Ultimate Campaign: Mass Combat Units

[Mirrel the Marvelous]

In the new Ultimate Campaign rulebook under the mass combat rules, large numbers of troops are divided into units. But how many individual creatures/soldiers is that? I cannot find a solid number anywhere.

[Rocky Williams 530]

A unit is ONE creature. It's a confusing term. They should have gone for squad or something. An army could, technically, be made of of one unit (creature) or 1 million units (creatures).

[Morgen]

Think of it more as a unit of measure rather then a squad.

[Mirrel the Marvelous]

A colossal army is 2,000 men? That doesn't seem right. What about Armies that number in the 10's of thousands? (Battle of Helm's Deep, I'm looking at you!)

[Yora]

Use more units. Putting all your troops into a single unit seems rather wasteful and keeps them from being at several places at once.

[Rocky Williams 530]

A unit is a troop, so you can't put your troops into more units. It's bad terminology on the books part.

Unit = One soldier
Army = Group of more than one soldier (10, 100, 1000, etc...)

[Yora]

Sorry, I tend to slip into terminology that makes sense. ^^

[Tronos]

So, my army of 100 orcs would be represented by 1 miniature on the battle mat? That's how I think they're decribing it.

[stuart haffenden]

Mirrel the Marvelous wrote:

A colossal army is 2,000 men? That doesn't seem right. What about Armies that number in the 10's of thousands? (Battle of Helm's Deep, I'm looking at you!)

Does Golaion have a population capable of those sorts of numbers?

You could always have muttiple armies - more d20 rolls = more damage, it'll take away the chance that your billion troops rolling a natural one on its attack roll.