Strange thought

[The Luge]

What if, instead of single characters, the players played a regimen of soldiers? The classes could be pikemen, or mounted soldiers, or even longbow guys.. Groups of gunslingers perhaps? Thoughts?

[Nebten]

Then you would be playing Chainmail, the forefather of D&D.

Honestly, there are a lot of miniture wargames out there: Warhammer 40K, Malfaux, Heroclix, Robotech, etc etc.

There are various rules to allow single players to control battle field regiments for D&D. They are OK and should be done sparlying. The heart of RPG is that you are taking on a character within a realm of fiction. ;)

[The Luge]

Interesting. Perhaps it would be fun to attempt.

[Abrir]

if you did this in the traditional game i'd recommend having them be like general/squadron leader of a squad and command them, but they still have their character that can break off from the group to defend them or take out a turret, make a distraction, ect, while the bowmen can get into a good position or, lead a charge, determine who they attack, and their tactics(as long as their with the group or can communicate orders) otherwise the follow the previous command given.