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>>47765274
A couple of ways:

>Pitched Battles
I'm assuming two scenarios: one where air cavalry are used like the Nazgul in LotR; shock and awe, with swooping melee attacks; and one where they're more Mongolian and use bows and arrows to rain death from above.

In the first scenario, the best way to deal with them would be Pikemen, same as standard cavalry. In the second, things become a little more difficult. I would assume that adopting a Testudo formation (see attached image) would help, while using archers and ballistae to shoot them down (the Roman repeating ballista or Korean hwacha would be good for this). And all of this is assuming that the flyers don't have to deal with enemy air cavalry as well.

>Castles
Castles could take a number of approaches to dealing with air power. The most obvious are stationing a bunch of ballistae on all the battlements, essentially forming medieval AA batteries. You could also coat the rooves and battlements with something slippery or sticky to prevent airborne troop deployments and the like.

Insofar as construction is concerned, you might also see castles that look more like modern bunkers than traditional castles, with heavily fortified roofs as well as walls, or castles that are built into the sides of mountains or hills.

>>47766240
Or designed to give the defenders an edge incase of said flyers landing, bunker in the middle of the keeps roof gives cross fire on the roof / protection from archers and landed monsters.

>>47765274
Probably just masses of archers, not much else would be able to track a flying target fast enough and provide enough volume of fire if you rule out gunpowder and magic.

Other options would rely on ingenuity and luck. For example, I'd imagine you could perhaps come up with some sort of chain shot to fire out of a ballista, but I doubt itd be very useful or even able to hit the target.

Essentially, youd either need aircav of your own, or would have to wait for them to come to you. However unlike traditional cavalry aircav would be far more mobile and difficult to counter with tactics like forming a square. Aircav would wait for infantry to be distracted and swoop in to harass them, or pick off support troops who are unaware or unprotected.

And if a route happened, the fleeing army would be doomed. You wouldnt be able to form any kind of serious defence.

So basically, theyd work like regular cavalry, except theyve removed the weaknesses of being vulnerable to terrain and would be insanely difficult to hit with bows, two of the best counters to regular cav. Maybe pikemen could fight back, but think about if a guy DID succeed in sticking a flying steed. The damn thing would probably plow into the unit crushing men under it and cause more damage than it would have had you ignored it.

Bandits and tribes of savages (barbarians, orcs, beastmen, etc.) with better weapons and armor targeting convoys only from one of the nations.

A group of state sponsored smugglers trying to addict the populace of one of the major cities yo an addictive drug
Or they're trying to smuggle goods into and out of the city to mess with the economy

Spys from one nation pee along the roads of one nation to make the grass around them look patchy and unkept.

>>47764222
Why buy a kindle when I already own a smartphone.

Those are the betamax of our generation

>>47764222

I could get a cheap older tablet and cover all the lookup needs for rules.

Still, I love physical books. Nothing can quite replace the analog for me, though I've a very sentimental kind of guy.

>>47764250

A tablet is much more readable on a bigger screen. And you could probably pick up a perfectly serviceable one second hand if you don't want to pay full price for a new one. And why should you?

>>47764280
>I've a very sentimental kind of guy.
>implying the tablets can't have sentimental value

>>47763827
He seems an okay chap. Very traditionalist, but a song as new players know that he seems harmless enough.
Also:singing.

>>47763827
I got linked to his videos, ended up watching all of them.

I don't agree with all his DMing philosophy. I think partly cause he is pretty tradtionalist like >>47764031 mentions, but he's pretty good at telling newbies the basics and being good about "this is just what works for me, other ways work for other people, but I really can only recommend what works for me."

pretty excellent

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>>47763409
Sure anon give me your skype, I'll invite you to my BC game.

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>>47763480
I'll give you my email instead. [email protected].

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>>47763717
>posting your email on 4chan

shiggy diggy

Make them good characters and stop being an arsehole Jesus.

>>47763287
Make a racist old human. Veteran soldier.
Fighter or rogue, possibly paladin if you choose a humancentric god or go with oath of the crown.

Ok so here's my idea, lets assume they don't know what their characters get for languages. Give the wizard the ability to speak a language that no one but one other person speaks in the party, then make the other person a barbarian or similar low int character, Should make it interesting to have them convey plans, even better if the low int is serious about low int roleplay.

>>47762937
Yeah. Super heavy railroading. Basically the warlock tried to sell a deed that ended up being fake. He didnt know that. Noone in town saw me with them but i muat have known where he was, when i walked out of a shop on my own. I even pointed the guards in the right direction to find him. I got arrested anyways. I broke out dressed as a guard and went to get my gear back. And a random prisoner knew i wasnt a guard and somehow called for the guards to stop me. Luckily the dmnpc came out of no where to save the day by getting us pardoned just becasue he said we were innocent and killed the guy who accused us by throwing himinto a pocket dimension where he keeps t he taarasque as a personal garbage disposal.
>MY SALT KNOWS NO BOUNDS

One was Session 1 railroading to get the party together. The other was intentional so that our rogue could sneak into the keep which he managed to poison all the food there and kill off most of the guard as we incited riots throughout the city.

>>47762937
Not prison, but my Mage was stuck in the tank for 24 hours once because he smartmouthed a Cop.

Then there was the time my Super-Criminal had to get himself arrested to break someone out of Prison. Got himself arrested on charges of aggravated assault, plead guilty, then Hulked out and broke down a few walls escaping.

>>47762648
I tried to, it's amazing if it's on a grid or he map. Otherwise just set a distance scale, it gets clunky with long range weapons though

>>47762757
I was thinking of using Frostgrave/mordheim/2E 40K-- but that would flatten out the character advancement quite a bit.

I been thinking of something like that
a wargame where the players can costumize every unit on their (small) army like it was an rpg.

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>>47762535
>drop out because "no can naem"

Fucking google exists, name generators exist, stop being a fucking sperg and go find something.

>>47762535

Random name generators?

>>47762535
I modify names from obscure games to fit my needs

Yes.

>>47762481
My GM would probably say no.

>>47762481
I'd say it would depend on whether or not the relevant parties know that he is not just praying to his God as clerics will do, but specifically calling for power.

>>47761635
.. why

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>>47761814
Never split the party.

>>47761635
I know some people have problems with player retention, but this seems a little extreme

>>47761557
Playing pretend away any kind of injury.
"You can't attack me, I'm in a safe zone."

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>>47761557
Lovecraft Lite is meh bro, but I suppose singing feelsy songs, befriending abominations through the power of Care Bear Stares, and excessive cuddling with the ladies and gents.

>>47761557
>nu uh, I have a force-field.

Pretty much anything that looks vaguely sciffy and is from before 1960-70. It's a treasure trove out there.

>>47761001
Nothing from 2000 onwards?

Not even TV-shows or stuff like that?

Endless Legend

Treasure Planet

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>47760429

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>>47760483

A proper regiment of proud Guardsmen, wonderful !

Now, what's your recruitment criteria, soldier?

>roll 1d100

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>47760511

>>47760396

Whatever happened to survive and you can get power for.

I imagine Raspberry Pis and Ardunos would be worth their weight in gold in some instances.

>>47760396
Sturdy African-shithole-ready laptops.

Now, say you have a Mad Max: Fury Road sort of future.
What do you imagine people would use computers for?
Anti-lock brakes on their motorcycles, of course.
Maybe a primitive internet with small networks.
What else?