Ents vs Elves

It's been a while since I played a game of HOTT, so I decided to set one up the other day. Doing so I came across this Ent army I made for my wife over 20 years ago. It's probably not been out on the table in over 15 years, so I though I'd give it an outing.

It's not one of my finest efforts in terms of painting, and the figures aren't the best either (Irregular Miniatures mostly), but they were OK in their day I guess.

The army consists of three Behemoths (including the general) four Warband, two Lurkers and a beast. The warband represent smaller Ents, the lurkers are allied woodmen and the beast is a shape-shifter in bear-form.

They ended up facing my Elves, who defended and fielded a hero, four shooters, two riders and four spears (which included the general).

The Ents formed up - the larger Ents formed the centre and the faster, smaller ones were on the flanks. The bear was on the far left.

The Elves occupied a field on their right, but the ally woodmen were hiding in it and ambushed them. The Elven archers fought them off.

The Ents advanced, and the Elves sent out cavalry to turn their right flank. Some smaller Ents occupied a hill to delay them.

The cavalry attacked, but the Ents swept down the slope (like that landslide in The Railway Children) and destroyed one element of them.

However the other cavalry swung into their rear, charged down the slope and destroyed them in turn.

However the cavalry had been delayed long enough that the Ents had now reached the Elven line

The first attack saw some of the Elves pushed back, and element of spears destroyed  ... and their general slain!

With 6AP lost to the Ents' 4AP the loss of their general meant that the Elves broke.

This was the final position; the Elves still had strong flanks, but their centre was buckling even without taking into account the loss of their general.

So in their first outing in decades the Ents picked up a swift, if lucky win.