Knights are best in the open where they can roll over foot units. 2APs gets you a fast moving unit with +3 vs foot, +4 vs mounted and a handful of quick-kills against various foot units in the open. They don’t do very well at all in bad going. They […]
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Hordes of the Things – Part 11 – Beast
Hordes of the Things – Part 08 – Artillery
Hordes of the Things – Part 07 – Bow
Hordes of the Things – Part 06 – Spear
Hordes of the Things – Part 05 – Warband
In the first edition of Hordes of the Things, Warband was definitely the worst troop choice going. At twice the points cost of Horde it was only slightly more combat effective. Thankfully in 2nd Edition they were buffed slightly, and the semi-official-unofficial errata to the HoTT rulebook brings them up […]
Hordes of the Things – Part 04 – Blade
Carrier Taskforce – Part 3 – Wunderdunk
Ogre “createRenderWindow” Segmentation fault
Hordes of the Things – Part 20 – Finished: The Forces of Darkness
Hordes of the Things – Part 19 – Finished: The Forces of Light
Hordes of the Things – Part 18 – Dragon
Hordes of the Things – Part 17 – Horde .. the Endless bloody Horde
Hordes of the Things – Part 16 – Paladin / Cleric
Full Thrust – Part3 – The Opening Salvo
Carrier Taskforce – Part 2 – Painting
Games Weekend JUL 2009 – Anglo-Zulu War
This was the first run through of Toms 15mm Anglo-Zulu game, using the “Battles for Empire” rules set. Pics taken in either June or july 2009.
Full Thrust – Part6 – Arms Race
Full Thrust – Part1 – Herding cats in space
WW1 in 28mm
While I was sorting out the photos from the last games weekend, I stumbled over these. Some nice shots of Toms 28mm WW1 collection not specific to any game. These make a good showcase of Toms figures, as well as being good reference for anyone looking to buy figures for this period
The Stronghold – Hordes of the Things Resource
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 […]
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1:3000
First (big) Game of 28mm ‘Hordes of the Things’ – 15th Apr 2011
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.
WW1 Reference – Ypers, Hill62, Passendale – March 2011
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.
Building a wargames table
New features 13/02/2011
Quote of the Day – 11/02/2011
New website graphics, What do you think?
The Bucket Model
Quote of the Day – 03/08/2010
Misc Photos
Just a playing around with the new camera. Sony A35 with the standard kit lens