how would it be to defend against the cavalry charge if it were then equipped with curved shields? Wouldn't it be fun to defend against such a charge the firewall you put up to stop it is instead rolled in front of the charge, as the curvature of the shields pushes it along? we weren't thinking of enhancing no. The only way, using formaroth's magic that we can think of to make non-mage "supersoldiers" would require modifying them with something like restoration magic, which would end up making them into abominations. A process fraught with danger and decidedly unpopular with all other mages. Though it'd probably just result in a lot of modified corpses. over time and across different settings, we've ended up collecting a decent amount of lore for war magic. What (usually) works, what (usually) doesn't, what is impressive, and so on. That's probably part of why we made Urd not be a war mage.