To Hott Or Not To Hott (Now with Pictures of HoTT elements)

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To Hott Or Not To Hott (Now with Pictures of HoTT elements)
Tweet Topic Started: Jul 27 2011, 11:54 AM (4,192 Views)
v_lazy_dragon	Sep 7 2011, 10:33 AM Post #41
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Found some army lists: Scots-Irish 55BC to 846AD 3x Knights (light chariots) 1x Knight (Chariot) or Warband or Shooter (General) 5x Warband 3x Shooter Scots 846AD to 1124AD 1x horsemen (General) 1x Horsemen or Knights (Chariot?) 2x Warband (Hearth guard type proffesional warriors) 4x Spears (Regular warriors) 2x Warband (skirmishers and savage warriors) 2x Shooters (skirmishers and bowmen) Gallic 400BC - 50BC 2x Knights (light chariots) or horsemen 2x Horsemen 6x Warband 2x Shooter Ancient British 50BC to 75AD 3x Knight (Light Chariot) or Blade or Shooters (skirmishers) - One is general 2x Horsemen 5x Warband (regualr warriors) 1x Warband (nekkid fanatics) 1x Shooter (skirmishers) Caledonian or Pictish 75AD to 845AD 2x Knights (light Chariot) or Horsemen - inc General 2x Horsemen 6x Warband (Warriors and skirmishers) 2x Shooters (Skirmishers and archers) Romano-British 407AD to 945AD 3x Horsemen 1x Knights or horsemen (general) 2x Spear or warband (Commitatus hearth guard) 4x Spear (Warriros) 2x Shooters Welsh 580+ AD 1xHorsemen 5x Spear or Shooter (Warriors or bowmen) 3x Spear or warband (Heavier warriors) 2x Shooters (Skirmishers and Archers) 1x Blades or Shooters (Heavy infantry or more bowmen) - Probably General



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 7 2011, 10:35 AM Post #42
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Looks like I need to do the rest of my S-I up as warbands then... Luckily they aren't glued to the bases yet! I'll just use the two bases I've done so far as Spear bases (ala the later list) or just say that the 'proffessional warriors' count as blades....



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 7 2011, 10:57 AM Post #43
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Other Lists which I might use: Early Frankish, Burgundian or Alamannic 250Ad - 639AD 1x Horsemen or Blade (general) 10x Warband 1x shooter (skirmisher) Patrician Roman 435-493 AD (If I want to do conntinental 'civillised'(!) types. Probably using pretty much the same figures as the Romano-british if I'm honest...) 1x Horsemen (General) 1x horsemen (horse archer types) 2x Blade (Armoured proffesional warriors) 2x Spear (unarmoured spearmen) 2x Knight (Sarmatian style Mercenary heavy cavalry) 4x Warband (sword armed unarmourd infantry Hunnic 374-466 AD 1x Horsemen or Knights (Armoured Nobles) 6x Horsemen (Horse archers) Either [5x Horsemen] (more horse archers) OR [1x Warband + 2x Knights (Sarmatian style heavy cavalry + 2x shooter or warband (skirmishers)] (as indentured Germanic or other tribes Slav 476-1218AD 1x Horsemen or Spear (General) 8x spear (tribal warriors) 3x Shooters (archers) Western Late Roman 307 - 425AD (Another option for civillised conntinental types) 1x Knight or horsemen (mid to heavy cavalry, general) 2x Horsemen (Mid cavalry) 1x horsemen (mounted archers) 4x Blades (Armoured swordsmen/legionaires) 3x Spears(Unarmoured spearmen) 1x Artillery (bolt thower or stone thrower) or shooters (Archers) Early Gothic army 200-493 AD 2x Knight (Heavy cavalry, inc General) 1x Knight or Horsemen or Warband (Heavy cavalry, or light horse with javellins or infantry) 3x Warband (foot warriors) 3x Warband (Warriors and skirmishers) 3x Shooters (skirmishers) Later Visigothic 419-711AD 1x Knights (inc Gen) 4x Horsemen 2x Shooters (skirmishers 5x Spear OR Warband Or [3xWarband + 1x Spear +1x Shooter] Ostrogothic 493-561 AD 6x Knights (inc general 4x Shooters (Skirmishers) 2x Shooters (skirmishers) or Spear Edited by v_lazy_dragon, Sep 7 2011, 11:38 AM.



mattblackgod	Sep 7 2011, 01:38 PM Post #44
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	Looks like you have every angle covered!



