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Song of Blades Campaign - First Games

2011-02-11T00:01:00Z

Our Song of Blades & Heroes campaign finally kicked off on Tues, Feb 1, at our regular game night at Dragon's Lair San Antonio. It is a somewhat narrative campaign insofar as I have come up with a background story based on the following poster (click to open up the poster in a new window).

So, several intrepid warbands start making their way towards the Wizard's realm, intent on procuring work from him and keeping other warbands from doing the same. The following folks were on hand that night, playing their warbands as listed below:

Alec - Highlord Alaric's Retainers / Warmachine Dwarves (good)

Chip - Udder Devastation / Tauren Warband (neutral)

Grant - Xenomorphs! / Alien brood mother and brood (evil)

Johnnie - Griffins of Akkylannie (good)

John - Ogre Roaming Warband (evil)

Mark - Venom, Inc. / mercenaries (mainly Reaper) (neutral)

Roaming through the wilderness, the warbands matched up and battled as follows.

1) Venom, Inc. and the Ogre Roaming Warband roamed the vast forest adjacent to Tré Bliege's realm, only to stumble upon one another. As the warbands jockeyed for position, Venom, Inc's leader (a "supposedly" neutral drow priestess) bolted for a hill in between the two groups. As she was now out of shouting range of the rest of Venom, she would be on her own for a while and eventually would be set upon by the brutish ogres. As the rest of Venom finally arrived at the foot of the hill to see their leader in a desperate bid to hold the hill, they manage to watch as the ogres put her down with a gruesome blow. Most of Venom's warriors would flee the catastrophe to leave the hill to the ogres. The ogres would hold the route to the wizard's realm and continue on, while Venom, Inc., would have to find another way in. The Drow priestess would be saved, however, to lead Venom forward from this defeat.

2) Through a rough, mountain pass in a Heavy Rain, the Griffin warband had a couple of narrow passes to make it through to the lands lying outside Tré Bliege's realm. They did not, however, expect to have to battle Xenomorphs! in the process. They would try to breakthrough, using the narrow passes to their advantage, splitting up into two groups. However, a gruesome kill began a cascade of morale problems for the Griffin warriors, who would flee the field in hopes to not be infected by the alien invaders, and instead to find a better way to the wizard.

3) Udder Devastation found Highlord Alaric's Retainers holed up in some ruins, with a makeshift shrine in its center. With but a single torch in the group, the Tauren Shaman leader Hulok Trailblazer ordered the fiery destruction of the shrine, an affront to the gods of nature. As the group surged forward, dwarf crossbow bolts whizzed by but failed to stop their advance. Dwarves would begin to fall once the Tauren got within range and the bearded ones were seen to be close to breaking, but the drilled Dwarven training of the crossbow warriors put Hulok down, and the torch bearer would be the one to break and run out of the clearing with the only other means to burn the shrine down. Udder Devastation would surrender the area to the Dwarves, with Hulok managing to survive but heal poorly.

So three warbands have made it (or very nearly made it) the the wizard's realm. These 3, then, are likely opponents as they search for the wizard's keep to inquire about the job.

Song of Blades & Heroes with Blake, 01/21/11

2011-01-21T22:56:00Z

Blake and I get together occasionally here at the office for a wargame over my lunch hour. Today we played Song of Blades & Heroes as an intro game for Blake. He has put together a warband of Celtos Orcs which look really good on the table. My Tauren Warband (affectionately named "Udder Devastation") has seen lots of action but they are a 50/50 bunch that I'm still learning to play with.

We went over the campaign rules but essentially played a straight up game to get him used to the conventions of SoBaH. His warband missed a couple rounds early on which hampered his maneuverability while I was able to get in position to avoid his mounted orcs (they are designed to be hard hitters) and hit his lesser units. I managed to gruesome kill with a long shot and caused morale rolls, which became a theme of the game.

Pictured at left are the Mounted Orcs, which I was able to avoid the whole game. Meanwhile, shown in the picture at right, my Scytheclaw raptor, Thangal (tank) and Morova of the Sands initiate combat and begin to break the Orcs. Morova would knock down the orc grunt facing her (with spear), and Thangal would gruesome kill him as he lay, prompting the others to take morale cks. The orc Leader is the one with the sword. The raptor rushed in and on the turn he makes contact he gets a +1 since he has the "Dashing" skill. This resulted in another gruesome kill for which morale had to be taken again by the orcs, making the leader run off the board, which took the orcs below 50% -- which caused yet another morale check. In the end a single orc would remain to surrender the field...

