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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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