wipe an army. He only has to wipe the commanders, and/or kill key elements every day... which he can pretty much do. Just Summoning up Elemental hordes, dropping AoE's on barracks, sending multiple cloudkills this way and that, or Banshee Wailing your officers dead is easy enough... and he can just repeat this every day, picking off the low level guys who might be able to do something with equipment with nigh impunity.Archcasters are not dumb, and at the same time, its very, very hard for low level people to do anything to them, and the archcasters will know what they can do, remove that threat first, and then go to town.So, in summary, Eberron isn't going to win the boots war, because the boots will be slaughtered by the high levels. Boots can only hold ground, but magical war is not modern war. In magical war, powerful individuals win the fight. Soldiers only fight when the powerful do not. If you can't neutralize or counter the powerful people on the other side, your boots are just going to die.I would also point out that the population of Faerun dwarfs Eberron, although I'm not sure how Oerth's nations measure up.Eberron's ability to produce constructs is impressive. Faerun's and Oerth's ability to destroy the places that produce those constructs is even more impressive.</blockquote>

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