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Having cleared out the goblin camp from the inside and exited out the back way, I decided to go around to the front and take on the Goblins in the courtyard. Given that should you try and take them on from inside you quickly get overwhelmed I used the Bridge to my advantage, by covering it in oil and picking the goblins off with Archers and spells as they try to get across the bridge.






1. Send your wizard halfway down the bridge and cast Minor Illusion so the two goblins guarding the gate go to investigate... once they get there it will trigger the battle.

2. Once it's the wizards turn, throw a bottle of oil where the goblins who investigated are (careful not to hit the torch or it will explode) then either walk/jump or use Misty Step to go back to the rest of the party who will then roll initiative and join the battle.

3. Use either Wizards Grease spell or another bottle of oil to cover more of the bridge until most of the bridge is covered.

4. Pick off any advancing goblins with your archers/spells.

5. Cast Fog Cloud close to the gate to blind any goblins/ogre there and to prevent the goblins behind the cloud from advancing (they won't enter the cloud)

6. Continue to pick off the goblins.

7. when all the goblins you can reach with ranged attacks are dead, use the wizard to cast a different spell which will mean the fog will stop manifesting, this will allow the remaining goblins/ogre to advance.

8. continue to kill them with ranged attacks.

9. when all goblins/ogre is dead, firebolt the bridge to burn the oil, then use your cleric to create water and put out the fire.

10. Cross the bridge and take out the remaining few goblins using melee and ranged attacks.

I am using Stadia and on the controller, I couldn't save without it crashing, though if I jumped onto the PC version of stadia it would save without a problem.

I had a great deal of fun doing this

Absolutely. The walls where the bridge meets the temple courtyard make a wonderful choke point, and how there's debris and missing chunks in the bridge, I think it's very intentionally designed to be used this way.

The missing chunks in the bridge are great, too, because the gobbos won't hesitate to shove you off then if you aren't careful

That's exactly what happened to me the first time I tried to cross the bridge, a goblin archer on the wall knocked one of my characters off the bridge into oblivion. That's how I got the idea to do this

I'd like to try that! But what's "the back way"?

Maybe it's from the elevated area where you can sneak into the temple?

Yeah, maybe, though I've never managed to leave through there without being spotted my goblins.

Oh... It just occurred to me that I could just fast travel to the blighted village and return to the goblin camp from there. Feels cheap but still works.

Just go up on the fortress wall and kill everything from there using crossbows. Yes, they added the possibility for some goblins to climb the wall or to use tunnels, but they are too few to stand a chance against you.

The back way is through the door in the chamber where the Goblin mage attempt to cough cough remove your parasite.

Summom Lump and friends

Awesome tks for sharing I am definitely going to give this a go.

Most welcome Remember to avoid the torches or the plan is a bust

Worked like a charm. Was my first time clearing the whole Goblin Camp, does anyone have any idea just how many enemies there are in the Camp total? It just seemed to go on and on both inside and out.

Glad to hear it

Yeah, I wondered the same about the total numbers, I think there are a few more than 20 in the courtyard if you count the ones on the top and on either side.

No idea about the inside, but I bet it's roughly the same numbers.

Either way, it's an accomplishment to kill them all

Lump‘s ogres took a good chunk of the goblins after my party came through the portal. No survivors besides my party, so I got my money back plus a nice headpiece.