OOC:
The battlefield is comprised of several zones: Yellow, Green, Blue, and Red. It takes your movement to get from one zone to the next, and you will likely take some opportunity attacks if you leave a zone with baddies in it. It is possible to move 2 zones by taking the Dash action, though you might take opportunity attacks from both zones that you leave. Each zone spans roughly 30 feet, and the total distance from Yellow to Red is about 120 feet, so sniping across the battlefield to other zones is fair game.
Yellow is where the hero army begins. Intact buildings provide some cover here.
Green is the open ground coming up to the Blue. There is no cover, but movement is fairly easy. Anyone with a bonus to movement can move straight from the Yellow into the Blue, though they are likely to take some heat doing so. There are
enemy barbarians and
barbed devils here making life difficult. The barbarians are standing front rank, with the barbed devils standing behind them a ways in 2 groups.
Blue is the rubble around the Temple from fallen tower blocks smashing ground and buildings. This area is all difficult terrain – meaning you need twice as much movement to get through it as usual. The
two hellfire golems are here, though spread out from each other. There are also
two erinyes flying about with longbows.
Red is the Temple of Tempus itself and its very close proximity. There is quite a bit of cover here from what’s left of the Temple’s walls. This is where
Joril and his
five frost giants are taking cover and launching boulders from. They have cover, so unless you have a way around that their AC is 2 higher than usual against ranged attacks. Also,
Meradoch the pit fiend has taken to the air here. After entering this zone, you can use your movement to get through the door and down below.
This is all just to sort of set the scene. Let me know what ideas you have to engage with the enemy and we can have a conversation. For example, if anyone wants to try to get around and attack from another direction, they’ll need to be fast or stealthy, or possibly both.
