HOTT Carnage, Game 3

Game 3

Undead vs. Lost World.

A steep hill to the west, a piece of bad going in the centre of my deployment zone (bother it) and another steep hill in Mark's deployment zone.


I took a Magician General, one Hero, one Dragon, two Knights, a Rider and four Hordes. Mark had a Magician General, four Warbands, two Flyers, one Behemoth and a God. Thankfully.


I advanced on my right, Mark advanced on his right and we tried to meet somewhere in the middle.


And lo and behold, my Dragon arrived on the field. Horrah!


Mark advanced his Behemoth with the intention of running down an easy Horde. I interupted his plans with my Hero and a supporting Knight.


In the meantime I advanced the Dragon, thinking that he'd whet his appetite with a flyer.


Mark's Behemoth stuck around long enough for me to bring up the aforementioned targeted Horde to help beat up the Behemoth, and low it was indeed beat up.


In the east the Dragon kept struggling with the Flyer (oh come on - factor +6 to factor +2...come on...), while Mark continued to advance his Magician and second Flyer.


While all this was happening, Mark's warband burst through the bad going and charged into my Stronghold. My Hordes that I brought back to stop them, well, didn't!


And low and behold, Mark's God turned up...


...and left the next turn! Much to the amusement of all who witnessed it!


The same turn that his warband squashed themselves against my Stronghold. And that was the game.


The Dragon never did cut down it's opponent. Useless!

Nick

HOTT Carnage, Game 2

Game 2

Numidians against Early Imperial Romans. My Early Imperial Romans! My Numidians! It was way cool using two of my armies at the same time!





I even took a God...


...but he never showed!


We advanced towards each other. My initial plan was to use the speed of my mounted to catch the EIR Blades before the got to the hill (they having deployed after my Numidians, so I was kinda in the wrong place), but...



...as we got closer, his Spears (EIR Auxilia really, but HOTT doesn't have Ax) looked like they might threaten my flank, so...


...I broke off my advance to the East and swarmed the Spear to the West.


In the meantime, I raced a Rider to the crest of the hill just in time to be contacted and double overlapped by the EIR Blades. Just as well I was uphill, I was only pushed back.



In the West, my Riders started making significant inroads into the EIR Spears (Ax).


Only to be very rudely chopped to the front.


To the East, numbers were beginning to tell.




And so died the Rider on the hill. But at least my Elephant bounced opponents to the front and flank.


Another Sp/Ax went the way of their companions...


...and I saw a golden opportunity to chop down the EIR Hero General. So I pounced...


...only to loose my own Hero General, and the game. 8AP destroyed (including General) to 6. I had overlooked the bit in the rules where Heroes die to Heroes! Bother.

Nick

HOTT Carnage, Game 1

VSF vs. Samurai

River, two pieces of rough, one steep hill in the corner.


The Samurai deployed across the river, and then proceeded to come forward. As did I, though the rough going did slow things up a tad.


As his line advanced up popped my water lurker. He didn't last too long - after a couple of recoils in hand to hand, he was sunk with a flurry of arrows from a distance.




The advance continues




The trio of Samuri Heroes pile in vs. my Magician General, Behemoth and Airboat.


One Hero was quickly ensorcelled...


...and the Airboat was also brought down in a hurry! Bother. There was now a jolly big hole in the centre of my line.



The battle for the centre continues. I try to bring my shooters on the flank into the the fight, and peel one off to lure the Samurai Hero from the flank of my Steam Tank. Thankfully, it worked.




The battle for the centre swung back and forth as time also ticked away. With this round drawing to a close, Joe charged his Hero into my Gattling Gun (finally running it down), and charging his Riders into my line of Shooters to the East, who cut his cav to pieces.

With time finally called, it was decided that the game was a draw, although to be fair I won by one point!

Nick

HOTT Carnage, November 2010

Good evening,

A fine day's gaming was had this fine day in fine company with a fine result. 10 players, four rounds...and I got second...beating out Stan by one point!

This is us, minus Mark. (The code that embeds this image is flogged directly from Robin's site!)


That's me in the middle. With the middle. And the class camera.

One of the cool things for me was seeing others using my armies - I brought along 5 armies for the event for me and others to use, and at one point four of them were in use at the same time.





I shall upload my own pictures over the next couple of days from work. The upload speed from home is abysmal...especially with Matthew sitting on the 'net every spare waking moment he has.

Bye for now,

Nick