Hawk's Scouts

Old Toby Wintergarten sat near the fire with a fresh pint of the Misty Inn’s best ale.

Well, The Scouts story is equally the story of the Blue Forest Goblins. Folk around the Little Country refer to them as The B.F.G. or the Notorious G.o.B -- Goblins of the Blue. They showed up in The Blue -- the forest, that is -- about five years ago. The story goes that they moved on from the southern mountains when they were caught between the dwarfs and the Reiklanders.

For a couple of years they found plunder here in the Little Country -- raiding small settlements, isolated farms. Can’t imaging there’s much wealth to be gained, but certainly enough for bandits to live off. The matter was ignored by the Council in Marienburg, as our concerns usually are. Unless it’s disrupting trade, they don’t care. And this wasn’t really big enough to matter to them.

But it mattered to folk around here. They were losing their livelihood, even their families. Militias did their best to try to fend off the bandits, but they were so good and sneaking in and out of a place that the militias had barely mustered by the time the gobbos had snuck back off into the hills & forest.

About three years ago, one hobbit -- Hawk he goes by now. I think he was called Johannis back when he had farm and family. Hawk went around to all the villages & farms and gathered up those like him. Them that had lost everything. Them that wanted revenge. They vowed to leave everything behind. Most of them were desperate and had nothing anyway. They would take to the woodland, he said, and hunt the notorious goblins on their own terms.

And they did. They left and took only what they thought they could carry. Then they left half of that behind. The goblin raids slowed down, and disappeared in some parts. Moved on to other parts. The stories started getting passed around. Hawk’s Scouts had the goblins on the run.

But the goblins still had to eat to survive. So the raids moved from one place to another, and maybe they weren’t so common as they were before the Scouts took to the woods. But the Scouts had to eat to survive too. At first they would show up and ask for assistance. By the second year the polite requests turned first to demands, and then just to taking. “Requisitioning,” they called it. “Keep the G.o.B. off your farm” they said. And folks were sure grateful not to have goblins looting and burning so much. But some folk say the Scouts are almost as bad. I say at least they aren’t burnin’ & kllin’. Well, mostly not burnin’ & killin’. There was that one time in Crosswater, and that other time on the farm near Grunvald.

The way I hears it -- and this is just the stories that come in an’ outa here -- both the G.o.B. and the Scouts are hurting. Over three years hunting each other in the Blue Forest has taken its toll on both sides. Both have lost men… er… hobbits and goblins, or what have you. Both have lived hard in the woods and hills. But you can imagine how it is. The ones thats left, they’re the hard ones. They’ll survive through just about anything, and do whatever it takes.

Every once in awhile a restless young ‘un up & leaves to take up with the Scouts. Some come back after just a few days. Some’r never heard from again. Whether they joined up with Hawk & his Scouts or whether they just died in the wilderness, no one’s to sure.

So that’s what the Scouts are these days -- no more can I tell ya’.

 

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Your Favorite Wargame Stats

WFB3

5 - 20 HALFLING SCOUTS
	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Int	Cl	WP
Halfling	3	2	4	2	2	1	5	1	6	7	6	8
LEVEL 10 HERO	3	4	5	3	3	2	6	3	7+1	7	6	8
Image			MODELS PER UNIT: 5 - 20
			POINTS PER MODEL: 9 1/2
			WEAPONS: BOW & HAND WEAPON
			ARMOUR: NONE
			OPTIONS UNIT MAY HAVE: UNIT LEADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Scouts.

KoW2

Halfling Scouts					Infantry
Unit Size	Sp	Me	Ra	De	Att	Ne	Pts
Troop (10)	4	5+	5+	3+	8	9/11	85
Special
Bows, Nimble, Pathfinder, Stealthy