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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1157321" data-attributes="member: 994">All, no. Most, yeah, I think so. Especially recently.  Each battle with them has shown an improvement in their tactics and behavior. The few we encountered on the road south from Eaglesford broke nearly after we killed the first one. Each successive battle has required us to take out more and/or take out the leaders of each band before the remainder scattered and ran. Last session this pattern culminated with Garret and Kytum-Up killing the ballista crew and subduing the leader (your description, Nail, not ours) of the goblins. The 4 goblins flanking the water/caltrop corridor were in dead end passages with no chance of escape (since the secret doors in those chambers Riva believes are unusable or perhaps not even identified by the goblins), yet despite all odds they fought nearly "until the bitter end". Their leader was down, they had no chance of escape, they had lost their advantages of surprise and numbers when we had first their leader then Kytum-Up demand their surrender. Did they lay down their weapons? No, not until we had taken out 2 more of them (after another 30+" of real-time battle) and they were facing multiple ranged weapons at near point blank range. These goblins are exceptionally disciplined, exhibiting far more Lawful tendencies than any of us have reason to expect from them. They fight more like very well-trained army units rather than creatures whose advantages are limited to overwhelming numbers and ambushes. Their tactics in the forest made sense: surprise & ambush us, then cut out when they'd either done enough damage and/or we took too many of them out to be comfortable. Now they're utilizing near suicidal tactics. They have become far more organized (hence Lawful) and far more effective because of it. If they can keep baiting us into their traps, we might as well kill each other and save them the trouble. Just my 4 coppers, of course! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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