Quote Originally Posted by Quertus View Post
Of course not! He fights them in a large, open room, where there is space for his summons, and to throw his AoE spells without hitting himself. Because he certainly doesn't want to fight them one at a time - he doesn't have enough spell slots for that.

That is, of course, assuming that the wizard has any tactical talent - something which should be a given for fighters; not so much for wizards.
a level 10 wizard with no tactical talent? highly doubtful.

unless we're falling into the "this is an npc so he doesn't need to follow the xp gaining rules" and both characters gained all 10 levels in a strictly academic environment (fighter at fighter school and wizard at wizard school), a typical adventurer wizard would have just as much tactical acumen as an adventurer fighter due to various experiences they've both encountered, but also have it paired with what is likely a higher intelligence and a larger scope of abilities to make use of it.

plus, not every fighter is tactical genius or even trained in tactics nor should it be expected for them to be. Our theoretical fighter could just as well be a thug who's strength attracted lesser thugs just as easily as him being actual Sun Tsu II (electric boogaloo) as the 2nd ed fighter class was, quite literally, "the class everyone who didn't qualify for any other class" due to stat requirements... it's kinda like the community college for PCs that takes in just about everyone to boost it's enrollment numbers: yeah there are a few people there who are genuinely talented, but it accepts darn near everyone.