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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7106321" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Use a realistically-large map. None of these dinky 120' maps. Even a parking lot is usually 500' across, much less a whole adventuring location like an orcish warcamp.Have enemies exploit cover and stealth.Have enemies exploit nighttime darkness. SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for orcs and wargs should be to operate aggressively at night when enemy bowmen cannot see them coming, so that Orcish Aggression (extra movement) can be used to best effect.Use larger groups of enemies (party should be heavily outnumbered if they all manage to link up). If they take ranged fire, fall back behind total cover, get reinforcements, and assault when visibility conditions are favorable (see above RE: nighttime).Use mounted enemies (regular horse = 120' free movement every round when it Dashes).Use flying enemies and exploit the fact that falling is not restricted by movement speeds--there's nothing to prevent e.g. a dragon from diving down (&quot;falling&quot;) 1000' out of the sun on its turn, stopping its fall 60' above the archer, breathing fire on everything in a 60' cone (so, 30' radius of devastation), and then spending 80' of flying movement to fly out of thrown weapon range.Use enemies mounted on flying dragons. Hello, githyanki! (Now you know why gith can all cast Jump. It's for aerial boarding actions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7106321, member: 6787650"] Use a realistically-large map. None of these dinky 120' maps. Even a parking lot is usually 500' across, much less a whole adventuring location like an orcish warcamp. Have enemies exploit cover and stealth. Have enemies exploit nighttime darkness. SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for orcs and wargs should be to operate aggressively at night when enemy bowmen cannot see them coming, so that Orcish Aggression (extra movement) can be used to best effect. Use larger groups of enemies (party should be heavily outnumbered if they all manage to link up). If they take ranged fire, fall back behind total cover, get reinforcements, and assault when visibility conditions are favorable (see above RE: nighttime). Use mounted enemies (regular horse = 120' free movement every round when it Dashes). Use flying enemies and exploit the fact that falling is not restricted by movement speeds--there's nothing to prevent e.g. a dragon from diving down ("falling") 1000' out of the sun on its turn, stopping its fall 60' above the archer, breathing fire on everything in a 60' cone (so, 30' radius of devastation), and then spending 80' of flying movement to fly out of thrown weapon range. Use enemies mounted on flying dragons. Hello, githyanki! (Now you know why gith can all cast Jump. It's for aerial boarding actions. :)) [/QUOTE]

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