Friday, November 29, 2013

Something different... for me!

Tomorrow I shall, for the first time ever, be participating in a HoTT tournament.  I'm hoping my long past experience of DBM will keep me reasonably competitive.   Not that I'm expecting much in the way of battlefield success, but to be there just to see the imagination that goes in to the HoTT armies of the other contestants.  
7YW Russian HoTT Army ...
or is the M'yasmic Expeditionary Force
about to embark upon an exploratory mission?
Me?  Well, my army is probably about as unimaginative as you could get, and lacks the 'glamour' of gods, heros, dragons and lurkers of the deep.  But I hope it will have a certain ... charm ... of its own:

Army Left Wing: Shooters, Artillery,
Riders and Lurkers.
Here it is:  a plain old ordinary, down to earth, unpretentious (yeah, right) 7YW Russian Army, or perhaps it is an expeditionary force from the Grand Duchy of M'yasma, making ready to march eastwards into mysterious, magical realms, there to encounter dragons, sorcerors, heros, yea, even gods, and, possibly too, dark denizens of deep and desert.
Army Right Wing: Artillery, Shooters and Spears; Lurkers
and Knights

The Army comprises:
2 x Cuirassier stands (Knights.  One is the GoC stand) @ 2AP =  4AP
2 x Hussar stands (Riders) @ 2AP                                           =  4AP
2 x Grenadier stands (Spears) @ 2AP                                      =  4AP
4 x Musketeer stands (Shooters) @ 2AP                                  =  8AP
1 x Artillery stand (Artillery) @ 3AP                                         =  3AP
1 x Jager stand (Lurker) @ 1AP                                               =  1AP 
12 stands                Grand Totals                                              =24AP
Looking along the line...
The lawn could use a mow...

21 comments:

  1. Ion,

    To pair with the 3 point artillery, you could add some Clerics ( M'yasman Orthadox preists with appropriate Icon ). Very useful for human armies to counter those mythical/magical heretics.
    For that period a hero ( ie:Tristram Shandy or Barry Lyndon ) gives you a bit of punch.

    Cheers,

    Stan.

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    1. Had it been a Prussian Army, or even a British, I might have gone in for a 'hero' figure of some sort. Dear old Aleks Suvorov seems just a bit on the late side... A cleric for a (vaguely) Russian army simply didn't occur to me (not that I have a cleric figure anyhow!) . But I do like the notion!

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    2. I have another couple of those Roco Minitanks vehicles for you tomorrow too..

      He! He!

      I love your 'world creation' stuff.
      R

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  2. Ion

    Looks great.. look forward to seeing it 'in the flesh'.

    R

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    1. Thanks Robin,

      I'll be honest, and tell you I picked it up ready painted second hand from a bring-n-buy several years ago. Except for the jagers and the flocking of the bases, oh, and the flags and flag staffs, what you see is 'as bought'. A very nice paint job I thought, though not quite 'finished' as the photos tell me.

      But the original owner's attempt at the flags was not a success (much too difficult a design to render by hand in my view). Having researched the 7YW Russian flag design, I found appropriate images and worked out a method of 'mirror imaging' the design. Printed out the result.

      The flag staffs are spares from my Wargames Factory War of the Spanish Succession figures.
      Cheers,
      Ion

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  3. Good luck for tomorrow Ion. Your troops look good!

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    1. Thanks, Paul.
      I can take only a small portion of the credit - they're part of a ready painted army I bought 2nd hand a few years ago (see my reply to Robin Sutton).
      Cheers,
      Ion

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  4. Also meant to say that you troops may just bring a touch of class to what might otherwise be seen as an unseemly brawl between Gods, Dragons and other uncivilized elements (apart from my VSF troops.. being representatives of Her majesty, of course!!)
    R :-)

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  5. I also have a Roman Army originally designed for DBA. A deity might be appropriate there. Does anyone do a Mithras figure...?

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  6. I look forward to hearing your army's adventures where no syw army has gone before (probably) with pictures?
    Have a super time!
    Alan

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    1. It is pretty much unknown territory for me... The camera is packed! :-)

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  7. Looks great Ion. Also check out Wargames factory sale (For the WSS figures) as some are 40% off. Ill try and pop down tomorrow and tell you (or ring)

    Cheers

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    1. Wow! Sounds just the ticket! I hope WSS Horse is one of them. I want 7 packs...

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  8. What? No hot-air balloon? . . . I've never come across a HotT tourney but I'd love to do so. Please try to take some photos of the more interesting armies to share with us.

    But most importantly, sir, I do hope that you have a lot of fun!


    -- Jeff

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    1. Thanks Jeff - so do I. I'm hoping that the other guys live up to the promise of previous years' armies. There have been armies of spiders, air boats, dinosaurs, Viet Nam war Americans... Should be something to see all right!

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  9. I don't know sounds like a pretty outlandish lot to me, all those firesticks and so on!

    At least you didn't go in for Russian infantry as hordes!

    Enjoy!

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    1. Damn!! I wish I'd thought of that! I do believe hordes come at 1AP the time, and the Russians do say that quantity has a quality all of its own...

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  10. Well met on the field of glory today Ion! As requested, here's my HOTT and random stuff blog:
    http://hordesofthings.blogspot.co.nz/
    and Napoleonics blog:
    http://chasseuracheval.blogspot.co.nz/

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    1. Hi Mark -
      Yep - I enjoyed today. Thanks for the links - though in fact I found them fairly quickly after I got home. They now appear on my dashboard reading list...
      Cheers,
      Ion

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  11. Nice looking troops, hope the tournament has been good for you!

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