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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dei" data-source="post: 3211526" data-attributes="member: 40300">Remember, the point is to challenge the players, not kill them. It's easy to TPK a party of level 4 PCs with kobolds, even without class levels however that is not what he's after. Besides which, if he equips and stats each kobold as has been suggested the PCs are going to have trouble fighting them 4 on 4, let alone 4 on 14. Besides which, equipping an army of even as few as a hundred kobolds with scale mail, tower shields and all the other equipement mentioned here would be monumentally expensive (trust me, I tried it once with a human militia). If you look at medieval europe in every army you'd have perhaps a tenth, if that, of the soldiers with this type of equipment and those were the ones rich enough to get it for themselves. The rest who couldn't afford their own equipment would be given a pointy piece of metal, some padded leather and a shield if they were lucky. The archers wouldn't even have that unless they managed to scrounge it from a battlefield.They've been compared to the VC, your average VC had an AK, a thin, mass-produced uniform, a tin helmet, maybe a flash bang or other grenade and that's it. Their special forces would have side-arms, MGs, etc and this is reflected in what the OP described. The officers and special forces he mentioned will have scale mail, tower shields, etc, the rest, leather, shortsword, spear and shield, and that's just because they're family. I think what you described initially sounds like a good plan. Modelling their tactics on the VC is sound though, hit and run, tunnels, attrition strategies, all very kobold and should be more than enough to keep the PCs on their toes.</blockquote>

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