This page was maintained by Alan Saunders for longer than anyone can care to remember. Unfortunately its been taken offline when BT Internet merged their hosting service with yahoo. This was a devastating blow to the HoTT gaming community. However, there is a snapshot of the site here : http://web.archive.org/web/20100410020120/http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.catherine/wargames/strong.htm […]
The Battle of the Philippine Sea has been on my wish-list of projects for a few years now. Its one of the largest sea battles in history, (In the top three with Jutland and Leyte Gulf, but it’s exact position depends on your method of measurement). Some belated Christmas money […]
The night before salute was the debut of my 28mm “Hordes of the Things” game .. although we only got 4 of the intended 6 armies on the table, a close fought game ensued. Armies were 36 points per side (keeping the standard D6 pips). Mat and Tom took the ‘Forces of Light’ (Men and Elves), and Alex and James commanded the ‘Forces of Darkness’ (Mostly Greenskins and Chaos Worshippers). Although The Forces of light commanded the early game, with withering ranged fire from Bow and Cannon and a superbly effective cavalry charge by Mat, the Forces of Darkness slowly turned the tide with a countercharge of Ogres and Vicious Ariel attacks by Dragons. Allied Spellcasters held the line briefly, but were brutally cut off and killed by aerial attack. End Result : 2 Light-Side Commands Demoralised to only one Dark side Command demoralized. Victory to the night, but rematch pending.
Photos from the day trip to Belgium, 18th march 2011 .. Mostly WW1 reference material for our trench sections but a few nice shots from various sites and museums.
Ok, so we have been playing the last few games of WW1 and WH40K on some less than ideal playing surfaces. The first set of battle boards i had made were warped and were suffering from moving house badly. Tom had jumped to the rescue with a games workshop grass […]