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<blockquote data-quote="FreeXenon" data-source="post: 2304297" data-attributes="member: 6228"><p><strong>Franky, Male Halfling</strong></p><p></p><p>To Percy, Fortin, and Lindal</p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">When the Horde Gatherer "Kog the Brutal" gathered some 300 years ago he trained his horde in ambushing and used it to great effect. Kog was originally trained by the Humanic Prince Braeus as a part of a special scout and skirmish squad during the Trollwars, and was used to harry troll scouts.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">It is said that Kog left the employ of Prince Braeus when the trolls offered him a better deal. More power and leadership. They tasked him with unifying the orks to help in their war with the Elves, Dwarves, and Humans in the area. This proved to be their undoing as Kog's ambition knew no limits. He turned on the Troll King Trankalis during the pivotal Battle of Three-Spell Forest and the king appropriately rended him into little pieces. The ork's did not notice what happened as it happened so fast and kept up the fight which nearly decimated both sides (orks and trolls). This allowed the civilzed races to retreat and regroup. They came back 4 days later to clean up what was left of Kog's Coup.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">Other hordes and tribes - goblin, ork, troll, and others throughout history have been good at ambushing and have utilized it as a core part of their strategem. Ambushes become less likely as their numbers grow becasue their confidence grows proportionally with their numbers.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">Given how organized they seemed to be in their attack of the caravan I would not dismiss an ambush all together. We may want to keep our eyes open for counter scouts.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Franky's smiles embarrassingly, realizing that he may have been talking to much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek! :o" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> HE pulls out what is left of the Applewine, Velvet Cheese and bread and hands it out for eveyone to partake. </p><p>"<span style="color: YellowGreen">I am thinking that we will soon need to hunt for food, unless we brought provisions. We can munch on what I have while we advance - no need to stop?</span>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FreeXenon, post: 2304297, member: 6228"] [b]Franky, Male Halfling[/b] To Percy, Fortin, and Lindal "[COLOR=YellowGreen]When the Horde Gatherer "Kog the Brutal" gathered some 300 years ago he trained his horde in ambushing and used it to great effect. Kog was originally trained by the Humanic Prince Braeus as a part of a special scout and skirmish squad during the Trollwars, and was used to harry troll scouts.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=YellowGreen]It is said that Kog left the employ of Prince Braeus when the trolls offered him a better deal. More power and leadership. They tasked him with unifying the orks to help in their war with the Elves, Dwarves, and Humans in the area. This proved to be their undoing as Kog's ambition knew no limits. He turned on the Troll King Trankalis during the pivotal Battle of Three-Spell Forest and the king appropriately rended him into little pieces. The ork's did not notice what happened as it happened so fast and kept up the fight which nearly decimated both sides (orks and trolls). This allowed the civilzed races to retreat and regroup. They came back 4 days later to clean up what was left of Kog's Coup.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=YellowGreen]Other hordes and tribes - goblin, ork, troll, and others throughout history have been good at ambushing and have utilized it as a core part of their strategem. Ambushes become less likely as their numbers grow becasue their confidence grows proportionally with their numbers.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=YellowGreen]Given how organized they seemed to be in their attack of the caravan I would not dismiss an ambush all together. We may want to keep our eyes open for counter scouts.[/COLOR]" Franky's smiles embarrassingly, realizing that he may have been talking to much. :o HE pulls out what is left of the Applewine, Velvet Cheese and bread and hands it out for eveyone to partake. "[COLOR=YellowGreen]I am thinking that we will soon need to hunt for food, unless we brought provisions. We can munch on what I have while we advance - no need to stop?[/COLOR]" [/QUOTE]
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