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<blockquote data-quote="Filcher" data-source="post: 4483537" data-attributes="member: 38251">Awesome post. This is the sort of style of thread I have been dying to read. Not hyper rules intensive, ala math proofs, but good general strategy stuff useful to DMs trying to smooth out a new rule set. Re: Minions. One of the things that occured to me while reading your post is how I use minions in combat. To date they've always been the &quot;charge in and lock everybody down&quot; type, ala the kobolds from KotS. But after reading your post, I realize that while that tactic was perfect for the kobold minions, it's stupid of me to apply that same tactic to all minions. So for my next session, my players can expect to be ambushed by a half a dozen archer minions, who will all spread out around the party, and wing barbed arrows at the group. Meanwhile, some brutes will be the ones sent in to lock the PCs down, forcing the PCs to decide how they are going to go about taking out these minions, one at a tim, while they are getting hammered on by some thugs... We'll see how it goes. (Ps. I'm sure this is a basic 4E tactic known to every other DM but me, but darnit, I haven't tried it yet.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Filcher, post: 4483537, member: 38251"] Awesome post. This is the sort of style of thread I have been dying to read. Not hyper rules intensive, ala math proofs, but good general strategy stuff useful to DMs trying to smooth out a new rule set. Re: Minions. One of the things that occured to me while reading your post is how I use minions in combat. To date they've always been the "charge in and lock everybody down" type, ala the kobolds from KotS. But after reading your post, I realize that while that tactic was perfect for the [I]kobold[/I] minions, it's stupid of me to apply that same tactic to all minions. So for my next session, my players can expect to be ambushed by a half a dozen archer minions, who will all spread out around the party, and wing barbed arrows at the group. Meanwhile, some brutes will be the ones sent in to lock the PCs down, forcing the PCs to decide how they are going to go about taking out these minions, one at a tim, while they are getting hammered on by some thugs... We'll see how it goes. (Ps. I'm sure this is a basic 4E tactic known to every other DM but me, but darnit, I haven't tried it yet.) [/QUOTE]

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