Jon Mollison had a fantastic video today talking remedial knowledge of tabletop wargaming within the context of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition.
For those who have access to Chainmail, you'll be able to confirm that this is the case. Even if you're only familiar with Warhammer (be it Fantasy, Ancients, or 40K) you have sufficient familiarity with these concepts to make them comprehensible without any deep explanation.
No, this video is for those that have no mass battle experience whatsover and struggle to comprehend how this works at all; they need to see it in action, and Jon did a great thing here by making concrete a lot of abstract ideas. It would be to the #BROSR's benefit to show this in action more often than is done.
Right now, I've rolled up October's encounters for New Model Colony.
All four of them are hostile encounters. Three of them are monster bands. One of them is a Brigand gang. After I looked up the Monster entries to fill out the stats and see what treasures are available, I had a Brigand gang with a 7th Level Magic-User.
I went ahead and determined what spells this NPC had. Charm Person and Charm Monster showed up. An evil Magic-User with spells that bend the subjects to his will? The implication was obvious, so I'm running with the idea that these NPCs are actually an army arriving piecemeal to take the Colony for itself- specifically, for the benefit of the high-level Fighter leading the Brigands.
The Colony faces 25 Ogres, 160 Orcs, and 180 Brigands. That does not include their leader figures. What goes down this month is huge.
I can already tell that the accord that the Colony made with the Treants is going to prove critical to events this month.
This means that there's going to be at least one mass battle, and at least one where both sides have spells to sling about, so what you saw in that video is going to be applied and my Domain report will reflect it.
This is the D&D I always wanted as a boy, but never got.
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