So for the past few months, my friend and I have been working on a campaign. This campaign is meant to be a very "epic," large-scale campaign, to the point where, at higher levels, the players will go down in history as legendary heroes. Now, I've considered adding a wargaming element to the game to allow the players to play through epic battles with armies. The players would be able to create mercenary armies, build tactics, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
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It could be very cool, I'd image a politics heavy sort of game leading up to and between battles. As your PCs are trying to get support from neighbors and raise armies... possibly do some adventuring to get some treasure to fund the military.
There are also some old 3.5 and Pathfinder books on mass combat and higher scale... My only main worry about "mass combat" is I feel like casters especially Wizards and possibly Druids really "solve" mass combat at high levels.
So for the past few months, my friend and I have been working on a campaign. This campaign is meant to be a very "epic," large-scale campaign, to the point where, at higher levels, the players will go down in history as legendary heroes. Now, I've considered adding a wargaming element to the game to allow the players to play through epic battles with armies. The players would be able to create mercenary armies, build tactics, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
It could be very cool, I'd image a politics heavy sort of game leading up to and between battles.
As your PCs are trying to get support from neighbors and raise armies... possibly do some adventuring to get some treasure to fund the military.
This thread talks about doing siege: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/tips-tactics/10244-mass-orc-raid-on-large-city
Unearth Arcana: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/mass-combat
There are also some old 3.5 and Pathfinder books on mass combat and higher scale...
My only main worry about "mass combat" is I feel like casters especially Wizards and possibly Druids really "solve" mass combat at high levels.