tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post4638021030491833520..comments2024-03-27T12:37:27.837-07:00Comments on Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog: HOTT Campaign Weekend Kick-off!timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-16804091401083783722009-06-09T09:18:13.736-07:002009-06-09T09:18:13.736-07:00Eight players actually... Two had never played DBA...Eight players actually... Two had never played <a href="http://www.wargamesresearchgroup.net/DBA.html" rel="nofollow">DBA</a> or <a href="http://www.wargamesresearchgroup.net/Hordes.html" rel="nofollow">Hordes of the Things</a> before in their lives, One had played DBA but not HOTT (there are a few differences). <br /><br />I like HOTT better than Warhammer. I'm not saying HOTT IS better than WH - because it's purely a matter of taste. The systems are really quite different. HOTT is very simple and somewhat abstract and you don't need very many figures for an army. WH is very detailed. <br /><br />In HOTT troops are defined purely by how they fought or were used in battle rather than a long line of statistics, a list of their specific weapons and armaments and an endless list of special abilities and rules... In HOTT a "Blade" stand can be anything from Dwarf Axemen to Roman Legionnaires to Elves with Greatswords to heavily armoured Uruk-hai with sword and shield to Medieval Halbardiers... they all share the same "attributes" - they are all heavy infantry that close with the enemy and fight in close combat and are pretty resiliant and hard-hitting versus other foot troops... So they preform exactly the same in the game.<br /><br />Magic is also simple and quite abstracted. There are no spell lists to choose from - magicians simply do a "magic attack" - could be lightning, fireballs, great gusts of wind, an earthquake under the target unit... whatever you want it to be - it all works the same in the game and is sort of like high-powered, long range artillery that is particularly effective against large monsterous things ("behemoths") heroic characters, other magicians, etc, but is somwhat diminished by the presence of paladins or clerics...<br /><br />It was also a great bunch of guys playing together so there was no arguing - this was haelped by the fact that the system i elegant in it's simplicity and there was no time sent looking at the other guys army book trying to understand how his big crazy war machine or monster actually works and if it's really allowed to eat your whole army without you being able to do a damn thing about it like he says it is...timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-78893537816261490592009-06-09T04:58:33.552-07:002009-06-09T04:58:33.552-07:00Looks like a great game. Do I understand correctl...Looks like a great game. Do I understand correctly that you played this entire game, with 6 players, including some newbies, in a few hours only? Looks like these rules work a lot faster than GW? How about magic, is it implemented? What is your opinion about warhammer vs hott rulesets?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270347372734873983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-72667363912879205372009-06-07T11:33:40.933-07:002009-06-07T11:33:40.933-07:00A couple hours...?A couple hours...?timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-26893504626266426582009-06-07T11:28:33.777-07:002009-06-07T11:28:33.777-07:00That looked like an excellent game of HOTT. Lookin...That looked like an excellent game of HOTT. Looking forward to reading the reports of the competition games. How long did the big game take to play?Little Odohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16554557447121289551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-73852922168646312972009-06-07T08:01:19.681-07:002009-06-07T08:01:19.681-07:00The map was painted on a 1/4" MDF board and w...The map was painted on a 1/4" MDF board and was about 18"x15". There'll be pics up tomorrow of the markers moving about on it... Though in all the excitement I don't think I took pics of EACH years movements...timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-43750780829858234612009-06-07T03:58:14.969-07:002009-06-07T03:58:14.969-07:00Excellent battle report. It looked like a great ga...Excellent battle report. It looked like a great game. Thanks for sharing this.BigLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960213980906190335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-38941283439243848442009-06-06T17:22:43.837-07:002009-06-06T17:22:43.837-07:00I keep meaning to ask - how big is your painted ma...I keep meaning to ask - how big is your painted map? You mentioned moving the army markers you made previuosly around on it, I think.Fitz-Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15510866929782142007noreply@blogger.com