Level Up (A5E) Horde Monsters: Making Sure I understand

[Stalker0]

Let’s Look At Horde Monsters! — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

A horde monster is a new type of Level Up opponent that facilitates quick, exciting battles against large numbers of opponents.

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Ok reading the article, just making sure I understand how to use horde monsters appropriately with the encounter building guidelines.

Ok so 4 level 15 PCs get a hard encounter budget of 30. That is two standard CR 15 monsters.

Since this is a 5-20 CR range monster, it takes 5 hordes to replace one standard monster.


So the example of the Kobold horde (CR15). Basically 10 Kobold Warrior "Hordes" would be a hard encounter for this group. Am I doing that right?

 

[lichmaster]

So the example of the Kobold horde (CR15). Basically 10 Kobold Warrior "Hordes" would be a hard encounter for this group. Am I doing that right?

Yes, with only one small correction: they're not "hordes" but "horde monsters".
Initially I got confused too by the name. Horde monsters really are treated as individuals, there's no automatic overlap wrt squads, although the two can go hand in hand (i.e. you can make a squad of horde monsters).