ACR calculation for mass combat rules

[Lynos]

Hello

I am not clear about how this works.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/other-rules/mass-combat/

So you have different army sizes, the biggest one available is 2000 units (colossal)

However, how do you claculate ACR for a massive army of 20,000 troops? Is "unit" considered a single soldier?

If so, do I just take this "2000 units" entry and multiply it until I get to 20,000? It doesn't make sense. Do the rules stop at Colossal because that's the biggest army you can have and therefore it's the maximum bonus to ACR? So any size above 2000 units will get a bonus of +8?

Thanks!

[blahpers]

Lynos wrote:

However, how do you claculate ACR for a massive army of 20,000 troops?

Straight-up RAW, the only real way to do this is to split the army into multiple armies (e.g., 10 armies of 20,000 troops each) and track their movements, hit points, and so on separately. This can make for some fun times modeling advantages and disadvantages for different divisions/brigades/regiments/whatever.

RAW aside, keeping with the spirit of the chart, though, you could extrapolate the table to 5,000-unit, 10,000-unit, and 20,000-unit armies by adding another +2, +4, or +6 to the army's ACR, respectively. Size gets iffy once you get to Colossal and want to get larger, though, so I'd stick with splitting the army.

Quote:

Is "unit" considered a single soldier?

Yes, per the "Type:" section of the above-linked page.

[Lynos]

Thanks, blahpers.

I assume you meant 10 armies of 2,000 troops each?

So if I have several "small armies" in the big army, how do I decide when one side is victorious? Maybe if the number of routed and/or destroyed units drops below a certain threshold?

Or else it can take a while.