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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 267677" data-attributes="member: 944">Fair point but mages are more usefull in irregular warfare than in direct combat. High magic games like I run (a wiz6 is equal to a person with a PHD in studies and therfore not uncommon) are rather differentWith teleport there are no front lines anymoreRemeber that merchant that went through your village last year.Sorry he is medium level infiltrator/wizard with a few magic items including his government issued wand of fireballsHe isn't going to fight your army, he is going on a chauchee behind your lines His is  taking out you seed storage sheds, starting forest fires and using magic venom on water supplies. You won't be fighting without food next yearAlso, remeber the other hundred wizards in the army?They aren't standing in line to be slaughtered, they are using the flying WarGolems for protection. DR15+1 and your arrows bouch off. They have somekind of magic against your ballistas too. Sure most of those wizards couldn't come close to making one, but so what.Maigc items are pretty much permenent under the rules. As long as Joe Wizards creation isn't destroyed than it sticks around.A wizards creations tend to outlast him by years and the accumulate. After a few centuries of a drip and and a dribble of magic items you wake up one day with more stuff than Wizards to use itIn battle things aren't like you were taughtYou nice tight formation is hit with a few hundred fireballs from the warious wands, bolt gauntlets, scrolls and prersonal spells.You captain is suddenly mind controlled and starts attacking the other officersYou and your green buddies, 1st level warriors don't have a chance against summoned demons and elementals. Even the third level ones that populate the army are easy meat. When the troops keep coming the wizards  fall back and use the wall of stone When they finally run you low on magic and you think you have them they Teleport.A few days later they return and your buddies don't.Given the damage the wizards inflicted back home you wish you had died with your buddies--- War, especially Wizards War is hell</blockquote>

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