My minis are from the WoW minis game. I have finished repainting Thangal, the black Tauren and have him statted up like a shaman tank. The raptor I have not touched and will not do too much to it since I like the paint job on him (just needs some wash on the gold jewelry and feather highlights). Morova of the Sands is the female with the moose horns. I have done extensive work on her and stil have some to go (the rest of her cowl and the horns, both on her head and her cowl, as well as those sticking out of her shoulders. The other two I have yet to start. The paint job they come with is pretty (just) table-ready, but they repaint pretty easily.

Song of Blades & Heroes - Tues, 1/11/11

2011-01-21T21:40:00Z

Mark and I threw down some SoBaH a couple weeks ago, his hodge-podge crew called Venom, Inc, taking on my Tauren Warband, Udder Devastation. We used it as a practice game to iron out some of the campaign rules, so we rolled for Initiative, then Terrain (hilly, no fantastic pcs), then weather (Magical Storm), and Scenario (Place of Power). I had the only Magic-using model in the game so made it a priority to get to the Place of Power. I never left but being strewn with rubble we ruled that it was rough terrain so it made it difficult for me to maneuver, and when I did manage to get in position to attack, Thangal my tank, got knocked down... It was a fun game with Mark and we played again the following Tues night (no pics then though, which is good 'cause I got my Tauren tail handed to me, both in SoBaH and in HotT).

High Elf Additions - Update

2011-01-11T23:33:00Z

Andrea's remarks about my High Elves got me motivated to actually photograph and post my finished elements I added to my High Elf HotT army, taking it to 48AP. Several of the stands are shown below, including the finished Lion Warrior stands (click for larger images).

A frontal view and a rear view of the finished White Lions stands, which I have classified as Warband.

Two more stands of Elf Spear (classified as Spear, of course!) and a single Reaper Bolt Thrower (Artillery). I am collecting shields for the spear (I like the uniform look of having the same shield for all the spear).

This accounts for 11 of the additional 24AP that I added. I will photograph my (2) Magicians, Phoenix Guard (Blade), and Hero shortly. I should probably post pictures of the original 24AP as well, eh? Something else to do, for sure.

Impromptu SoBaH Campaign

2010-12-28T18:00:00Z

In anticipation of starting our own Song of Blades & Heroes (SoBaH) campaign, I ran an impromptu couple of rounds to introduce everyone to the campaign rules found in Song of Deeds & Glory. There were a total of 7 of us ready to play, so, being the campaign GM I opted to run the first round as a referee (which helped in that I could look up rules and spend time reviewing the campaign rules without the pressure of being in the middle of a game). The participants and their warband names were as follows:

Brian - Zoom's Zombies
Chip - Tauren Warband "Udder Devastation"
Grant - Xenophobes!
Johnnie Rod - Griffins of Akkylanie
Mark - The Kobold Paper Army of Death! (PAD!)
Greer - Hill Giant & Friends
Josh Stock - Mercenaries

The guys were matched up as shown below for the first round. We played a good hour and a half, and walked through all the campaign rules (pregame, postgame, etc). We werent able to play a full second round as most folks had to leave but Grant and I managed to get another game in. Highlights of all games are below, as I can recall them.

Zoom's Zombies vs Xenophobes! (Brian vs Grant) - Scenario: Breakthrough

The Zombies were tasked with getting their forces off the far end of the table, but the Xenophobes pressured them into staying in their starting zone early, with the Inconvenient Xeno-Infected Doctor slowing them down as well. The Xenos' queen alien was indeed tough, and the Zombies' shooting couldn't save them.

Win: Xenophobes!/Grant.

The Kobold PAD! vs The Griffins of Akkylanie (Mark vs Johnnie Rod) - Scenario: Seize the High Ground

This was a horde on horde game, with both warbands trying to gain control of the central hill. It was a slugfest that drudged on and on with no clear victor, time being called at the last as this was the longest running game of the night. No clear winner, with each side gaining some experience points.

Hill Giant & Friends vs (Warmachine) Mercenaries (Greer vs Josh Stock) - Scenario: Assassination

The impressive mini Greer chose was for his amazing looking Hill Giant - converted from a Todd McFarlane action figure - wowed us all, but in the end was unable to Assassinate the Mercenary general before time was called in this game also. Win: Mercenaries/Josh.

