QuoteIt was straightforward character battles but armies are done with Chainmail direct abstractness off screen. That is they can only roleplay command of their armies and I try to throw it off on them (i.e. like a wish spell in a way.)

The enemy air force was obliterated before they had a chance to attack as every unit went for or was ordered to go for the dragons. The invading "good guys" paid the price when the giant cyclopean creature with the 60' wide disintegration blasted them, evil clerics detonated pre-planted "storm bombs" and magic-users shot them with new "starblast" spells. The good army's back was broken as the soldiery was annihilated in huge swathes. However the magic support came through and took out the entirety of the front walls. The good air force then proceeded to the top walls where most action happened offscreen and got the remaining archers, engineers, magic-users and clerics. The field artillery including cyclopi took out the giant monster. The enemy ground army was ordered to rush the field and were routed after massive losses from archers and the field artillery. Their 3 spectre army lords were slain on the field. The good air force was wittled down to a nub after taking out the wall denizens including the evil king. When Bill flew down to try to open the gates to the town 4 Iron Golems activated so he fought them then they killed his dragon and sent him running. His henchmen (who were riding on the back of the dragon as well) fled earlier to get help from the magic-users and clerics who didn't want to get real close. The golems crushed their way through the army at the gate destroying sapping device while killing soldiers and engineers like flies. The cyclopi took them out. The inner gates were opened from within by the remnant air force who went down into the castle and were fried by demons in the main chamber but survived.

Afterwards, they retained bugbear and man-ape prisoners to labor to restore farmland. The kings and major "players" involved that contributed forces and support to the defeat of the new king formed the "Council of Eight" and decided to be a sub-council separate from the high council but still retaining their membership within that other body. They will now use the castle as meeting place.

Although the game prior to this one was a sortie against invaders this in no way represents average play. I had to cut the beginning of the film off because I couldn't dislodge the menu that the DVD had burned into the first chapter plus an entire subterranean delve to find the secret door into the defending castle wasn't filmed. This ran 12 hours of non-stop playing which was a short game for us.

Quote from: SettembriniI don´t see the awesome in the battle depicted. What´s special about it?