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HORDES
OF THE THINGS
An
overview of my favourite HOTT army
by
Jeff Herbert
It
was Bruce who first introduced me to Hordes of the Things or HOTT as it is
widely known. HOTT is the DBA/DBM
fantasy based game, which is both fun and simple to play.
Magic is not overly complicated and is taken with a pinch of powdered
bat’s wing but is more in line with the magic of Tolkien’s Gandalph and
Saruman.
I
started off with dwarfs, (read Tolkien to find out why they should not be
called dwarves), elves and orcs but wanted to find a ‘signature’ army of
my own. All HOTT players
need a signature army, see the Stronghold site for proof of this.
My current favourite is the People Eating Pasta and their Leaning
Tower of Pizza. Just as I
started into HOTT the brilliant little Games Workshop models for Man O War
became available and so using the Flying Dragons with 15mm Midianite camel
riders I made the Thought Dragons, a creation by Terry Pratchett and his
Discworld. The Thought Dragons
originate from a part of the Discworld where magic is in a severe state of
flux. The Thought Dragon
Stronghold is the Wyrmberg, a mountain inverted by magic where the dragon
flyers reside. Thought Dragons
do not actually exist but are the magical creation of their riders and
cannot venture far from the Wyrmberg and the strong magical field.
For more I recommend reading the Discworld novels.
My
army has two variants:-
| 1 x Aerial Hero
General |
Liessa on Thought
Dragon |
at 6 points |
| 1 x Aerial Hero |
Hrun on Thought
Dragon |
at 6 points |
| 6 x Flyers |
Riders on Thought
Dragons |
at 12 points |
or
| 1 x Flyer General |
Liessa on Thought
Dragon |
at 2 points |
| 5 x Flyers |
Lieissa’
retainers |
at 10 points |
| 1 x Hero |
Hrun on Horseback |
at 4 points |
| 1 x Cleric |
Rincewind |
at 3 points |
| 1 x Behemoth |
The Luggage |
at 4 points |
| 1 x Lurker |
The Tourist |
at 1 point |
The
second army is based on the struggle for power between Liessa and her
brothers on the death of their father Griecha.
She ‘recruits’ the Hero Hrun and gains power.
The post army sees her ruling with Hrun having gained Hero status
herself. Rincewind, the Luggage
and the Tourist all make appearances and I have welded them into the second
army.
The
first picture shows the Thought Dragons with the Wyrmberg just showing in
the background.
This
picture shows the wyrmberg, army and variants, Two Flower with his own
imagined dragon, Ninereeds, stands out in the line up.
Beside Two flower the Luggage, Rincewind and Hrun on horseback can be
seen. The small dragons flying
out of the wyrmberg are the 2mm Irregular Miniatures Nazgul figures.
In
the last picture, Liessa with the Standard flies beside Hrun.
This
army will be off to fight in the Berkeley HOTT 2003 competition in August
and at the moment I intend to
use the first variant.
Berkeley
(home of the Castle and the death of Edward II by red
hot poker) will not be the venue this year as it has shifted to nearby
Slimbridge (home of the Wildfowl Trust found by Sir Peter Scott).
I hope to come back with more pictures with which to remember the
trip, which seems from reading the write-ups to be as much about making
alcohol disappear as about war gaming.
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