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** The defenders utilize HerdHittingAttack that may include TheVirus, tearing big gaping holes in The Dark Lord's army with every blow. Or lots and lots of [[MoreDakka Dakka.]]

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** The defenders utilize HerdHittingAttack that may include TheVirus, tearing big gaping holes in The Dark Lord's army with every blow. Or lots and lots of [[MoreDakka Dakka.]]]] Or [[NukeEm a really freaking big boom]].
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** The Dark Lord's military backbone is composed by magically animated constructs. (like DemBones or {{Golem}}s) They are plentiful, easy to replace and can be rebuilt on the spot if the need arises.

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** The Dark Lord's military backbone is composed by magically animated constructs. constructs (like DemBones or {{Golem}}s) They are plentiful, easy to replace replace, [[FearlessUndead don't lose morale when they see their comrades slaughtered]], and can be rebuilt on the spot if the need arises.

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* '''Defied''': The Dark Lord marches towards the Shining City with his army, seeing only a small group of defenders is present. Despite this, he carefully plans his assault.

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* '''Defied''': The '''Defied''':
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Dark Lord marches towards the Shining City with his army, seeing only a small group of defenders is present. Despite this, he carefully plans his assault.assault.
** The defenders utilize HerdHittingAttack that may include TheVirus, tearing big gaping holes in The Dark Lord's army with every blow. Or lots and lots of [[MoreDakka Dakka.]]
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** TheHero gets a StatusBuff or a LifeDrain attack on a KillStreak, making such a target rich environment perfect for him.

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* '''Backfired''': The victorious army of goblins returns to Dark Lord's lands, and eat up all the victuals available, draining Dark Lord's resources.

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* '''Backfired''': '''Backfired''':
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The victorious army of goblins returns to Dark Lord's lands, and eat up all the victuals available, draining Dark Lord's resources.resources.
** The Dark Lord tries to put the same tactics to work [[EvilVsEvil against]] a little-known {{Necromancer}} to get rid of upstart powers, and thanks to said Necromancer being able to both drain the lifeforce of each individual goblin to empower himself ''and'' raise the resulting skeleton as a minion, the Dark Lord quickly turns him into the bigger threat entirely by mistake. Never just throw bodies at someone that can throw them back.

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* '''Implied''': The Shining Ones detect a massive cloud of dust approaching them well before they ever see the goblins.



* '''Implied''': The Shining Ones detect a massive cloud of dust approaching them well before they ever see the goblins.
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** There has been a well-known goblin attack, in which a thousand goblins attacked a fortress and destroyed it...except it turns out that this version is just propaganda coming from the general who didn't want to admit that his fortress was defeated by a force of only 90 goblins. Also, this general is agitating for recruiting more troops, and he's interested in the possibilities of fighting a legion of goblins with a legion of his own soldiers.


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** But once the Dark Lord hears the Shining Ones think they're being invaded by multi-thousand hordes of goblins, and how afraid they are upon hearing this, he decides the solution is to actually send that many troops in. And he has no problem sending in that many troops once he knows how good a strategy this is.
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* '''Backfired''': The victorious army of goblins returns to Dark Lord's lands, and eat up all the victuals available, draining Dark Lord's resourcds.

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* '''Backfired''': The victorious army of goblins returns to Dark Lord's lands, and eat up all the victuals available, draining Dark Lord's resourcds.resources.

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* '''Backfired''': The victorious army of goblins returns to Dark Lord's lands, and eat up all the victuals available, draining Dark Lord's resourcds.



* '''Played for Drama''': The goblins ''know'' they are expendable, and they discuss of their families, loved ones and children and their fates, and/or sing sad squaddie songs while marching to their inevitable doom.
* '''Implied''': The Shining Ones detect a massive cloud of dust approaching them well before they ever see the goblins.



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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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** Since goblins are so plentiful, the Dark Lord has no problem strapping bombs to them, making them horrifyingly radioactive, and/or infecting them with a veritable bouquet of incredibly virulent diseases before sending them into battle against the Shining Ones. The Shining Ones can easily defeat goblins in conventional combat, but the Dark Lord's ruthless tactics make it even more unpleasant than usual for everyone involved.

