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Old 04-30-2019, 05:58 PM
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Keep in mind too, that in the real world you avoid attacking the enemy unless you can get odds of at the very least, 3 to 1 in your favour. In many situations, the attacking commander tries to get odds of 5 to 1 or more in his favour.
So having said that, impress upon your players that their character's military training reinforces the idea of only attacking when you have 3 times as many troops as the enemy.

Scale your encounters at that level in the beginning so that they can have a few achievable victories and then when they start to get better with the game rules and more importantly, their tactics, increase the enemy size so that the players slowly lose their 3 to 1 advantage (and tell them that it's better to run away from battles they cannot win).
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