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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2251443" data-attributes="member: 29252">Mild problem - there's no metamagic feat that applies to Major Image to make it cover the area you want - it's the wrong type for Widen, so you only get 4 ten-ft cubes + 1 10-ft cube/level; at 17th, that's 21 10-ft cubes, or a 30x70 field, 10-ft high; you can get a sizeable portion of the army in there, though, and you will need to concentrate on this, and thus do it last. What you want is Persistant Image, so you don't need to concentrate.Might let this slide, though, as the power level of such an illusionary earthquake is probably in line with an 8th level spell, and so cover the entire army in question.... for a little longer than you concentrate on it.No room for Maximize, so you get 1d4+1 Large Earth Elementals as per Summon Monster VIII, that follow your instructions as above.No room for Maximize, so you get 1d4+1 Large Air Elementals as per Summon Monster VIII, that follow your instructions as above.Much. Of course, those large elementals for caster level rounds, while being quite devastating, are only going to kill around (2d4+2)*Caster Level opponents (assuming they are all 1-shotted, and the elemental can move on to the next with a remaining move action), unless you arrange for them to be tightly packed so the elementals can get more than one opponenet in per round; even then, you can probably only double that. Assuming everything goes perfectly (max rolls, tightly packed for double) and caster level 17, you take out (2*4+2)*17*2=340 soldiers. Without tight packing, and an average roll on the number of elementals, still assuming one-shotting, you get (2*2.5+2)*17=119 soldiers. Fairly sizeable chunk of the army. Of course, you could duplicate that with two Summon Monster VIII's and a few Persistant Images just as well, assuming you had them.</blockquote>

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