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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 2320837" data-attributes="member: 839">Using the air force analogy again, by default, your air force will attack your enemy's air force.  Same with navy, army, etc.  Only after you thoroughly defeat your opposing counterpart do you begin to attack other things (the opposing army, for instance).  Which is the point I've been trying to make all along, the first battle is always going to come down to HLC vs. HLC.  Only after one side or the other is defeated do they start attacking the army.A commoner is also farming or otherwise producing.  An army in the field doesn't.  An army in training doesn't.  A commoner also built his own shack to live in.  He also probably doesn't get as good of a diet as he should (i.e. malnurished and weak).How are they going to kill anything with no armor and only spears?I'm beginning to think that we should just have a mock war.  Something like an army of 10,000, with a few sergeants, maybe some exotic corps (flying cavalry, for instance) vs. a party of 4 20th level PCs.</blockquote>