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Originally posted by Nerull:
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Originally posted by Sythe:
Well an Orc army can beat an undead for two reasons.
1.Orcs are brav and they all believe in honor and all that stuff. So they are not likely to have a morale failure. And fight to very end until it seems the battle they are fighting is completely hopeless.
2.Orcish Clerics [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Turn undead take out a chunk of the undead army.
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Orcs believe in honor? Go back and read Tolkien or the D&D books. Orcs don't believe in honor; they believe in strength. They believe that the strong rule and the weak follow. For them, strength is everything. That is why female orcs (who average being smaller than the male orcs, similar to humans) are relegated to keeping the caves and having children. They will gladly stab each other in the back as long as they can get away with it. The third edition D&D rightly makes them Chaotic Evil (they were Lawful Evil in 2nd edition, but that really made no sense when their only organization is whoever can bully the others).
Orcs may have some (few) clerics, but how many arcane spellcasters do they have? None usually; they don't take well to arcane magic. They may turn a bunch of the army (taking control away, since they are evil clerics), but how well will those evil clerics fare when that enemy Death Spell or Fireball from one of the liches takes them out? You have to be pretty close to turn undead. [/QUOTE]All to true. But you must know that Clerics have many verstile spells against undead. Clerics are the bane against undeads AND they would cast spells that would empower their infantry. A bunch of bones and a few pieces of flesh don't stand a chance against a full grown green mean muscular Orc who can swipe of a head. They would reach the Lilches in no time. The Lilch's would be to busy handling the foes closer to them than to bother with clerics at the back.