HoTT- Rohan vs Orcs

Finn and I had a couple of games of HotT last night, the result was one win a piece. It had been quite a while since we'd played but with the weather being drizzly the last couple of days he was keen.

After playing Impetus for so long I was rather underwhelmed by the rules and so I think next time we will use the fantasy version of Impetus which should make for a much more dynamic and interesting game.

Game 1

Don't charge shooters in bad going with trolls (behemoths)

Game 2

This time the trolls do much better.

 

 Win to the Orcs.

HoTT: Urak Hai

The initial force Urak Hai force is now re-based:

• 1x Orc Hero General
• 2x trolls (behemoths)
• 2x warg riders (riders)
• 3x Urak Hai Scouts (warband)
• 1x Urak Hai crossbows (shooters)

Eventually I'll add another warband and a second unit of crossbows and get rid of the hero.





I also based up 2x bases of Rohan and 3x Rangers so can field a more varied Rohanesque force.

The initial Rohan force will be:

• 1x Hero General
• 4x riders
• 2x shooters
• 4x Blades

Finn is keen to use the Urak Hai/Isengard army so hopefully we'll get a chance in the next few days

Craig

Work in Progress for HoTT

Finn is fired up about Boris the Beastman and is talking about gettng his own minis and learning to paint. I've plenty of crappy GW figures I picked up when I was starting to collect WoTR forces late last year which might be donated to his cause. However, he has has inspired me to do some work on the HoTT War of the Rings armies- that and I'm about painted out in historics at present and need to do something a bit different.

I've a lot of minis to rebase. I haven't really done anything with Rohan infantry yet as I figured that I can use my Vikings as generic human infantry to boost numbers. But last night I started to work on rebasing a few bits and pieces- a couple of stands of Warg Riders, 2x trolls (Finn's favourites) as well as 3 x bases of Rangers. I love the ranger models, the only thing that annoys me is that they are giants compared to the Rohan figures. I am also going to rebase the Orc scouts (my favourites in the orc range) as I've decided that all infantry for HoTT are going to be on 8cm x 6cm bases and cav/monsters on 8cm x 7cm ones. I'ma lso going to stick with 6 figs per base for the HoTT/fantasy forces.

One thing that I have been considering is doing like Mark Davies and using DBA rather than HoTT! The main areas that would be improved would be in that the rangers could count as auxillia as could my wood elves (when I ger round to painting them). It seems strange to me that wood elf spears are at a disadvantage fighting in their natural terrain (woods) and so auxilia might be more appropriate for them than warband as I'd originally considered. Monsters such as trolls would be considered to be elephants. Not sue what to do about beasts, maybe light horse.

Tonight's mission is to finish off the bases while most of the weekend will be taken up with DBA and TAGCON.





Craig

HoTT Battle Report

Boris the Beastman vs Rohan

Finn and I had a game of HoTT this morning, the seemingly invincible army of Boris the Beastmen vs the rag tag humans of Rohan (and viking allies). Could Boris' incursions into the human lands be curtailed?

Boris- hero general
2x behmoths
4x warband
1x beasts
1x flyer

Human General
2x knights
4x blades
2x shooters

Finn set up terrain and I defended.


The first turn as the two armies advance.


Inconclusive skirmish between the knights the flyer.


Here they come. Steady...


The beasts are recoiled by archery.


But the warband start carving up the shooters and blades (2-0) This is not looking good!


The other flank starts to crumble too as the blades are cut down by a behemoth...


Flank? What flank?


The human general held off the Ogre Warbands but the rest of his army crumbled. 5-0 to Boris and his behemoths!


Bring out ya dead! The human casualties.

Syrians + Riders of Rohan

I painted up the first two units for the First Crusades era Syrians last night. These are two units of Gaziz (Perry miniatures). I wasn't sure what colour to do the flesh and experimented with GW Dwarf Flesh- which looked too bright/pink even with a wash- and Vallejo Tan. After trying a couple of each I settled on the latter but with a very light drybrush of dwarf flesh added to highlight.

