darth_ender said:
An onslaught of bad guys will always take you on one at a time so you have time to kill them individually and quickly rather than taking advantage of their numerical superiority.
This is usually the case, the bad guys are quite courteous in that regard. If you are mobbed by numerous bad guys however, you will:
a). Have the strength to throw them all off you at once.
b). Crawl out of the huddle and escape unnoticed.