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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1232185" data-attributes="member: 3400">So why would creatures attack an obviously superior force? I think people have already gone over the question of why a force might not be so obviously superior, but there are plenty of other motivations. Some of which have been touched on.Behavior is a notoriously difficult thing to understand at times, particularly when violence is involved. Why would a couple of Special Forces snipers land at a Black Hawk crash site in Mogadishu knowing that there was no backup immediately available and that many enemy personnel were closing in? Probably because they thought that, though the odds were long, they might survive it or at least accomplish their primary goal of protecting injured helicopter crewmembers. A pretty noble reason, really.Maybe a couple of orcs in the lair are attacking to protect the rest of the tribe even if they are probably going to die.Why would Imperial Japan, with a notorously bad military procurement system and considerably lower industrial capacity vulnerable to interruptions in shipping, attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor? Some historians think it was to deliver a sharp enough punch that it would scare the Americans away from defending the Philippines plus, probably, hubris.Maybe a couple of orcs think that a vigorous-enough attack will keep a larger group of PCs off balance and scare them into retreating.Why would demoralized German soldiers on the Eastern Front stand up to a raging Soviet juggernaut with a huge advantage in numbers of men, guns, and tanks? To defend their homes and loved ones from being despoiled as they despolied the Soviets and, possibly, because the Nazi leadership has squads of SS troops patrolling behind the lines hanging deserters. Noble, to a certain extent because most of those being defended are innocent of the war crimes sparking the barbarity of the war, but also partly out of fear of the oppressive state behind them.Maybe the couple of orcs are more afraid of the consequences of running away should they be caught by their superiors than they are of dying at the PC's hands.If you can't come up with a reason for the orcs doing what they're doing, they should either be trying to find an advantage for their attack or you aren't trying hard enough.</blockquote>

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