>>95869889
Ive had an idea knocking around in my mind thats somewhere between a skirmish wargame and an rpg, I think id call it "Lance". In reference to the medieval squad centered around a heavily armed men at arms/knight. In it you take control of a lance, which consists of usually like 5 men, plus or minus 2. Your PC, some kind of heavily armed noble or someone of enough means to be indiependently wealthy enough to have thier own lance, a junior combatent, something like a squire who fights alongside you, a ranged servant like an archer, then 2 non combatants who take care of your group.

So a party of 3 players will really be a group of like 15. having elements of small group management and small group tactics. You and your lance act on the same initiative, so you can do combined arms under your own indivigual control, and you can command your non combat servents to retrieve weapons for you or to watch your flanks and warn you of danger, or retrieve you if you get injured.

I think it would be an interesting dynamic that isnt explored that much in either skirmish games or rpgs. closest thing I could think of is hirelings in osr dnd

So when a medieval battle says there was 900 or so men at arms, is it reasonable to assume the number of actual men in that formation might actually be like 2-3 times as many including the fighting support staff in their "lance". Which I think tended to include 1-2 other fighting men and 1-2 purely non-combat support staff. so that 900 men at arms formation might actually be 2000 active combatants and maybe 1000 support staff.