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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 4226738" data-attributes="member: 47776">We've seen epic-level minions, yes?  That would tend towards the ridiculous end of the scale in terms of minions.I'll turn it around.  Of course that mumak (advanced dire elephant) exists solely to smash through your lines but then be slain in a single dramatic action.  Likewise, the Witch-King of Angmar is obviously a minion; he dies in a single stroke after his defenses are lowered by the low-level hobbit's Daily (and with the flanking).  I mean, that makes sense; there are nine nazgul, after all, so some of them have to be minions in order for the encounter to be balanced.And as for me personally, I haven't seen enough to pick out a coherent sense of minion versus nonminion status.  I have seen several crude attempts to approximate a cinematic feel encoded into the rules, and I have seen several movies in which great beasts were felled with titanic single blows.  Given this, I'd not be terribly surprised if we did have huge-and-above animal minions.</blockquote>