A couple of HotT games

 With one thing and another (inclement weather included) just one night of games this week: a couple of HoT (Hordes of the Things) games with newest HotT acolyte Murray.  Murray is hard at work trawling through hos own 50 year figure stash planning and creating his own HotT armies. In the meantime, we trotted out four of my own (all 20mm of course) in two standard 24point games.

The first game saw Murray command my Weird WW1 British army against my spider hordes. The spider army consisted of:

1 x hero general
1 x behemoth
1 x spider airboat
13 x hordes

The British:

1 x shooter general

1 x behemoth

1 x airboat

2 x undead 1914 BEF

1 x artillery

4 x blade

1 x shooter

Behemoth vs Hero general .. Murray attacked with the behemoth, unsupported... 

Behemoth repulsed

and .. behemoth swamped by hordes

airboat vs airboat.. luck of the dice, and this time I rolled higher..

The second game I commanded the semi historical Chinese against the mythological Romans.

The Chinese included two dragons .. not a game winner, simply characterful

Chinese chariots (knights) and one of the spear bases

Roman knights

The Chinese stronghold.. Buried Army, of course!!

The Roman Stronghold. We tend these days to have both sides take a stronghold, simply for the aesthetics. It doesn't seem to have changed the game dynamic nor outcomes

The two dragons appeared turn 2. Remember that they neither give noir receive flank support. I flew them together, but they are still fundamentally 'loners'

The dragons flew in to attack a unit of Roman beasts that were heading for the Chinese stronghold

They drove it back, then killed it

One of the dragons then overflew the Roman line in one turn,. then turned and supported the Chinese attack from the rear

The knights/chariots menace the Romans

The two chariot bases attacking the Roman line

The Chinese victory came when they destroyed the Roman Shooter general... a couple of cool games. I should add that the dragons didn't play an overly large part in the Chinese victory. They are fickle beasts!!!