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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peni Griffin" data-source="post: 3660633" data-attributes="member: 50322">What is this, a broken record?  The guy doesn't want to get rid of the healer.  I'm running a bigger, higher level party myself, and beefing up the numbers is an important part of the mix.  Make sure every guard post has enough people/monsters to cover all the shifts, for one thing, and make sure you play the grunts as a team, not as individuals flailing around.  Let them cover each other to get chances to drink their CMW potions, fire and fall back as a unit, use aid another, give each other flanking bonuses, the works.  Increasing the numbers in each encounter by the same percentage that your party is larger than the assumed four-player-standard is a simple calculation.Study the troops assigned to some encounters - particularly the Sack of Drellin's Ferry, that the module doesn't intend you to have to use - and see what troops are used in them that can be applied elsewhere.  Can you use wyverns (those poison stingers are nasty!) as air support?  Are there more manticores and minotaurs in the Horde, or did Koth have the only ones?  How many giants does the Horde have?  Should mindbenders be deployed as spies?  What's the best use of the mobile worgriders?  Should Kharn have a warmount?  Should the lizardmen have poison arrows?  Should each fighting unit have a spellcaster?  Not all the NPCs are equipped optimally for the jobs they do.  Ulwai has no magical instruments, for instance; nobody has much in the way of communication gear.  Devise a means for troops on the ground to talk to each other at a distance, and they can keep tabs on the good guys, avoiding or ambushing them as appropriate, until your players want to strangle you.  I know it'd get on my players' nerves if they were hunting down raiding parties, and the raiding parties kept hitting villages the day after they leave!Be sure and adjust the Horde's tactics every time survivors have a chance to report on their defeats.  Your PCs will learn from experience; the bad guys can, too, and can devise specific tactics to address the strengths of your PCs.</blockquote>

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