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Kelly Pedersen · 04-10-2018, 08:05 PM

For the question of "what does the horde roll for Strategy", I'd suggest rolling the average Perception of the zombies, but severely curtailing their options for battle strategies. Looking over it, I'd suggest just All-Out Attack, Attack, Indirect Attack (but only if the zombies happened to have a detached group who could come in as a surprise), Full Retreat (if the zombies are somehow scared by something like True Faith), and Raid (only if the zombies are in scattered, small groups at the start).

I would allow a Reconnaissance contest before the battle, again using the zombies' average Per to substitute for the normal roll. If they have Recon superiority somehow, I'd add that, but I'd only give zombie elements Recon TS if they had some kind of enhanced senses, like tracking humans by smell or a generic "life sense" that let them zoom in on living humans.

04-10-2018, 08:05 PM	#2
Kelly Pedersen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada	Re: Mass Combat against bestial hordes? For the question of "what does the horde roll for Strategy", I'd suggest rolling the average Perception of the zombies, but severely curtailing their options for battle strategies. Looking over it, I'd suggest just All-Out Attack, Attack, Indirect Attack (but only if the zombies happened to have a detached group who could come in as a surprise), Full Retreat (if the zombies are somehow scared by something like True Faith), and Raid (only if the zombies are in scattered, small groups at the start). I would allow a Reconnaissance contest before the battle, again using the zombies' average Per to substitute for the normal roll. If they have Recon superiority somehow, I'd add that, but I'd only give zombie elements Recon TS if they had some kind of enhanced senses, like tracking humans by smell or a generic "life sense" that let them zoom in on living humans.