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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 4556560" data-attributes="member: 78547">Yeah, Kobold Skirmishers are deadly when used correctly.  They do 1d8 damage with a +6 to attack.  Mob Attack gives them a +1 bonus to hit per Kobold ally adjacent to the target, and then they get an extra 1d6 damage if they have Combat Advantage.In KotS I was playing an Axe and Shield Fighter with Scale armor, so that's a 19 AC.  During combat, I had 4 Kobolds adjacent to me, two of whom had me flanked (I hadn't read the MM at the time, so I didn't know how deadly this was).  So, let's take a look at how that plays out...The two Kobolds without CA have a +3 to hit, because of 3 allies adjacent to me, making for a +9.  On my AC of 19 that means they hit on a 10.  That's pretty good, and means they hit a little better than 50% of the time.The two Kobolds with CA both have a +5 to hit, because CA adds a +2 on top of the +3 from mob attack.  So that's a +11 to hit, meaning they hit on an 8.  That's really good.  They also do 1d8 (avg 4.5) + 1d6 (avg 3.5) damage when they hit.Now, IIRC, the two with CA hit and only one of the other two hit.  So that's 3d8 + 2d6 worth of damage, which on average is about 20.5 damage.  And then my party wonders why I got bloodied after one round of attacks.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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