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Combat Tactics

          Fighting cave goblins is less like   ghting an army and more like
            ghting the tide; they do not   ght as individuals, but as one
          enormous body.    ey pay little heed to self-preservation but, like a
          colony of insects,   ght in the manner which best serves the troop
          as a whole and the safety of the king in particular. Larger cave
          goblins in particular are bred to   ght, and serve no purpose other
          than to defend the troop with their lives.    eir numbers are usually
          so vast that losses from any one skirmish are incidental, so they
          can a  ord to simply throw bodies at the problem until it goes away.
          Morale is usually not a problem, but cave goblins will retreat if
          signi  cant losses would make them less able to defend a more
          strategically important location. Unlike other goblins, a cave goblin
          retreat is relatively organized, with smaller goblins simultaneously
          breaking away from combat while larger goblins cover their escape.
          If they are retreating to deal with another threat, the opposite is
          true; the larger goblins move to deal with the new problem, and
          the smaller goblins attempt to bog down any pursuers with weight
          of numbers.

          Cave Goblin Warbands
          Use these tables to generate a cave goblin encounter quickly
          and easily, either by rolling a d8 or selecting an appropriate
          challenge rating.
          CR 1–4
            d8   CR   Group Members
            1     1   2 cave goblins
            2     1   4 cave goblin runts, 1 cave goblin
            3     2   4 cave goblin runts, 2 cave goblins, 1 cave
                      goblin brute
            4     2   4 feral cave goblins
            5     3   3 a   icted cave goblins
            6     3   4 cave goblins, 2 cave goblin brutes
            7     4   8 cave goblin runts, 4 cave goblins, 2 cave
                      goblin brutes
            8     4   8 cave goblin runts, 2 cave goblins, 1 cave
                      goblin king

          CR 5–8
            d8   CR   Group Members
            1     5   8 cave goblins, 2 cave goblin brutes
            2     5   5 a   icted cave goblins
            3     6   6 cave goblin brutes, 6 feral cave goblins
            4     6   8 cave goblin runts, 4 cave goblins, 2 cave goblin
                      brutes, 1 cave goblin king
            5     7   7 a   icted cave goblins
            6     7   16 cave goblin runts, 6 cave goblin brutes, 1 cave
                      goblin king
            7     8   12 cave goblin runts, 10 cave goblins, 3 cave
                      goblin brutes
            8     8   6 cave goblins, 6 feral cave goblins, 1 cave
                      goblin king


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