With an AC of 17, 58 hit points if you take the base NPC stat and three, count 'em three attacks at +5 to hit, these guys can melt out a lot of damage and are difficult to hurt. and I was going by the CR 3 and well, let's just say Veterans are a lot tougher than what the CR dictates. Now my party are 4th level, with 4 player characters. According to the blurb in SKT there are 18 Veterans and a Nobel (the Baroness Cromm) holding the Duchess prisoner. So I am running the Storm King's Thunder for my group right now and they are seeking to rescue the Duchess of Daggerford at Cromm's Hold in Lizard Marsh. Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse