What's the fantasy equivalent of drone warfare and how can

>>53026743
Wizards scrying an area, and then unleashing massive ritual-powered blasts of lightning, fire, and frogs at spotted targets.

Or, you know, Thor getting drunk and chucking lightning bolts at random shit for giggles.

>>53026743
Easy, some asshole wizard who has decided it's better to make an army of golems and throw those at his enemies rather than be bothered to go deal with them himself, or some other asshole wizard who learned some really long range blast spells.

No matter what though, it was done by an asshole wizard.

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>>53026743
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Fucking wizards

Witch projection warfare. In some mythologies, it's believed witches can send out their spirits, usually in the form of animals, to accomplish various tasks while they lie down sleeping. In a setting where these are common enough, you could make a unit out of them. Use it for scouting or whatever.

>>53026743
I once had a plan to use a Sandshaper PrC in 3.5 in such a way.

They could shape animals out of sand to serve them using a craft check (without using summoning rules), particularly wanted to use a falcon from a high altitude as a spy device, then when a target is spotted just drop onto them, perhaps find a way to cast a few vitrifying or explosive effects onto the sandfalcon as it plummets at a smooth 200mph onto some dude's head.

Golems and/or undead.

>>53026743
The issue with fantasy is that everybody gets access to magic.

So all those people you've randomly killed with magic will eventually come to haunt you.

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>>53026743
Dragons. They're fast, fly overhead, are intelligent, have magic, can breathe fire or use spells/claws for precision attacks.

A dragon is like an autonomous combination between a drone, an ICB and a nuke. It's whatever the situation requires.

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I can imagine a pretty fun 1984-style campaign based around a bunch of totalitarian Wizard kingdoms stalemated against eachother. The party could either be sneaking around trying to topple the local regime without getting pinpointed and blasted, or trying to do espionage shit against another kingdom. Either way there'd be a lot of stealth and paranoia involved.

Golems or other animated objects come to life.

Just make some clay/rock pigeons, magic the shit out of them and make them fly, and then crash into the target.

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>Find target in underlying background magic of the world
>Fuck them with spells without being anywhere near them
>Send someone to collect the corpse if needed

Summon ravens, use them as spotters for extreme range guided magic missiles. Or have the ravens themselves carry the magic missiles.

>>53026743

In VtM, the drones were the player characters and the controller was cackling in torpor "all according to plan".

In D&D, the drone controller class is druids.

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>>53027240
Ravens? Surely you mean Crebain from Dunland

Remotely piloted golems, driven by broken-down veterans from the conventional warrior.

Only people warped into strong PTSD and hate are considered loyal enough to serve the magocracy unquestionably.

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>>53026743
Literally Warforged. Actually a campaign with a party of all Warforged run like the Bolo series would be pretty cool.
Basically intelligent weapons that can seem more human than their creators.

>>53026743
> What's the fantasy equivalent of drone warfare
Scry and Die.

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>neighboring government's wizards figure out how to make familiars deliver ranged spells
>every bird in your country is now a potential fireball air strike waiting to happen

>>53028453
Fuck off spess elves