How do you handle larger-scale war sequences, the sort where

>>54214822
Just base the war effort on the scale of the party success.

Did they come through with one or two minor wounds and huge ego boosts? ARmy did too. If they did prep-work beyond the war sequence, factor in how clever and thorough it was. Scale it to the relative force strengths involved - a city state vs an empire with the party giving and rolling 100% is still going to be a messy fight. The city state will be a ruin, even though they won.

>>54214822

I have a set of rules that let me move large groups of pieces individually but allows me to make a single attack roll for them and assign them a single defense stat/health bar. If you properly size the type of piece used in the groups result is a pretty cinematic clash of armies where players still have full freedom to play normally and can still make huge, meaningful plays.

>>54214822
If there are no rules for it in the system, then just narratively.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but quite helpful nonetheless: https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.ca/2017/05/osr-medieval-stalemate-simulator-or-six.html?m=1

>>54214822
Barbarians of Lemuria (Mythic) has a handy little system that could be easily ported to other games.

Basically different battle objectives give you points toward victory. You need a certain number of victory points to win the day. You need more or less depending on how the two opposing forces line up (ie, the underdog needs to make up more victory points by doing stuff like assassinating enemy generals and so forth).

>>54214822
In one of our campaigns we switched to kings of war for the big battles.

Worked well but it was a D&D campaign so we wanted to get back to D&D after a few sessions.

>>54215464
This

The exact same way the party is just a small part of the overall quest to save the world from the Big Bad Adversary in the setting yet can rise from a ragtag group of lowly adventurers to saviors.

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>>54214822
I play 3.5 and just make each party member in charge of a unit, all units are level 2 fighters.

If heroes run off solo I describe their attacks as landing on enemy units and they see people injured and mad but if they fight using their unit then damage equals dead soldiers 1-1

Works decently