AceOfFools
2008-07-21, 05:18 PM
So I've been thinking about this whole Hobgoblin thing. 30,000 of their soldiers just up and left their homeland, seriously affecting its ability to defend itself. Did they just leave their homes undefended? Given the way humanoids feel about goblinoids (see Start of Darkness for details), that seems to be a bad plan.
I believe there are still hobgobs in that land, mostly because we haven't seen a single female hobgoblin (based on the difference between male and female goblin designs, i.e. hair). This says nothing about how the majority of humanoid settlements are not warriors because these are hobgoblins after all.
So what's the deal with this half of their population?
Have they been attacked? Will they be attacked? Will they rejoin the rest of the Supreme Commander's forces? Do they even exist?
I'm not sure about any of this.
SoD spoilers:We know Xykon's got not trouble using goblin women and children as soldiers, and even watching them die for his own amusement.
I was impressed early in the comic when Rich made sure to include more than cut and paste minions, especially in the splash pages. He continued this practice with the orcs in a subsequent to War and XPs, not to mention the mixed gendered Azure City units, so it's something he generally cares about. Yet, he kept the entire hobgoblin army copy and paste.
It could be that was a function of the various creatures position on the Law-Chaos axis.
Anyway, thoughts on the Hobgoblin Homefront?
I believe there are still hobgobs in that land, mostly because we haven't seen a single female hobgoblin (based on the difference between male and female goblin designs, i.e. hair). This says nothing about how the majority of humanoid settlements are not warriors because these are hobgoblins after all.
So what's the deal with this half of their population?
Have they been attacked? Will they be attacked? Will they rejoin the rest of the Supreme Commander's forces? Do they even exist?
I'm not sure about any of this.
SoD spoilers:We know Xykon's got not trouble using goblin women and children as soldiers, and even watching them die for his own amusement.
I was impressed early in the comic when Rich made sure to include more than cut and paste minions, especially in the splash pages. He continued this practice with the orcs in a subsequent to War and XPs, not to mention the mixed gendered Azure City units, so it's something he generally cares about. Yet, he kept the entire hobgoblin army copy and paste.
It could be that was a function of the various creatures position on the Law-Chaos axis.
Anyway, thoughts on the Hobgoblin Homefront?