Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5823324" data-attributes="member: 8835">I would expect the BK to have patrols going around his keep regularly anyway.  Seems like 1 mile out isn't that far out to notice something happened there.Plus, the spell casters and familiar should be doing arial and magical looking out.These practices should alert him to trouble (like finding the scene of a fight along the road).From there, the BK has 2 choices, act like a King or act like a Bandit.As a king, he'd send out 25% of his men as a show of force to stop "banditry" along the road.  He'd also TRY to be nice to the locals, because he's all legit and has roots in the community.  At least until that fails...As a bandit, he'll be setting up a trap to snare these guys, because he's played this game.As the Bandit King, he'll deploy both methods.  A large force is NOT likely to be targeted by the party, and in fact is likely to miss finding the party (because bandits hide from large armed forces).So the show of force will go through unmolested.  That'll really be a ruse to get them out into the field so they can go "stealthy" and circle back to the suspected target zone.after the proscribed time has gone by, the decoy will head out, and get to the suspected target zone so the PCs can attack.  Remember, the show of force is moving into position to flank and thus destroy the PCs.Alternates to the plan.  The show of force can head into town, past the target zone, and prepare in town a decoy wagon to head on in. Thus, the decoy returns to the keep AS disguised members of the show of force.since the BK has casters, he really needs to scry and recon as much as possible to get a sense of what strength these bandits are.  He will then send twice as much power as the enemy to ensure victory.</blockquote>

Verification