I'm still not 100% sure on the bases yet, I think they need something else to pop a bit more. I hunted through my scenry supplies and found some Woodlands Scenics fine ground earth and added that as a bit of additional texture. I might add some light green course turf yet or even some cat litter for contrast, we'll see. Let me know what you think.

Also I am continuing to try and get better quality pictures. At present I'm not sure if the poor quality is me, the camera or both! But for these shots I added another light source to try to get better light.











The shields still probably need work but I hate shields (which means I can't paint designs on them to save myself!), I might have to look into some more LBM studio transfers for these.

Riders of ROHAN- HoTT
As well as painting up these guys, I based up some Rohan for HoTT battles vs Finn. He's watching the Lord of the Rings again and is getting keen for a game.

I will use the Gripping Beast Vikings as additional infantry for this army.
1x Hero General
2x Knights
4x Blades
2x Shooters
2x Beasts (wardogs)

28mm HoTT: Beastmen vs the Gauls

A rainy day so had a couple of Games of HoTT with Finn after he'd finished school. He took the beastmen army, I ran with the Gauls.

Beastmen

• Boris the beastman (hero)
• 2x Behemoths (Minotuars)
  
• 4x Ogre warband
• 2x beasts (Wolves)

Gauls

• 2x Heroes
• 6x Warband
• 2x beasts (warhounds)

The two armies advance

Pretty similar set ups- beasts on the flanks, heroes/behemoths and warband together.

The heroes and behemoths line up...


Game over: The two lines meet, the only decisive result was the behemoth hero losing combat vs the Celtic hero and so being cut down in his prime. Seeing their leader slain the army decided to pack up and go home!


Game 2:
Finn swapping a beast for a flyer element and converting Boris to a Behemoth (so he can't get himself killed by Heroes so easily!).

This time the Celts advanced into beastman territory.


The Celts ran out of steam (and pips) so waited to see the Beastmen's response-a general advance with the flyer scooting out to a flank.


At moments like these the only thing to do is...CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it all went horribly wrong! The beasts outflanked his beasts but lost the combat, then the behemoth forced back my general, leaving my warband exposed to two angry behemoths that promptly romped through the warband- quick kills leave 4 dead warband!

The Celtic casualties.



Game, set and match to the beastmen. The Celts retreat to lick their wounds.

We might need to set up a final later in the week!

Craig

Beasts of War- first outing

The beasts of war were victorious in their first outing vs an Anglo-Danish host led by 2 heroes (4x spear, 2x blade, 2 beasts and 2 heroes).

Alas I forgot to take a camera, the decisive moment came when a flyer combined with Boris the behemoth (hero) to take down the human general. Having 1/2 of the human army being able to be quick killed by the Ogre warband didn't help. But I must say that I do like the way Boris and his Behemoths play- and I was on the reciving end!

HoTT, Beasts of War Army

I am meant to be having a doubles game of HoTT tomorrow night (or is that very HoTT?) in 28mm at TAG but only had one army of Orcs done so had a rummage round to see what I could find to make a new army.

I bought the GW minotaurs about 10 years ago and the ogres were from a mate and destined for D&D games 4 or 5 years back but decided they'd make for a great HoTT force. My theme was going to be "Behemoths" and have an army of behemoths but checking the rules you can only take 12 pts of 4pt units in a 24 pt army so the Ogres are relegated to Warband. However, if they become allies of my planned Misty Mountain Goblin horde they will be reinstated to their rightful behemoth status. Not sure what brand the Ogres are but am guessing that they are probably old GW.

All I've done is rebased the miniatures. One day I'll get round to repainting the ogres but they'll do for now.

"Boris the Behemoth" General (or possibly a hero)


2x Behemoths- and Boris stealing the limelight again


4x Ogre Warbands & 2x Fliers


I've a few old GW harpies lying around that may become the flying component instead of the bats- if I remember correctly the bats were ear marked for a HoTT goblin force I was planning years ago.

The Beasts of War assembled