| FWCain |
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
One of the advantage from1st edition's rules on armies was that the size (i.e. the number of troops) in the army was specific. I call this an advantage, when the PCs have lots of high-level spells available, and want to nuke the army from orbit, err, reasonably high altitude. By knowing the number of targets down below, one could figure out how may meteor swarms it would take to give a serious spanking to the enemy army.
Now, in the 2nd edition, we have no such metric for us. Just how many soldiers are there in that 20th level army? And given that high-level characters of PC-quality character classes should be rare, just what level(s) are those soldiers? (If they are of a sufficient level to be a challenge to a 20th level PC, why in blazes are those NPCs in someone else's army, instead of adventuring on their own??)
Even moderate-level PCs should be a very tough challenge for an "equivalent level" army. A group of moderate level PCs, armed with wands of fireball or ice storm, riding a flying carpet a 200 to 300 feet above the ground, should be wiping the floor with the whatever-level army is hugging the ground below them!
(And don't get me started on a goblin alchemist's version of a fuel air explosive!)
^_^
Thanks,
Franklin