Tony Vargas
Legend
Combat Superiority cuts down on the enemies' options when trying to surround the fighter, too. Even a 15' wide corridor, for instance, would mean provoking if more than 3 tried to engage at once.By the numbers can a lone level 1 fighter who did take cleave take down 8 level 1 minions? (And how badly would they eat one who didnt have it)
Now without some choke point limiting their attacks I think the answer is still no... using the battle field well however makes all the difference.
If he can choke point them down to only 2 attacking per round.... in 3 rounds he would kill 4 and take only 3 hits in 6 rounds the other 4 would go down and he would be on the edge having taken 6 minion class wounds ie still ouch but pass the potion or dwarven second wind.
Of course, then there's ranged minions - then you're likely to do a Boromir instead of a Conan....