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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5674426" data-attributes="member: 20741">I use it sometimes for the Mass Battles rules in Chapter Six.A lot of people didn't like the Mass Battles Rules in the Miniatures Handbook.&nbsp; There were a number of reasons for this. Chief among them, a lot of people thought the battles took too long. I attribute my more positive view of the MHB to differing expectations on how long a battle should take when I first used it. I expected to be spending most of my evening running that fight on the tabletop, with 600 or so hundred minis involved. The rules lead to a battle of about 3-4+ hours or so. I was just fine with this. *shrug* Others dislike the potential effect the Rules can have on heroic PCs, mainly as the strategic time-scale involved in the rules inhibited spellcasters from utterly pwning the battlefield and the rules could potentially expose a PC to random death, too. (Unlikely, but Dems Da Breaks -- this is WAR).&nbsp; Even so, while less than ideal, Chapter Six works pretty well for combats of less than 300 (400 max) individual combatants per side. More combatants than that? You should not be using the MHB to run that fight, imo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5674426, member: 20741"] I use it sometimes for the Mass Battles rules in Chapter Six. A lot of people didn't like the Mass Battles Rules in the [I]Miniatures Handbook[/I]. There were a number of reasons for this. Chief among them, a lot of people thought the battles took too long. I attribute my more positive view of the MHB to differing expectations on how long a battle should take when I first used it. I expected to be spending most of my evening running that fight on the tabletop, with 600 or so hundred minis involved. The rules lead to a battle of about 3-4+ hours or so. I was just fine with this. *shrug* Others dislike the potential effect the Rules can have on heroic PCs, mainly as the strategic time-scale involved in the rules inhibited spellcasters from utterly pwning the battlefield and the rules could potentially expose a PC to random death, too. (Unlikely, but Dems Da Breaks -- this is WAR). Even so, while less than ideal, Chapter Six works pretty well for combats of less than 300 (400 [U]max[/U]) individual combatants per side. More combatants than that? You should [B][U]not[/U][/B] be using the MHB to run that fight, imo. [/QUOTE]

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