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 7 2011, 02:07 PM Post #45
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	And Jute, Frisian, Ostro/Visigoth, squint eyed steppe nomad, hairy barbarian, poncy toga fancier and axe sharpener which ever trampled across europe bewteen about 400 and 800 AD.... Ok, it was a bad pun.... I doubt I'll even build a quarter of the army lists I put up... but I can fantasise!



majormike	Sep 9 2011, 11:45 AM Post #46
Wastelander Posts: 136 Group: Members Member #43 Joined: Aug 31, 2008	As usual I am coming late to the party. I love HOTT its a good game, simple with a lot of nuances and great fun. Yes the rules are all over the place and sometimes strangely worded but once you get over that you are good to go. We used to double up the points and play larger armies but that was in 15mm. At the moment we are running a club ancients campaign using HOTT so we can have heroes etc. One word of warning the planning and making elements is highly addictive.



Mr. Clean	Sep 10 2011, 07:12 PM Post #47
Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^) Posts: 3,577 Group: Members Member #134 Joined: Jan 7, 2010	Great minis and paint jobs Xander! Brian



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 11 2011, 03:41 PM Post #48
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Thanks for the compliments Already found planning elements (And armies!) addictive... I imagine I'll only find it more so! I was also thinking of doubling army sizes, just to get a few more elements on the table...



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 19 2011, 03:54 PM Post #49
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	4 Elements awaiting basing, lots awaitin paint... and I've had a cunning plan. Very tempted to base up my germainc/saxon chieftain and his body guard as a behemoth base (usually reserved for things like cave trolls and the like)...



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 29 2011, 09:13 AM Post #50
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Right... here's why I've been so quite. About 2/3rds newly painted, and the remaining 3rd has been tarting up old paint schemes (more shading primarily) Viking/generic hero (Yes, he is HUGE!) Viking/Generic blade elements Viking/generic shooters Blackshield Irish warband base Viking army thus far Irish army thus far



mattblackgod	Sep 29 2011, 12:33 PM Post #51
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	Good stuff! That Viking is a monster!



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 29 2011, 12:56 PM Post #52
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Cheers - I think he's about 35mm



v_lazy_dragon	Sep 29 2011, 01:23 PM Post #53
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Just been pointed towards a great sounding skirmish game called Age of Blood. Sounds like a cross between mordhiem and battle troll... Going to read the rules in the next few days. But what to do if I like it? It'll be back to singly based figures again; and then the dilema of wether to keep these on their bases or pop-em off and rebase them individually...



v_lazy_dragon	Oct 6 2011, 11:04 AM Post #54
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Not a proper update, as I'm awaiting a few more figures to arrive so that I can make up visually pleasing elements. Here's what I've painted thus far: Generic bishop & christian lady (Cleric) [Westwind & WI freebie] Generic germanics (Warband) [Foundry & GB]



tinker	Oct 6 2011, 05:14 PM Post #55
CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries Posts: 9,394 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Aug 4, 2008	Quite a bit of new work, they look good! I especially like how ya posed the first photo with the Viking and his Crow!. Rebasing for various gaming systems is such a hassle...



v_lazy_dragon	Oct 6 2011, 06:16 PM Post #56
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Cheers Tink With my generally lack of gaming, I'm going for look - which eventually solved my 'singly vs unit' basing...



mattblackgod	Oct 6 2011, 06:56 PM Post #57
Big boss warlord dude! Posts: 15,699 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 22, 2008	Nice stuff again Mr X



v_lazy_dragon	Oct 7 2011, 09:33 AM Post #58
Enforcer Posts: 7,569 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Thanks chief - more badly groomed barbarians were waiting for me on my desk at work So more will be being done soon.



Mr. Clean	Oct 7 2011, 02:22 PM Post #59
Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^) Posts: 3,577 Group: Members Member #134 Joined: Jan 7, 2010	Got a link to those Age of Blood rules?



Inkwell	Oct 7 2011, 04:10 PM Post #60
Toenail cutter / Tin can licker Posts: 3,113 Group: Members Member #247 Joined: Dec 18, 2010	Freaking Sweet,I love Foundry figs.That big Jarl kicks ass.I didnt realize he was so big.....I'm gonna have to get one.....someday.Really nice gang of ghouls,the base looks tremendous!



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