Thomas Shey
Legend
It does ... unless the lower power enemies can't reasonably damage the characters and the characters don't feel threatened. Unless they can all be blasted by a single fireball spell.
Then it's not interesting tactics - it's just giving the heroes the opportunity to flex.
Well some of that has to do with battle layout. You can have a collection of opponents that could be all taken out by one fireball, but if they don't have to cluster up, that doesn't matter much.