Historical armies vs nonhuman Sci-fi/fantasy armies

[loomer]

A pretty standard ability for mages is actually being able to nmake non-porous magical shields. Chlorine gas is useless against that. Don't forget that mages are also associated with making their poison gas.

How does that work? Do the shields still let in oxygen?

Not a damn idea myself.

[The Yosemite Bear]

it appears to act as a rebreather as those under protection of a force shield/force wall are uneffected by poison gas attacks, including ships with bad air, underground gas pockets, even sea water.

[Playerofeve]

Here's an idea for a versus match:

The ten thousand Uruk-hai from Helms deep vs. A full Roman legion, both sides with full supporting gear and personnel(Rome circa 100 AD).

That would depend on a lot of things? How competent are the generals? How much time does each side have to prepare and how much knowledge do they have of the other side?

Sorry for the long response time but I'm thinking a Battle of Carthage senario, with Scipio Africanus as the General, and for more leeway I'll make it two legions, since a full Roman legion consists of about five thousand men I think ,anyway both armies have known about each other for at least a week and the Romans are the attackers.

[kilopi505]

So...is this topic dead?

Who will win? Minbari on the ground or Japanese Samurai, most probably the Shinsengumi.