Andy unveiled his latest HotT army.. Weird World War 1... a mix of weirdness that is a testimony to imagination. Albatross flyers - fair enough. But .. ghost hordes (the countless dead of WW1 returning again, and again, and again), and zombie blades and shooters: German infantry in gas masks.
And they launched straight into a spider horde. Evil vs evil .. whoaaa. This was a standard 24 point battle.
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| Spider Hordes flanking a spider behemoth (general) and two heroes) |
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| German ghost hordes advance ahead of blades and hooters |
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| Albatross flyers |
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| And a behemoth flanked the main German line |
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| The forces close |
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| Flyers swoop in behind the spider line (or should that be swarm?) |
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| Sadly Andy forgot that heroes can attack flyers, and that's what the two spider heroes di |
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| One flyer down |
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| Two flyers down, and the hordes clash |
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| The German ghost hordes get the better of the spider hordes |
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| Having disposed of the German flyers, the heroes decide to swing around towards the German flank |
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| Meanwhile the German behemoth smacks into the hordes on the other flank |
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| One horde bites the dust |
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| The spider hordes on the other flank are retreating |
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| German zombie shooters |
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| It's ugly ... |
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| And on the other flank - still ugly |
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| The spider hordes swarm over the behemoth |
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| While the spider heroes bide their time |
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| Spider horde casualties are 'reborn'.. and swarm forward again |
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| The behemoth is overwhelmed |
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| The spider hordes re-assert themselves on the spider left |
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| The spider heroes hit the German zombie shooters |
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| German casualties galore |
But it's all over for the Germans - casualties are too great, and victory goes to the spider hordes.
We then played a second game, again 24 points .. this time I took another unholy piece of evil.. the Undead. Being slightly confused, I took Spiderman as a God with the Undead... oh well ... still a legal army, just lost the flavour a little,
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| Spiderman arrived and got into combat with the German behemoth |
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| This time Andy took the DVa as an aerial hero - he smacked into the undead behemoth |
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| The Undead magician (necromancer if you prefer) was desperately trying to cast spells from behind |
The battery on my phone died before the battle finished. The germans managed a great victory against the Undead... Spiderman the God disappeared, and the aerial hero carved through the Undead line... nasty stuff.
But two great games with a great new army. I have to say that a British equivalent is on the painting table as I type.