Udder Devastation vs Xenophobes! (Chip vs Grant) - Scenario: Breakthrough

The Xenophobes once again were tasked with keeping enemy from running off the board, and I was determined not to let him pin me on my half of the board. Ona Skyshot was able to use her Woodsman skill to advantage and quickly moved off the other end of the board by moving through the woods. The rest of my warband tried to use the terrain to best advantage, but the superior numbers and the friggin' Inconvenient Doctor slowed down my Leader as the Doc is also a Slow model, a great combo Grant devised. I would lose several models, and would voluntarily leave the field to the Xenophobes to preserve my warband for their next game. Win: Xenophobes!/Grant

All in all we had a great time playing and worked out a lot of rules questions. I for one am looking forward to kiciing off the campaign in the next couple of weeks. If you are in San Antonio and want to participate, drop me a line here.

Laterz all...

chip

HIgh Elf Additions - It's a Start...

2010-06-21T18:38:00Z

Well I got my first addition to my 48AP High Elf army just about completed. It's one of six White Lions of Chrace that I'll add in as two elements of Warband. These are the first edition LIon Warriors sculpted by the Morrisons when they were at Marauder Miniatures, but later folded into the Citadel/GW lines. As with my Phoenix Warriors, these guys will differ from my main color theme in that they are a more "earthy" palette of tans, browns and bronze, with orange for an accent. Their ribbons/sashes will be blue to tie them into the main color of the army. I'll update as I get the unit finished. This particular mini still has some final touches to go - lion claws, repaint the headband med blue and put a wash on the Elf's hair and hairband. The others are in various states of "finished-ness"...

June Game Day

2010-06-07T15:16:00Z

We had a respectable turnout for Game Day on Sat, June 5, with Mack, Grant, Bronco and a new fella playing a couple practice games. Not bad for vacation season. I showed up a bit late (daddy/coach duties) and sat and painted with Mark. I gave Mark a couple pointers on sprucing up a stand of Knights that he was working on - a little washing, a little drybrushing - and I put together my Artillery unit for my HIgh Elves. I cleaned up the crew as well, and even put paint on some White Lions of Chrace (which will fight as Warband). All in all a productive afternoon and great time talking with some buddies that dropped in (Alphonso, & Brian - who was just out of surgery and a surprise visitor!). So a good start to 7 pts of my 25AP that I need to bump my HIgh Elf army up to 48AP for next months tournament. Take care all! Hope to see you next month!

Mack's One Day HotT Campaign

2010-05-17T21:56:00Z

Ok the roster for this weekend's campaign is shaping up. You can keep track of it if you click here.

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RESULTS: HotT-Hammer Non-Con Tournament II

2010-05-14T16:11:00Z

The real world has kept me busy but I finally find time to post results from our HotT-Hammer Non-Con II tournament, held April 18 in San Antonio.

After scoring zero points in round 1, Nathan stormed back to take First Place! His first tournament with his first army - a Demon Plague Army of Nurgle! Congratulations to Nathan for an awesome win. Just hope you didnt have to pledge too much to Nurgle for the win, Nathan!

He and Grant were tied going into the final round and faced off for the championship - winner take all! Grant ended up losing with his UNA army (3-1 in their first outing also!) so he finished second overall. Impressive as well...

All told, we had 13 participants play HotT on the day for which I am truly grateful. John and Alejandro came in from Austin even (thanks to his wife as she went solo with birthday party duties!!). John brought a zombie army that was incredibly frustrating to play - several of us had our own 'zombie encounters' where we mowed down untold numbers of zombie horde just to see them come back to thwart any attempts we made to win the game. I know I got his army down to 11AP lost , only to end up on the down side of a close tie. Bronco and Brian played their first games of HotT this weekend and are now hooked and building their own armies for future events! Final standings on the day were as follows:

1st - Nathan Torok - Nurgle
2nd - Grant Hopwood - UNA
3rd - Mack Harrison - Skeletons
4th - Cameron Radetzky - Picts
5th - Johnny Rod - Romans
6th - John Neff - Zombie Hordes
7th - Blake Radetzky - Empire, Nordlanders
8th - Scott Davis - American War of Independence
9th - Chip Aaron - Scorpions of Dirz
10th - Alejandro Neff - Goblins
11th - Brian Bird - Greeks
12th - Mark Leroux - High Elves
13th - Bronco - Fire Giants of Surtur

Here are a few photos from the event taken by Bronco. The first shows Grant (his daughter at left), and Cameron in the foreground, with John and Mack (I believe) in the background. The other photos are from the game that Bronco and I played, using Mack's Fire Giants vs my Scorpions. Clik on the thumbnails for larger pictures. More photos to follow as I receive them...

