Heres a QUERY ?

What happens when a wizard summons a 12HD hydra into the middle of a fray ?

How would you represent such a monster in a warcard/battle scenerio ?


- -----Original Message-----
From: Ryan B. Caveney
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Thursday, 28 May 1998 19:03
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Warcards rant.


>
>
>On Wed, 27 May 1998, James Ruhland wrote:
>
>> training and technical-wise. Which is another thing that is somewhat
>> lacking in BR: dudes with the same equipment perform roughly the
>> same/have roughly the same effectiveness, but equipment is far from the
>> most important determining factor when you are considering combat
>> efficiency
>
> Not necessarily. If we adopt the war card = 100 HD/hit rather
>than 200 soldiers, as does the oft-mentioned "Cry Havoc" article from
>Dragon Annual #2, then skill is indeed a major factor. For example, that
>means orog infantry equals human infantry, even though outnumbered 3-1.
>
>> the excellent "How to Make War" books by Dunnigan and. . .darn, the
>> co-author is sliping my mind, and I ain't got time to go dig up the
books.
>
> My copy (1983 revised ed.) lists only Jim Dunnigan (Mr. SPI). But
>yeah, it's a good book, though not really relevant to the topic at hand
>(too much emphasis on modern (i.e., tanks'n'planes'n'nukes) warfare). If
>you want a serious (perhaps *too* mathematical) numerical analysis of war
>in general, try a book Dunnigan recommends, Trevor Dupuy's "Numbers,
>Predictions and War". If you are seriously interested in the history and
>theory of war, I cannot too-highly recommend Hans Delbrueck. Clausewitz
>and Sun Tzu are also very cogent and relevant, but it can be hard to pick
>the best translation for your needs: both suffer from having become a bit
>too popular lately. =)
>
>--Ryan
>
>
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