Three Games Of HOTT

There were just the two of us for the Gong Garage Gamers meet tonight. And the role-players weren't there either, so it was a very low turnout all round.

Geoff and I played HOTT with the armies I just happened to have in the crate I cart my stuff around in. All 15mm, of course.

The first game - I used Aboriginal army against the Ophidians (Thane's Games Snakemen):

Both armies had Warband. And here they are fighting each other:

The Goose Women - a Magician element:

The Ophidians had three Magicians, though, so the Goose Women kept a low profile:

The end of the game - the Aborigines had already lost their Hero to the three Magicians, so the loss of their general as well was fatal. The Ophidians lost a couple of Warband:

In the second game Geoff defended with the Knights Of Simba, an army of lion-centaur Beasts converted from some Tabletop Miniatures sci-fi figures, assisted by apeman Warband from the same company. The King of Simba leads his army into battle:

I used the Ophidians, Geoff placed a lot of bad going, and with bad PIP rolls it took ages for us to get to grips with each other:

The Ophidian Magicians again:

And here are their rank and file - Warband and Shooters. The Shooters didn't hit anything with archery, but proved deadly in close combat:

See the Ophidian Shooters? Well, they've just polished off a couple of Warband in close combat:

It all got very messy in the centre, but The Knights Of Simba were losing elements faster than the Ophidians were:

An Ophidian Magician killed an element of Beasts to win the game:

In the third game Geoff switched armies again, choosing a force from my 48AP of Weird Rech stuff. He had a strong aerial contingent:

They also had a Hero, as well as some Blades and Shooters:

I used the Ophidians again - with two victories under their belt it paid to stick to a winning formula. This time it wasn't though. In pretty much the first combats of the game their Magician general got overwhelmed by Nazi werewolves, and it was game over:

Next week we start preparing games in earnest for Gong-Con at the end of the month.

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