Thanks and congratulations go to all players, and a BIG thank you to Dragon's Lair, who opened their doors an hour early for us. I look forward to playing more HotT in the coming months with a one-day campaign coming up May 22, a Game Day in June on the 5th, and our big Double-Size HotT-Hammer tournament in July (17th pending confirmation).

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HotT-Hammer Non-Con Tournament II

2010-04-12T22:16:00Z

HotT-Hammer Non-Con Tournament II
Sunday, April 18, 2010
11am-5pm
Dragon's Lair - San Antonio
Corner of Fredericksburg Rd & Medical Dr (Fred & Med)

-24AP army per HotT 2.0 rules
-same army will be used throughout the tournament (no substitutions)
-4-round Swiss Chess format
-60mm frontage
-prizes sponsored by tournament GM and by Dragon's Lair

Players are encouraged to bring their own armies, their own terrain and stronghold(s), and dice, rulebook, roster(s) and pencil, though we will have extras of everything on hand to loan out.

Hope to see you there,
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HotT at Chimaeracon

2010-04-12T00:18:00Z

A total of (6) players competed in the HotT Open-Scale Tournament I ran at Chimaeracon, April 10. It was a four round, Swiss Chess format tournament. The open-scale format meant that as long as both players agreed on the scale, they could either play 40mm frontage armies or 60mm frontage armies. The fact that we had some undersized playing boards (30" x 30") meant that most players switched to 15mm scale after the first round.

The list of players follows, with some of their armies (as I recall them):

Cameron - Scorpions of Dirz, GW Empire, 15mm Dwarves

Mark - GW High Elves, Demonworld Orcs & Goblins

Mack - GW Undead, 40K Imperial Guard, Fire Giants

Josh - Ice Giants, 15mm Imperial Guard, 15mm Hobgoblins

Joseph - 15mm Fallschirmjagers

Chip - Scorpions of Dirz, 15mm High Elves, Demonworld Wood Elves

Congratulations go to Cameron for going undefeated for 1st Place, with Mack and Josh right behind him, respectively. Plus we got a couple new contacts that are interested in possibly joining us in the future for some HotT. The new venue at San Pedro Event Ctr was very cozy and looked well attended.

Next Sunday, April 18, is our next Non-Con Tournament, which will be HotT-Hammer themed. Though the theme is meant to get players to pull out all those unused GW figs and get them on the table as a HotT army, any minis mounted on 60mm frontage are allowed. The tournament will take place at Dragons Lair San Antonio from 11am-5pm.

Hope to see you there,

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Warmaster Bretonnian General (Commission Work)

2010-04-01T22:09:00Z

I managed to finish a command stand for Mark/Steve's Bretonnian Warmaster army. Photos of it are shown here. So that makes one thing I can mark off my New Years Resolution list...

HotT Tuesday Night in San Antonio

2010-03-31T14:56:39Z

We had an AWESOME(!!!) turnout for HotT last night on LSHM-San Antonio's regularly scheduled game night. A total of 12 players showed up for a game, some of them 2v2 games. A big thank you to Alec as he helped out with the GMing (though some DBA rules crept in from his memory!). Sadly none of us had our cameras with us so no pics...

Johnnie (Romans)

Greer (AT-43 Therians)

Grant (AT-43 UNA)

Brian (Johnnie's Romans)

Mark (my Dark Elves)

Mack (Undead, Fire Giants)

Nathan (Fire Giants)

Alex (just observed)

Blake (Picts)

Cameron (Empire)

Scott (my Bug army & Dark Elves)

myself (Bug army)

I think some guys got in three games, with most getting 2 games in. It is looking like we can get a pretty good turnout to these events as long as we keep the fire burning.chip

Upcoming Hordes of the Things Schedule

2010-03-29T21:30:00Z

We are continuing our HotT gaming with a new schedule for the next few months, including a one-day campaign, Game Days (build armies/strongholds/make terrain/practice games) and a Double-Size HotT tournament, not to mention an open scale tournament at Chimaeracon in two weeks. Make sure to take note of the following dates:

--Sat, April 10 - Chimaeracon Open-Scale Tournament, 7-11pm (www.chimaeracon.com)

--SUNDAY, April 18 - HotT-Hammer Tournament, 11am-5pm Dragon's Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney)

--Sat, May 15 - HotT One-Day Campaign, 11am-5pm, Dragon's Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney; prereg at DesertScrb@aol.com)

--Sat June 5 - HotT Game Day - 11am-5pm, Dragon's Lair San Antonio (army building, terrain making, stronghold building, practice games, etc)

--Sat, July 17 - Double-Sized HotT-Hammer Tournament - 11am-5pm, Dragon's Lair San Antonio (48AP armies, 60mm frontage tourney)

Hope you can make some of our events...

