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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1100571" data-attributes="member: 7177">I think if you have lots of D&amp;D magic, warfare will resemble modern special ops far more than anything medieval. You don't pack your people in tight formations - if a single grenade or machine gun salvo can take them out if they huddle together, the same can be said for fireballs and lightning bolts.So, just as in modern warfare, the goal is to spot the enemy before he spots you, and kill him before he even knows that you are out there. Lots of small squads are more useful than massive hordes.And naturally, training becomes vital. Just as modern Western combatants are highly trained specialists, the people who do all the real combat probably aren't 1st-level characters - those would only get slaughtered. That doesn't mean that such people wouldn't have a place in an army, but they will likely be in a support role, or police conquered areas that haven't been fully pacified. For the assault you send in the elite troops who will have been trained in all sorts of &quot;unconventional warfare&quot; - and with D&amp;D magic and magic items, &quot;unconventional&quot; can get very unconventional indeed...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 1100571, member: 7177"] I think if you have lots of D&D magic, warfare will resemble modern special ops far more than anything medieval. You [i]don't[/i] pack your people in tight formations - if a single grenade or machine gun salvo can take them out if they huddle together, the same can be said for fireballs and lightning bolts. So, just as in modern warfare, the goal is to spot the enemy before he spots you, and kill him before he even knows that you are out there. Lots of small squads are more useful than massive hordes. And naturally, training becomes vital. Just as modern Western combatants are highly trained specialists, the people who do all the real combat probably aren't 1st-level characters - those would only get slaughtered. That doesn't mean that such people wouldn't have a place in an army, but they will likely be in a support role, or police conquered areas that haven't been fully pacified. For the assault you send in the elite troops who will have been trained in all sorts of "unconventional warfare" - and with D&D magic and magic items, "unconventional" can get [i]very[/i] unconventional indeed... [/QUOTE]

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