Edena_of_Neith said:
The Battleragers would have all fallen in a single round.
How?
They are Bersekers, and would stand and fight, maim -kill even dying, for principle alone.
Even the well-laid traps of the dwarves would not have availed them. Their foes are mistresses of traps and tricks, and would have bypassed them all.
Traps on the battle field or to defend fortresses are like modern mine fiields.
if your enemy avoid them he couldn`t use this rote.
if he disarm then he looses time (at best) but xbowmen should reasinably took the drow under fire when trying this, it´s a bit difficuklt to diarm traps and dance with bolts and darkness would warn the defenders, fire out blind es pecially with light missiles could break the darkness.
other point avoiding traps, death gauntlet, if your enemy avoid the traps youz could lead them your chosen ways.
No MR in the planes help you against a few flamethrowers, fire resistence spells would, but not by the problems with air.
Another Question is if the sloppy drwo would be able to surppass the the superior dwarven craftmanship.
I seen small chances to get through the well defended gates of an dwarven fortresscity, without heaviest casualties, and not from bladefodder but from your finest.
Magic wouldn`t be overly useful because the dwarven clerics would have set wards against this.
Of course, in our campaign, Gromph - Archmage of Menzoberranzan - and all of the city's top mages and magistresses would have gone to fight.[The immense might of the Academy would have been brought to bear Noble Houses would have put aside their feuds to destroy the common enemy, each hoping to gain greater glory and favor in the eyes of Lolth.
Drow houses setting a side their inner house inner family feuding.
When you replace Lolth with elistraee, Baneetc...
Second when the full might of the drow had send agains MH, it had led menz undefended, i bet before they could have started the attack menz weould have been taken by an enemy.
razed to the ground, plundered and burned.
The drow hostz of menz had been without retreat without supply and fallen faster apart then you could say a wish.
They would not have retreated, for this would have dishonored themselves in the eyes of Lolth (worse than death for them), and no House would have retreated when other Houses were standing and fighting.
The drow have no concept of honor and gaining power for yoerself and your through betraying other drow could get you the favor of Lolth.
OTOh as fickle as the Spider is, her favor this year and her disfavor next year couldn`t made i worth anything at all, in the long run..
Alustriel could take every Archmage of Menz without problem, what a blow for the morale if your force see a human Wizarderess crunching without problem your mightiest Archmage.
The silver knights and the dwarves would fight as an unit with high esprit de corps.
As wrote in SoD dwarven didn`t hesitate to sacrifice their lives, fighting with their last dying breath, to help their clanmembers and shieldbrothers.
The drw wouldn`t risk a damn, to save their own family, if it didn`t have a real benefit for themselves, prefarbly they would use the battlefield to get rid of a few hindrances.
This isn`t a good thin when you need your eyes more on your back and your allies, then on the battlefield.
add to this the possibilty to collaps taken bastions and ways, and the drow wouldn`t be so forcefull any more, there aren´t so much spells to defend you from a collapsins Mountain and most would take to long.