New Skorne HotT Army

2010-03-24T23:00:00Z

So a local store here is closing out some of their Warmachine minis that hadnt moved for a couple years, and once they dropped around 50% I started considering picking a bunch up for a HotT army. Evidently the San Antonio crowd are not very fond of the Skorne faction so there was plenty to choose from. Here's the start of it (images courtesy of Privateer Press, btw; as many of you may know and suspect: mine are unpainted LOL)...

This is my Mage General, Makeda.:

I'll classify her as a Magician General (since she is a Skorne Warcaster), or as a Hero General.

This is the Skorne Karax:

Will be (2) Spear.

This is the Arcuarii:

These guys are pretty stout so I am anticipating only getting two to a base, two boxes worth giving me (4) Blade. They are armed with Harpoons and nice armor.

The Titan Cannoneer:

Artillery in my army, the 3AP being odd means I'll have to find another odd-AP element...

A single blister of Venators (2 to a pack) gives me (1) Shooter.

The single Ferox mtd trooper gives me an option to either base it with my General or use it as a solitary Lurker, thereby solving the odd-AP problem from having the Artillery. However, I'm not convinced a Lurker could "lurk" in that kind of armor...

And finally, the Cyclops Savage:

This mini is very tall and very commanding so I first thought Behemoth, but there are other more "behemothy" Behemoths in the Skorne army, such as...

Rhinodon (which I don't have boohoo)

The fluff on the Cyclops Savage says he is more reliant on his finely honed weapon and his fighting prowess, so he doesnt really fit Behemoth. Sounds very much a Blade element, but I already have four Blade with the Arcuarii above, so I am thinking Hero. It's not the most heroic Cyclops in the faction but it's the only one I have so he'll just have to make due.

Your thoughts and suggestions are certainly appreciated. LMK what you think...

chip

HotT Game Day - March 13

2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

Saturday saw another HotT Game Day and folks were keen on playing games instead of painting or working on terrain. Blake and I planned ahead to meet early since I had to take my daughter to baseball practice so we set up a board and had at it at 10am, he with his Spider Riders [(4) Riders, (2) Heroes, Blade General, Spear, Shooter, Flyer] and I with my High Elves. He started to shoot a gap to make a run to my stronghold (so I thought) so I concentrated on getting my line of foot to his Blade General as quickly as possible, who would only be protected by Shooters on one side and a Spear on the other. Once I showed my hand, though, his mounted swung back to my army and managed to destroy (something) to create a crease in my flank, which he exploited and I could not recover from. He managed to hit my Sneaker in the flank, causing him to flee through my entire line - sideways... that was interesting... He finally got my Hero General to win the game IIRC.

Another gentleman - Mark if I recall correctly - from our growing mailing list showed up to play/learn and he and Blake played while I was away at baseball. Not sure what happened in that game but I think Mark beat Blake for his first game. Upon my return, Grant had showed up and was playing Mark, Grant with his brand-spanking new (and kick-a**) AT-43 UNA force. Mark was playing with my Elves. Mark hampered his deployment by attempting to send all 3 mtd elements THROUGH a bog in column, hoping to get out of it before the slow foot of the UNA force could close. Well Grant used a wonderful strategy with the flyers essentially locking the column in the bog with ZOCs. The mtd never recovered to be effective, and Grant won on units destroyed.

I then played Grant, my Elves vs his UNA. He was very upbeat that his flyers had been so effective, and going into our game figured they were going to win the game for him again. He flew them across the board to try and lock the Elven Knights again, but he didnt realize the Elven Hero General was one move away from ZOCing HIM! He freaked and didnt get the pips to fly the first Flyer out of harm's way. The Hero promptly dispatched the jump troops, and for whatever reason, Grant decided not to use 2 of his 4 pips to get the second Flyer out of range of my Hero, who on my bound hit him in the flank. Much wailing and lamenting started at this point as Grant began crying that the game was "(f***ing) over, it's over"... On and on he went, as he paced the game store, the D&Ders on the next table began mocking him under their breath. Blake and I tried to tell him that the game was faaaaaar from over, and, in hindsight, hopefully he learned how this game can sway back and forth. When we rolled the combat, a 6-1 roll took place - in Grant's favor!!! The Hero whiffed!!! Man I knew I had missed the opportunity to take care of his last Flyer, and it DID come back to haunt me. I recoiled and Grant flew them out on his bound. I pressed my attacks where I could, lost more advantaged combats, and would eventually be whittled down as the Flyer hampered my movement of reserve troops that could have been used elsewhere. Oh, and my Sneaker got into combat with his Blade General - TWICE - and both times I had double overlaps. But I just couldnt win those dice rolls. It was a very very tense game and lasted close to 2 hours IIRC. We were both drained at the end of the game, and both talked about adding new and different elements to ea of our armies.

