# Warrior Veteran

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> [!infobox]
> ![warrior veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/warrior-veteran.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 3 (700 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 17
> **Hit Points:** 65 (10d8+20)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A seasoned soldier: shoots while foes close, then cleaves twice a turn and parries melee hits.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 65 (10d8+20) | 30 ft | 3 | 700 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 (+3) | 13 (+1) | 14 (+2) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) |

- **Skills:** Athletics +5, Perception +2
- **Languages:** Common, one other language

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes two Greatsword attacks or two Heavy Crossbow attacks.
- **Greatsword.** Cleaves with a greatsword.
- **Heavy Crossbow.** Fires a heavy crossbow bolt.

### Reactions

- **Parry.** Trigger: the warrior is hit by a melee attack roll while it holds a weapon. Response: the warrior gains a +2 bonus to its AC against that one attack, which can make the attack miss.

## Where you meet it

- [The Svalich Woods](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-svalich-woods.md): *Grigor spits, nocks, and shouts a name. Arrows answer from three sides.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Izek vaults off the dais with his strange arm already smoking. The Baron's watch closes ranks behind him.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *Izek's arm bursts into flame to the elbow. Most of the watch backs away from the priest; the ones who don't…*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [The Doll Collector](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-doll-collector.md) · *Izek steps down off the dais, flexing the arm that isn't his. A few of the watch step down with him.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *Two of Dobre's lads come round the corner at a run, and two more out of the guardhouse, and none of them are…*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…*
- [The Burgomaster's Mansion](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-burgomasters-mansion.md): [The Doll Collector](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-doll-collector.md) · *Izek comes off the cot in one movement, and the arm that isn't his starts to glow like a coal someone has…*
- [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…*
- [The Reed Isle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-reed-isle.md): [The Baron's Island](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-barons-island.md) · *The Baron's boatmen come up the shingle with clubs and a lantern, looking for the smoke, and the reeds behind…*