...Are Cool!

Good evening,

Here is the second report of Bruce and my HOTT evening a few days back. Hang on, that doesn't sound right...

Anyway, Bruce again chose to take the Skellies, so I thought to try again with the EIRs, this time swapping out Mars for a Behemoth, and the Rider for an Early Imperial Catafract (they started to develop their own about the time of the Dacian War).


Anyway, Bruce selected his own army this time, we rolled, he was the defender so he set 'em up...


...I did likewise...


...and away we went. Again.

Bruce quickly moved out his Aerial Hero. Again. But this time supported by a Flyer.



And then started to work around my left flank. To counter which, I, well, could do little.


Still, I did what I could. I moved over a Blade...



...who was lucky to survive, and then my mounted assets.



However, the more observant of you will have noticed the Skellie riders coming across from the centre in one of the previous picies. And so, it hit the flank of my Knight.



Rats! I don't think that element has done anything useful anytime I've used it!

So I pull back to defend the hill...


...while my other legion/cohort/three Blades + my Hero finally come through the forest to face the Hordes on the hill.


I immediately start moving my Hero to the West.

And just like that, Bruce flies that beastly beastie straight back, and flies the flyers over behind the poor blade facing off against the Beasts, potentially unleashing the explosive buttocks of death.


Which he did.


Still, one good turn deserves another!


Or so I hoped.


Instead, Bruce just flew the flyers away over the Legionaries out to the East.

(I think that's right, right?)

But at least he left behind his riders for me to mob...


...or so I thought!


Oh, come on!

Then Bruce unleashes those dratted aerial elements again.



Drats!



Double drats!

And that was the game.

That Aerial Hero, well...Aerial Heroes Are Cool!

Nick

Aerial Heroes...

Good morning,

Last night Bruce, whose daughter I taught last year, and who has taught my own children at high school came round for his first bona fide miniatures wargame. He was keen on something mythological, so I brought out HOTT. Specifically my Early Imperial Romans vs. my Skellies.



I set up before he arrived thinking that he'd take the Romans. He arrived and immediately chose the Skellies, repleat with my latest addition/alteration to this army, an Aerial Hero (the Bone Dragon with a rider. In fact, the riders just sitting on it, so I can remove it should I want a dragon. But after tonight...)



And away we went.


Mars hisself arrived on the scene, did some pushing and shoving...



...and then beggered off without killing a thing!


Blimmin false gods!

(I really do need a more arable/dry/summer-grass-looking battle mat. Still, this was dirt cheap, and covers my 9 foot by 5 foot table tennis table, so...)

Anyway, Bruce picked things up very quickly, and soon sent that dratted Ariel Hero behind my front line.



It soon started to wreak havoc!



In the meantime I tried to advance in the centre...


...and pulling out my own hero from Bruces. Heroes are quick killed by heroes (and both are destroyed on a draw) so I figured it could do better work where it'd have better odds!


Note in the background my Rider General that I brought up behind his Knight chariot in an effort to unleash the explosive buttocks of death! (Denying him room to recoil, should such a result, well, result.)

Bruce promptly did the same to my end Blade element.


In either case, it didn't work!


So I charge my General into the his Knight, supported by Legionaries. Praetorians, in point of fact.



Huzzah!

Concurrently, my centre Blades had dispatched those two pesky centre-of-the-field-hogging Hordes, so Bruce sends that nasty Aerial Hero up behind one of these said Blades, forcing it to turn to face without the support of it's mate.



No worries!

Next bound I redress my lines and send forth my general to threaten his Magician General.


My subsequent bound, after another unsuccessful attempt at my Legionaries, I close the door, so to speak on mister threatening there.


All for a Stand result (a tie). Still, at least I got into contact with his General, and managed to push him back.


Things were getting down to the wire. I had lost 10 AP, Bruce something like 8 (mostly Hordes). He couldn't afford to loose that Aerial Hero, I couldn't afford to loose, well, anything else, so he sends in a Horde to force the Blade off the flank of the big beastie, closes the door on the other Blade...


...and finally dispatches the Legionaries facing his Hero.


...and that was the end of that!

Well played Bruce, well played.

Those Aerial Heroes are, I think, worth the points...

Nick

HOTT Carnage 2012, Battle 3

Good afternoon,

Ok, so far, one loss, one win. And on to the next battle...

This time I went up against Stan's Shogun 20mm Plastic Heroic Samurai, replete with...

• 1 Blade General
• 3, count 'em 3 Heroes
• 1 Shooter
• 8 Hordes

...I think...

I chose to oppose them with my Early Imperial Roman army.

• 1 Hero General
• 1 Hero
• 1 God
• 1 Knight
• 5 Blades

I set up protecting my flanks with the woods, with the aim of sitting my Blades on top of the hill and letting Stan come to me. Well, that was the theory, anyway.

So I advance as planned. Unfortunately, the Early Catafracts (c. 100 A.D ish) had to advance through the rough...


Stan sends two Heroes to my right flank, so I move over my Hero General to protect the line.


Unfortunately not enough over to protect my Catafracts. Caught, they were...


...with pretty predictable results.


So in I go with my Hero General. With the sudden realisation that Heroes quick kill Heroes. Gulp.


Oh crap!


Stan assures me that that's a six on his Japanese die.

And that was the end of that!

Well played Stan, well played.

Nick