A VBVSFCW HOTT Battle

Good afternoon,

Yesterday afternoon Dave popped around with his newly resurrected Victorian Sci Fi Hordes of the Things army for a game or two against my very own VSF army.

A Very British Victorian Science Fiction Civil War Hordes of the Things game, if you will.

Dave brought out:

• 1 Shooter General
• 5 Shooters
• 2 Blades
• 2 Knights
• 1 Hero (complete with a bean eating lackie!)
• 1 steam tank stronghold!

I deploy...

• 1 Shooter General
• 3 Shooters
• 1 Magician - steam powered zappy artillery
• 1 Behemoth - steam tank
• 1 Airboat
• 2 Flyers
• 1 Royal Observatory stronghold

Dave, being the defender, deployed his shooters on opposite flanks, so I deployed all of my boys facing his right.

Forward fly my aerial elements.

While Dave tries to advance on his left.

My fliers zip around behind Dave's line...

...whilst I bring up the steam tank to support HMAB Vulture.

Dave sends forth his Hero, and...

...well...

...first blood to Dave.

Stink!

I recall the flyers, and the tank rolls in.

Huzzah!

Dave charges his Knights past my Behemoth ...

...right into range of my Magician.

Huzzah!

The steam tank rolls forward, once more with aerial support.

Huzzah!

It was at this point that Dave considered conceding...perhaps he should have...

Anyway, with his flank's flank exposed,

...Dave's left start emerging from the patch of bad going to the east...

...whilst he tries to organise a firing line in the west.

Seeing as my heavy hitter was somewhat isolated, I belatedly roll forward the rest of my lads.

Aww stink! Shooters supporting shooters are rather effective.

And the column keeps coming from the east.

More shooting...

...more death.

Stink!

And so the tank retires, awaiting support.

Alas...

...said support...

...turned out to be it's undoing, denying it room to recoil from combat.

Stink, stink, stink!

My hope now rests on forcing Dave's end shooter to recoil from my own shooting, which he has no room to do so (since he has to recoil from the direction of fire...I think...).

He doesn't. What a time to roll a one!

More ineffectual shooting...

...silly steam powered zappy gun...while the eastern column continues to march across.

Alas...what, with shooters supporting shooters...

...and me rolling a one...

...Dave pushes my plucky Brits over the edge!

Drats!

Well played Dave, well played.

Please click here for a view from the other side.

And so we reset for another bash...

Nick

North American Forest Indians...

...an HOTT army straight out of the box!

Good evening,

Just back from a jolly fun afternoon of Black Powder (Sudan) at Dave's, and he has very generously gifted me two boxes of Italeri's Indian Warriors that were surplus to his requirements.

Replete with...

(all images copied straight from the Plastic Soldier Review site!)

• 1 [3] Shooter General
• 5 [3] Shooters
• 3 [3] Warband
• 3 [2] Lurkers
• and at least one Hero - the dude holding aloft his gun along with his scalp wielding compatriate.

25 HOTT points per box.

Sweet! Add some wolves, some eagles, a sasquatch or two, even a rain god...way doggie!

Thanks Dave,

Nick

Oo, oo, and I've already got 6 wolf elements done for my Raetian Goblins, as well as a bat element...and ooo ooo, I've got those GW BOTFA [Warmaster] eagles just floating around, three elements worth, I think...sweeeettt!

I've even got a couple of 20mm cavemen types that I could use as sasquash! Though they'd be more beasty than behemothy...

Sweet, that's another 18 odd points worth - these two boxes are looking like a 72 point army more and more! Two magician elements and we're set!

Stacks of Sticky Stickmen's Sticks Stubbornly Stuck

Good evening,

Here, in all their naked glory, are my 12 8Pk elements...and some normal spear to hopefully show the effect of double ranking two rows of miniatures on the one base.

I especially like this shot here...

...sticky sticks sticking everywhere!

As for getting around to painting them...now, where did I put those Parthians?

Nick