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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1158701" data-attributes="member: 994">Hey, it's all good! I think, though, we're going to have to respect that we have different views of their actions. You are the only one blessed (hopefully) with a complete understanding of the situation. Garret can only deal with those facts presented and try to put them together in a way that makes sense. Early on, the goblins were acting as expected. The last few battles have, to me, shown them with very different tactics. I will admit that a lot of my difference of opinion stems from the placement of those 4 flanking goblins. You're right that they didn't have to reveal themselves, and you're also right that they may have thought they had the upper hand. However, the tide of battle turned against them fairly quickly, AFTER they'd revealed themselves. Faced with opponents they couldn't likely beat (which I hope they realized after losing their advantages of numbers & surprise, as well as their leader) they kept on fighting LONG...let me say that again...LONG after I thought they'd give up or try to make a break for it. Those were my thoughts during the battle. Finding out immediately afterward that the goblins started out in dead end positions was a very nice powdered sugar icing on the cake. Goblins aren't the brightest, agreed, but given their cowardly sense of self-preservation I just can't believe most goblins would stay in that kind of position. You think suicidal is too strong of a word. I don't use it lightly. If they didn't reveal themselves and if they weren't discovered and if they were able to stop a group of attackers that has not only made it through their patrols, camps, watchposts but penetrated the depths of their keep...THEN they would have nothing to worry about being up that creek without a paddle (or a corridor without an escape hatch). I give them more credit than that. They aren't that stupid, IMO. So I'm left looking for reasons why they'd agree to such a foolhardy plan. With Garret's training and background he believes they must be well-disciplined soldiers who are willing to lay down their lives following orders. That's not a Neutral Evil type of creature. DrSpunj</blockquote>

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