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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 735477" data-attributes="member: 463">If you expect to be fighting damage-resistant monsters, you use weapons with a high CRIT multiplier - great axes are good, lucern hammers (x4 crit) would be perfect.  Warrior w ST 14 and great axe does 3d12+9 dmg per critical hit.  If your War 1 troops are ambushed by gargoyles though, their natural run-away reaction is probably best; leave it to the 4th level officer with a +1 weapon to deal with them (one at a time: the other levelled troopers can hold off the other 4 gargoyles).The other trick if you have a 7th level cleric, distribute Greater Magic Weaponed arrows to your archers before the battle.  That's at least 50 archers equipped w +2 arrows per 4th level spell slot.BTW, for level distribution for mundane troops (Warriors) I use 75% 1st level, 25% level 2+, halving number at each higher level.Eg:500 troops:375 Wr162 Wr 231 Wr 315 Wr 48 Wr 54 Wr 62 Wr 71 Wr 8 commander.Probably the top half-dozen men would have magic weapons.  There'll probably be a few low-level adepts or clerics and maybe a low level wizard providing support.  This force would have no trouble dealing with a few gargoyles: even if the leaders had no magic weapons they can always Power Attack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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