Tuesday 8 March 2016

The Waltrop Campaign / Day 10 / HotT Battle Report

Day 10 of our Waltrop campaign was fun. Normally our HotT games are decided quickly, but this time the armies were broken up and there was lots of interesting movement on the battlefield.

The Greeks under the command of Fibos invaded hexagon 39 on the campaign map. Krüger played the orcs with this list:

Warband General, 5 Warbands, 1 Hero, 2 Beasts, 2 Shooters

He was the defender and placed the terrain. Since the battle took place in the jungle where the orcs live, he filled the tabletop with tropical forests. I think he used all the area terrain and model palm trees we have.



αρχαίοι Έλληνες οπλίτες

I played the Greeks:

Spears General (officer Fibos), 5 Spears, 2 Riders, 4 Shooters

Krüger deployed one part of his army, the hero and the beasts, on his right flank and all his other troops on his left flank, in front of a very large forest.

I deployed all of my army on my left flank. I placed my block of spears opposite to Krüger’s hero and his beasts and I placed 3 shooters opposite to Krüger’s block of warbands.



orcs

Krüger moved his warbands into the large forest. It took him several rounds to get near my shooters. Also, he had an element of shooters all the way on his left side. This element wasn’t able to do much during our game.

Early in the game my spears destroyed both of Krüger’s beasts and one of his shooters.



ancient greeks versus orcs

I went with my general for Krüger’s hero, which was kind of risky, and with my riders for his base camp. Krüger avoided fighting my general, though, and my riders weren’t able to destroy the camp.



my daughter watching us

My daughter had been watching the game and started to play „I put … into my suitcase“ with Krüger. A toothbrush, a doll, a car key, a barbie DVD, a Greek figure, Greek dice, a robot with mustard, a camera.



ancient greeks versus orcs

When the orc warbands got into close combat with my slingers, they destroyed two of them. I had my revenge, killing two warbands with an element of shooters, with the help of two elements of spears as side support. Krüger’s orc warbands killed a third element of shooters, but then my last remaining element of shooters destroyed another one of Krüger’s warbands, with the help of some spears giving side support.



ancient greeks versus orcs

Having destroyed two elements of beasts, one element of shooters and three warbands, I won the game after two hours. Well done, officer Fibos. Now the Greeks occupy hexagon 39.



campaign map

By the way, I keep getting asked if we use 28 mm, 15 mm or 6 mm miniatures. I assure you these are 28 mm miniatures. The terrain we are using isn’t your usual wargaming terrain though, I guess. It’s more abstract. Let’s call it old school, if you need to put it in some category. Maybe it looks odd to you. The reason why it looks the way it does is that I like glueing coloured paper on objects. I seriously don’t know why. Might be some mental disorder. But as you can see, it’s pretty harmless.

12 comments:

  1. Very nice miniatures and table :) Thanks for adding me :D Cheers!

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  2. What a wonderful game, I rather like the table set up too.

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  3. I think the game "I put … into my suitcase" is quite unknown in english.


    "Mother went shopping" is similar to our german game "Ich packe meinen Koffer"

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  4. Does this mean that Krüger started to play multiple games at the same time? Impressive. I only knew Simultanious Exhibitions in chess. Perhaps you should find out how many different games you can successfully play at the same time.

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    1. Have you ever played "I put … into my suitcase“? Or "Mother went shopping", as Jörg calls it? It's a very simple game. No Magnus Carlsen or Lee Sedol needed to play this game.

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  5. Hi, its an fantastic battle report and really funny set up. I am starting to get into this world of HOTT (and wargaming in general) and your work has become a motivation to go foward. I will abuse from your generosity and ask, How do you measure tactical movements in HOTT? I dont understand the idea of "paces", how do you translate that into inches o centimeters. Keep the good job sir :)

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    1. Hello Diego, thanks for your kind comment and sorry for my late reply. (Google didn't send me a notification about your comment.)

      In our case, 100 paces are 2 inch, but this is scalable, according to the size of your miniatures, bases and battlefield.

      The rules recommend this: "The ground scale varies with the size of army represented, but for convenience 25mm or 1'' on the table can be taken as equivalent to 100 paces in real life if using 15mm or smaller figures, or 10mm as equivalent to 25 paces if using 25mm figures."

      What we did is double the bases and movement rates that are recommended for 15mm figures.

      I hope this helps. Cheers, Karl

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