Reply To: Does the historical period dictate the minimum and/or maximum size of a battle ?

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Sure … soldiers are able to act as the situation befits, but the more specialized units may not be as good at ‘regular’ soldiering as the ones that only ever use the same basic gear.

I wonder if it would be possible to design a system where you design an army list, but only get a ‘random’ selection of ‘volunteers’ to use in a skirmish sized battle.

The ‘random’ selection would have to take into account units not using their designated gear (so no pikes, but alternative equipment)

Anyways … while the answer to the first part of the topic appears to be more of a “no, but you can’t just field every troop” instead of a hard “nope” … we still don’t have an answer for the opposite.

ie : are there things that only ever exist as ‘small skirmishes’ or is everything always in service of a bigger operation ?