Mass Combat?
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Dark Jezter
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There are several books on the subject. The two I am most familiar with are D&D Minaiatures Handbook by Wizards of the Coast, and Cry Havoc by Malhavoc Press. Both books contain different approaches to mass combat. The Miniatures Handbook approach requires you to have a large table and lots of miniatures, and is much like a D&D version of Warhammer Fantasy. The Cry Havoc system allows you to use a battlemat and a much smaller number of counters/miniatures, and basically functions like regular D&D combat on a larger scale.
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MarauderX
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Fields of Blood
Fields of Blood is what I am going with for my mass combat rules, and Farland's mass combat system (on the ENWorld home page) is pretty good too. I recommend FoB because it has guidelines on running nations and production so you can see how big and what types of armies can be fielded by a given city/nation. Cry Havoc is another, but it is battle-only oriented and somewhat limited with what I was looking to do.
Fields of Blood is what I am going with for my mass combat rules, and Farland's mass combat system (on the ENWorld home page) is pretty good too. I recommend FoB because it has guidelines on running nations and production so you can see how big and what types of armies can be fielded by a given city/nation. Cry Havoc is another, but it is battle-only oriented and somewhat limited with what I was looking to do.
Galethorn
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Here's two links that ought to...help...a bit.
Farland Mass Combat System
Farland Mass Combat Program
The program only makes complete sense if you read over the rules it uses, and the rules it uses are a bit clunky (in my opinion) when used without the program.
Farland Mass Combat System
Farland Mass Combat Program
The program only makes complete sense if you read over the rules it uses, and the rules it uses are a bit clunky (in my opinion) when used without the program.
Taloras
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The campaign im going to be running (starts monday, will go up a few levels before we get to large battles, so i have a bit of time to get stuff) will have a lot of mass combat. Specifically, a horde invades faerun. (I posted about this a while back). Horde is split into Centuries(about 80 men or so) which are grouped into Cohorts(about 5 to 6 centuries) which are grouped in to a legion(10 cohorts), which are then put into a field army (10 legions). This makes a single army of about 50000 men. And there are 14 of these armies invading faerun at once from just north of the Silver Marches (starting with King Obould Many-Arrows). Thats approximately 700000 combatants. That does not include the 300000 other members (mostly experts and commoners) who support the armies.
Century = 80-100 men
Cohort = 400-600 men
Legion = 5000 men or so
Army = 50000 men or so
All im really needing is ways to have the mass combat, with the PCs as skirmishers/scouts on the side.
Century = 80-100 men
Cohort = 400-600 men
Legion = 5000 men or so
Army = 50000 men or so
All im really needing is ways to have the mass combat, with the PCs as skirmishers/scouts on the side.
Bendris Noulg
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Another vote for Fields of Blood.
