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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5865566" data-attributes="member: 42582">In A Wizard of Earthsea, Ged - who at that point of the story has just taken his first posting as a wizard - kills mulitple young dragons in a series of single attacks, before then outwitting Yevaud in negotiations. So there is a literary precedent for dragon minions!I don't have anything to say in response to your second paragraph, other than "when they swarm they get easier to kill!" (although half damage from melee attacks preserves some semblance of verisimilitude here - like minions, swarms also favour caster AoEs).But in response to your first paragraph, I recently ran an encounter with a hobgoblin phalanx, and anticipate running another one soon. The phalanx formation gives a rationale for the swarm shape, and when the Huge swarm overruns a PC (using the ability of swarms to enter enemy spaces) it does give that feeling of being surrounded on all sides by spear-wielding hobgoblins hiding behind their shields! (My swarm also had the ability to regenerate by absorbing an adjacent hobgoblin minion - reinforcements!)So I like minions, but I also like swarms!</blockquote>