Here are a couple images from our game:

An overall shot of the final couple of rounds, with Grant's stunning Jump Troop Flyers shown center (basing courtesy of John G).

My Hero General simply surrounded by the UNA. He would manage to beat back the sci-fi aggressors and survive another round, when he would surrender the army - at least to live another day to avenge his losses...

Our next scheduled event is at Chimaeracon on Saturday night, April 10, an open scale tournament in which you can change your armies each round, and change scales as long as there are opposing armies available. Hope to see you there.

The weekend following that will be our HotT-Hammer tournament at Dragons Lair, 11am-5pm. Hope to see you there as well...

Take care all,

chip

Which Army for 48pt Expansion

2010-03-10T21:21:00Z

Ok, the plan is to have a 48 pt HotT Tournament in July so the question is which army/armies to double up on ('cause we all know I won't be able to do a full 48pts from scratch before then, or at least I do). It'll either be my High Elves (most likely) or my Dark Elves. Here is my High Elf roster as it stands:

-High Elf Commander w/retinue (Hero General)

-(2) Dragon Knights (Knights)

-(1) Reaver Knight (Rider)

-(2) Elf Spear (Spear)

-(2) Elf Bowmen

-Phoenix Guard (Blade)

- Shadow Warriors (Sneaker)

- Dryad (Lurker)

I'd like to add (2) Magician stands as I feel this army is lacking in the magicky elfness, and (2) more spear. That's half a new army there. Another Blade would be cool (the Phoenix Guard figures are awesome!). But what else, what else? Any suggestions? Please drop me a line and LMK what you think...

chip

HotT Game Days, Nov-Jan, 2009-10

2010-03-01T23:33:00Z

Well, my first post and I thought I'd finally get something posted about our Hordes of the Things Game Days here in San Antonio. I have been supporting the game by scheduling a HotT game day once a month for 2 months, then having a tournament the third month. That schedule gives us a tournament once a quarter, with two months in between to build new armies, terrain and strongholds and also to have practice games. We started in November 2009 with our first Game Day, followed up in December with another, then January we had our first tournament (big tournament wrapup to follow!).

At the moment, we are concentrating on 25mm/28mm minis for what we like to call our ":HotT-Hammer" series. Essentially, it's just an effort to put together our mounds of unused GW Warhammer minis into functioning HotT armies. Blake has several Empire armies, I have a couple Elf armies, Cameron has an Orc army, and Mack had an Undead army. Since we started our monthly meetings, Blake has built his Goblin army, Mack has added a Spider army, I have built a Scorpions of Dirz army and Johnnie really put some old minis to use. He brought a ton of painted Romans he had in his closet for 20-some-odd years and put them to use as his first HotT army. He had so many he's got about 72AP worth - enough for a Big Battle HotT army.

I have some photos I'm gonna try to add to this post so it might take me a couple tries to get it right. We just had our February Game Day (post to follow), and are looking forward to our March Game Day then our tournament in April, as well as a HotT event at Chimaeracon (www.chimaeracon.com). Upcoming schedule:

March Game Day: March 13, Dragons Lair - San Antonio

Chimaeracon HotT Event: April 9-11 (time TBA)

April Tournament: date TBA

My Scorpion Army, using prepainted Rackham Confrontation minis.

Mack's Spider army. He's got 6AP more hiding somewhere...

Mack's Undead Army using some really old Citadel Undead minis. You can just make out the Skull Chucka to the left.

Drop me a word!

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Welcome

2010-02-13T11:29:32Z

Welcome to my blog. I hope to put my thoughts, ideas, projects and plans here to help keep me "organized" and "focused". LOL. I'll use it for my gaming, my art, my kids and family, and essentially anything I feel like. It's currently free so you'll have to just accept that you'll get the ads at the top for the time being. Perhaps after I get past my hospital bills I'll be able to upgrade to a paid blog... don't hold your breath for the moment, however. Thanks for visiting...
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