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** Since goblins are so plentiful, plentiful and so easy to replace, the Dark Lord has no problem strapping bombs to them, making them horrifyingly radioactive, and/or infecting them with a veritable bouquet of incredibly virulent diseases before sending them into battle against the Shining Ones. The Shining Ones can easily defeat goblins in conventional combat, but the Dark Lord's ruthless tactics make it even more unpleasant than usual for everyone involved.
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* '''Straight''': [[EvilOverlord The Dark Lord]] sends an massive army of weak goblins to overwhelm the Shining Ones.

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* '''Straight''': [[EvilOverlord The Dark Lord]] sends an a massive army of weak goblins to overwhelm the Shining Ones.

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* '''Subverted''': Aware of his goblin army's deficiencies, the Dark Lord decides to use his magic to make them stronger and more durable.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
**While the Dark Lord starts the battle with a screen of his plentiful goblins, the [[EliteMooks Shadow Knights]] that come after are the real linchpin of his tactics.
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Aware of his goblin army's deficiencies, the Dark Lord decides to use his magic to make them stronger and more durable.
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* '''Subverted''': Aware of his goblin army's deficiencies, the Dark Lord uses his magic to make them stronger and more durable.

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* '''Subverted''': Aware of his goblin army's deficiencies, the Dark Lord uses decides to use his magic to make them stronger and more durable.



** This still isn't enough to tip the scales. The Shining Ones continue to defeat the goblins with ease, so the Dark Lord decides to have them fight in gigantic hordes instead.

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** This still isn't enough to tip the scales. The Shining Ones continue to defeat the goblins with ease, so the Dark Lord changes his mind and decides to have them fight in gigantic hordes instead.
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* '''Straight''': The Dark Lord sends an massive army of weak goblins to overwhelm the Shining Ones.

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* '''Straight''': [[EvilOverlord The Dark Lord Lord]] sends an massive army of weak goblins to overwhelm the Shining Ones.



** The Dark Lord sends out an enormous army of magical constructs, each of them is falls apart with a slight touch, but The Dark Lord is capable of making thousands of them with a mere snap of his fingers.

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** The Dark Lord sends out an enormous army of magical constructs, each of them is falls apart with constructs. Even a slight touch, gust of wind can tear them apart, but The Dark Lord is capable of making hundreds upon thousands of them with a mere snap of his fingers.



** This still isn't enough to tip the scales, and the Shining Ones easily defeat all of them.

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** This still isn't enough to tip the scales, and the scales. The Shining Ones easily continue to defeat all of them.the goblins with ease, so the Dark Lord decides to have them fight in gigantic hordes instead.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The Dark Lord sends an entire nation’s population of civilians after the Shining Ones.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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The Dark Lord sends an entire nation’s population of civilians after the Shining Ones.Ones.
** The Dark Lord sends out an enormous army of magical constructs, each of them is falls apart with a slight touch, but The Dark Lord is capable of making thousands of them with a mere snap of his fingers.

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* '''Double Subverted''': This still isn't enough to tip the scales, and the Shining Ones easily defeat all of them.

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This still isn't enough to tip the scales, and the Shining Ones easily defeat all of them.

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** The Dark Lord will only ever send in his EliteArmy of orcs to handle the Shining Ones.



* '''Subverted''': Aware of his goblin army's deficincies, the Dark Lord uses his magic to make them stronger and more durable.

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* '''Subverted''': Aware of his goblin army's deficincies, deficiencies, the Dark Lord uses his magic to make them stronger and more durable.


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** His magical powers has limits, and doing this prevents him from doing arguably much more impactful things with his magic, so he later throws doing that out.
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** [[BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand Zurg]] Rush.

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** [[BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand Zurg]] Rush.
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** OneManArmy
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* '''Subverted''': [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Aware of his goblin army's deficincies]], the Dark Lord uses his magic to make them stronger and more durable.

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* '''Subverted''': [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Aware of his goblin army's deficincies]], deficincies, the Dark Lord uses his magic to make them stronger and more durable.
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** The Dark Lord’s goblins breed like rabbits, but their physical abilities are inherently limited.

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** The Dark Lord’s goblins [[ExplosiveBreeder breed like rabbits, rabbits]], but their physical abilities are inherently limited.

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