Thursday HOTT

'Thursday HOTT' is becoming a common title here. That's because (i) my wargames club meets on a Thursday and (ii) I sometimes play HOTT. 

Anyway, yesterday was Thursday, I went to wargaming and I played HOTT. We have new furniture in our rooms. Not sure if I like the chairs, but the 2' x 4' tables are now a constant height which helps assemble larger playing areas.

Anyway, I played a couple of games with Geoff. He brought something medieval. I used the Sorceress of Lanai (Hawaiian mythology) in my first game. It has an awful lot of ghostly hordes. 

It also has a god. She came on nice and early and hung around long enough to scare an airboat and destroy the enemy artillery.

Then it just became a matter of waiting for Geoff to pile into my mass of hordes.

Which he did.

Killed a lot of them too. Still, I could use PIPs to bring them back.

My magician general broke through the enemy lines and attacked the enemy knight general. It was a bit of an inconclusive combat.

The thing with running a horde army and planning on bringing them back is that it helps to roll more than 3 for PIPs on at least one of your bounds. I didn't. So my army was starting to look a bit low on numbers.

Anyway, before I could do anything to restore my lost army my general (who was using what PIPs I did get to at least try and keep Geoff busy) got overlapped and killed. End of game and a staggering 16g-9 loss for me.

For the next game I switched to my Alexandrian Macedonians (But Renaissance). So essentially we were playing a late medieval/early Renaissance game of DBA. 

I defended and got a lovely hill flanked by woods to set up on. Lucky me. Geoff obligingly advanced.

On the open right flank my knights rode down a double-ranked block of spears and opened things up for me.

Alexander came to the fore and, risking the enemy artillery, took out some blades. 

I then gambled on destroying Geoff's artillery. For once the dice were with me.

From there it was a simple job to recoil Geoff's knight general into the cleric behind it, for a classic right-flank cavalry sweep 7g-0 win.

After that we went home, with one game each.