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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6034208" data-attributes="member: 1165"><p>Why are the goblins acting that way?</p><p></p><p>There's been some military situations like this in history. Cao Cao faced off the Black Mountain Bandits this way (after losing his first battle). His troops, which did <strong>not</strong> outnumber the bandits, but were probably better 1 on 1, split into 12 groups, and each group would make a 2 hour attack on the bandit's camp, one after the other. The bandits literally got no rest. I'm not sure why the bandits didn't just crush Cao Cao's troops, but I presume Cao Cao's troops had greater mobility. (He liked cavalry, and bandits are usually based on foot.) The bandits were eventually exhausted and surrendered. Instead of killing them, Cao Cao made them part of his army.</p><p></p><p>The goblin behavior is pretty strange though. If they outnumber the heroes, why not just attack them? Perhaps at long range with bows. They have spellcasters, so why aren't they using attack spells instead of Pyrotechnics? If the heroes rush forward as a group, eventually they can escape (killing dozens of goblins as they do so), or at least face a more traditional fight with wolf-mounted goblins.</p><p></p><p>This is essentially a capture scenario, which means the goblins have to have massive superiority. Are they actually planning on capturing the PCs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 6034208, member: 1165"] Why are the goblins acting that way? There's been some military situations like this in history. Cao Cao faced off the Black Mountain Bandits this way (after losing his first battle). His troops, which did [b]not[/b] outnumber the bandits, but were probably better 1 on 1, split into 12 groups, and each group would make a 2 hour attack on the bandit's camp, one after the other. The bandits literally got no rest. I'm not sure why the bandits didn't just crush Cao Cao's troops, but I presume Cao Cao's troops had greater mobility. (He liked cavalry, and bandits are usually based on foot.) The bandits were eventually exhausted and surrendered. Instead of killing them, Cao Cao made them part of his army. The goblin behavior is pretty strange though. If they outnumber the heroes, why not just attack them? Perhaps at long range with bows. They have spellcasters, so why aren't they using attack spells instead of Pyrotechnics? If the heroes rush forward as a group, eventually they can escape (killing dozens of goblins as they do so), or at least face a more traditional fight with wolf-mounted goblins. This is essentially a capture scenario, which means the goblins have to have massive superiority. Are they actually planning on capturing the PCs? [/QUOTE]
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