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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 258043" data-attributes="member: 839">Infantry in groups is suicide.  One fireball would kill 20, 30, 50 men at a time.  I think it is best to think of mass combat in DnD through a World War I slant.Think of what happened in World War I when an army charged an entrenched army with machine guns.  Now, imagine an army charging a large group of wizards and sorcerors.  Just about the same thing.Therefore, armies began to fight smarter.  So would armies in DnD.  Instead of having armies marching and fighting on battlefields, I would think it would be more like World War I trench warfare.  It's obviously suicide to to fight in large formations on an open battlefield, so why should you?</blockquote>