For anyone interested, here are the first four of my homebrew "redcoats", mean and tough human soldiers serving a wicked Prince.
I'm giving them higher than normal damage for a couple reasons. First, they're brutes and that's their shtick - I want them to be scary but fall quick. Second, I avoid using more than 1 or 2 soldiers per battle so the PCs won't be distracted from wailing on the minions. Third, the party has 7 players with 2 leaders. Fourth, I want to encourage tactical thinking - you don't want to get flanked by a bunch of these guys.
Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?259968-Homebrew-Humans-(Heroic-Tier)#ixzz2lICuNa44
