Hey, A few questions:
Are you still looking for people? How different is this from pathfinder & its mass combat? Is everyone running the same nation?
I'm still accepting people!
5e's mass combat is pretty different, it looks like. It's basically just normal combat, but extrapolated to a larger scale, and the players have an army to command. 5e itself isn't very different, you'll probably find it pretty familiar.
The way I'm running this, everyone is in the same party, all fighting for the same nation, the Kingdom of Castile.
I have a question too!
Can our units gain experience and level up, and how and what do they have to do for that? I'm wondering about an illusion mage troop, but they will be very directly weak at level 1, tho indirectly very powerful, at least against troops with low INT. If they can gain levels, however, they will become very dangerous.
That's a good question. I would say that they can level up, after a fashion. They will gain HP, and selected class features, based on what they're used for. How they level up is still in flux. I'll get back to you on that.
Tho in retrospect, I see mages as being very hard to actually use on the battlefield, at least in their current form. They have very powerful effects, but much lower range than the cheaper, rank-and-file archers. They are very squishy-a few groups of shortbowmen would make 'short' work of them. Longbows have almost ten times the range as most spells. Probably intended. Then again, I assume archers have ammunition limits, tho I cannot find this in the book-so maybe send in the chaff first to soak up the volleys...
Archers will run out of arrows, unless they're supplied by a Supply Caravan, is my thought.
But Jesus, the supply caravans are really expensive... That seems unreasonably high to me, it's already gonna be a massive pain to defend them, especially if they take up a quarter of the money we get.
Can you run me through your math and your thinking? I thought it was a fair cost at a ten to one ratio.
My thinking is that we are not marching across the continent right? Granada is about a weeks march from Toledo. So people won't need to bring every single thing with them. Plus, friendly territory will be close by, and you could easily resupply there. Third of all, we will presumibly be looting and pillaging, a good part of our supplies can come from there. I understand the need for caravans, but the 50 gold for 10 stands is a little high. I would suggest 30 gold for 10 to be more reasonable.
I didn't think it through properly. That's fair. I'll make the changes.
Also, thought: You can forage for food and the like, but caravans allow you to spend HD to heal during short rests.
Edit: Oh yeah and I screwed up because I thought we got 500 Gold EACH.
NONONONO, You do get 500 GP each! 20k Reals = 20k silver = 2k gold = 4*500 gold
I just had a thought. What's the maximum size of thing you can use as ammo in a sling?
Why do you ask?
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