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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 7358946" data-attributes="member: 779"><p>I'm not thinking of game mechanics right now, just the concept and ideas of what you'd get if you had something like Napoleon Bonaparte's army that existed in a clearly magical fantasy setting. While things like early 19th century technology clearly exists and developed along side magic (and importantly they aren't opposing forces). I still clearly see most of the Emperor's forces being formations of soldiers armed with rifles despite the existence of everything else.</p><p></p><p>Something like the French Revolution may or may not have happened in the empire before the Emperor's rise to power. I do see to some degree that while his army is mostly Human, they do have Elven Officers, Dwarven or Goblin Soldiers and so on. Perhaps more significantly there are Ogre Cannoneers, who are generally more mobile than a typical artillery crew, even if Ogres might not be the brightest soldiers in the Emperor's army. When it comes to other monstrous creatures, I'm not sure what role they'd serve.</p><p></p><p>There's an airforce/navy of airships which essentially are like floating artillery platforms, and there are some Gnomish Ornithopters. Instead a lot of his aerial forces are Cuirassiers mounted on Wyverns and Griffins (there's still ground-based cavalry too). While the typical image of a Cuirassier has them armed with a sabre and a pistol since they rode horses in our world, I think that Wyverns and Griffins can fly far enough and fast enough that some might instead use polearms or rifles/carbines.</p><p></p><p>And then beyond that I'm not to sure on the idea of how spellcasters like Wizards and Clerics would fit in, beyond the likely idea that many of them would be officers leading a bunch of soldiers and that some Cuirassiers and Calvary might be Paladins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kobold Avenger, post: 7358946, member: 779"] I'm not thinking of game mechanics right now, just the concept and ideas of what you'd get if you had something like Napoleon Bonaparte's army that existed in a clearly magical fantasy setting. While things like early 19th century technology clearly exists and developed along side magic (and importantly they aren't opposing forces). I still clearly see most of the Emperor's forces being formations of soldiers armed with rifles despite the existence of everything else. Something like the French Revolution may or may not have happened in the empire before the Emperor's rise to power. I do see to some degree that while his army is mostly Human, they do have Elven Officers, Dwarven or Goblin Soldiers and so on. Perhaps more significantly there are Ogre Cannoneers, who are generally more mobile than a typical artillery crew, even if Ogres might not be the brightest soldiers in the Emperor's army. When it comes to other monstrous creatures, I'm not sure what role they'd serve. There's an airforce/navy of airships which essentially are like floating artillery platforms, and there are some Gnomish Ornithopters. Instead a lot of his aerial forces are Cuirassiers mounted on Wyverns and Griffins (there's still ground-based cavalry too). While the typical image of a Cuirassier has them armed with a sabre and a pistol since they rode horses in our world, I think that Wyverns and Griffins can fly far enough and fast enough that some might instead use polearms or rifles/carbines. And then beyond that I'm not to sure on the idea of how spellcasters like Wizards and Clerics would fit in, beyond the likely idea that many of them would be officers leading a bunch of soldiers and that some Cuirassiers and Calvary might be Paladins. [/QUOTE]
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