u/Zapik

tried to use fleshshade to glaze them but it looks more like they got lightly covered in poop

We played a bit of the very beginning of the Delian Tomb with my group and one thing I ran into, as the director, was I didn't know how to effectively use the goblins with the "Spear Charge" attack.

The encounter book mentions I should use "hit and run tactics." But since Disengage is a move action, I couldn't run very far without getting killed by the heroes with an opportunity attack.

The Charge description reads "they move up to their speed in a straight line," I assume "up to" means it doesn't have to be their full speed, but can it be 0? Or do they have to move at least 1 square?

Then it reads "then make a melee free strike (see Free Strikes below) against a target when they end their move." It would make sense in fiction if the target of said attack had to be on the same "straight line" for the attack to use the momentum of the "charge." But since the description of the action doesn't specify, does the target just have to be in range when I finish the movement portion of the Charge?

I tried to explain what I mean visually in the images.