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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4660210" data-attributes="member: 32740">My opinion can be summed up by saying that when PC's are involved directly in combat then things are played out using normal D&D rules, when PC's are not directly involved in combat then almost by definition the player involvement is strictly on a roleplaying level.  Winners, losers, and general consequences is very much a matter of DM fiat.  D&D rules and conceits simply do not lend themselves adequately to application to large-scale military actions.  As DM I would already be the one to decide the compostion of forces, the strategy, tactics, etc.  It's just not a useful expenditure of time to randomly play out the results and the players are generally not interested in that minutiae anyway.  They care about their characters involvement, and their characters involvement is ALWAYS the focus of the game.</blockquote>