Hobgoblins are highly organised, militaristic, orderly, and pitiless. Ruddy-furred, fanged, and muscular, they stand as tall as a large human. Although they are frequently found in the company of goblins, ogres, and other varieties of chaotic goblinoids, this is usually in a ruler relationship to them—hobgoblins thrive on order. A typical hobgoblin warrior wears mail and fights with shield and a sword, mace, or flail. Often they also carry halberds for fighting from the second rank of a formation, and a typical patrol will arm half their number with short bows. A squad will be lead by a sergeant. All will have horns to sound an alarm or summon aid. Hobgoblins are usually encountered as lone scouts and (rarely) scavenging deserters, squads patrolling their borders or on a military work detail, and in well-fortified lairs. They often settle and fortify where there are resources to be exploited, such as a mine, a timber forest, horses, or arable land. These resources are almost always worked by servant races or slaves, as such non-military menial labour is beneath the warrior class. Hobgoblins often domesticate fearsome creatures to serve as guards and to keep their workers terrified; examples include carnivorous apes and basilisks. Instinct: to subjugate and impose structure

• Fight in formation
• Summon reinforcements
• Drive the hordes before us according to plan
• Claim this place