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Wargames: Hordes of the Things and DBx: Carolingian Frankish 639 AD to 888 AD
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 05:03 AM
Hordes of the Things
| | The Carolingian Franks resulted from a long look at the figures available in the Bring and Buy area of Colours in 2000. Well, my defense is that generally it is very difficult to get to the Bring and Buy area and by the time you have beaten your way through the crowd to see what is on offer, you've lost that positive feeling you had that you were going to spend on a few figures to fill out part of your collection. The Bring and Buy at Colours was in a separate area of the show, easy to get to and, unfortunately, not terribly crowded. This resulted in the ability to stand and ponder long over the figures. I claim that my admirable self control was working at the time as I did not pick up the painted Successors that were also there at a good bargain price.
The Carolingians were mostly well painted and there was a lot of them at the very reasonable price of £200. Also, with the figures that were present, I figured that when coupled with the Ostrogoths and Visigoths that I already owned, a lot more morphable armies were possible. I also figured that for the very minor addition of an element of clerics, a Hordes of the Things Army was also possible. Did I need any more justification?
Of course, the wonderful thing about the Hordes of the Things Army for the Carolingians is that it allows them to be used ala Thomas Bulfinch, or the Song of Roland, or any of a number of other tales from the past.
Presented here then are details of the Carolingians. This article is therefore divided into several parts, all concerned with wargaming with the Carolingians under DBM, DBA or HotT. A separate article will be prepared later with some historical and/or mythical information.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Nazrat, Lord of the Bungle
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Friday, August 08, 2003 - 08:00 AM
Hordes of the Things
| | After the beer at the Grand Junction Arms in Bulbourne with the Tring Wargames Club that resulted in the Dad's Army Hordes of the Things Army (see elsewhere in Thomo's Hole), I felt that my time with 28mm figures was finished. Unfortunately, those nasty folks at Foundry have a habit of sending out vouchers with their mail orders that give discounts for future figure purchases.
As I had ordered 7 packs they telephoned to say that by ordering another pack I could get the postage free. Well, one thing led to another and I bought the 7 packs and paid the £7.00 postage. They did however, give me a free pack worth £8.50 and a discount certificate allowing me to purchase 9 packs of figures for the price of 6 packs and no postage.
Well, one can't pass up a bargain, can one. As a result of having a few hours to kill in a hotel in Dubai and spending that time surfing the net, I bounced into the Foundry website. Looking through the figures in the online catalogue, I happened into the Dark Africa range of figures. There, in one of the packs, was a rather scantily clad gentleman with long hair. In with the female hunters was a scantily clad female figure. From those two figures was born the idea of Nazrat, Lord of the Bungle.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Robot Wars
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 11:55 PM
Hordes of the Things
| Walking around Toys 'r Us at Wollongong (or was that Toyworld or Uncle Pete's?), I came across some packets of Robot Wars robots on sale. Robot Wars is, of course, the TV show where people built remote controlled Battle Robots and go out and bash the heck out of the other contestants robots (and I must admit that the English version of the show was better than the American version - as were the English commentary team).
There were four packets of three robots each, including contestant robots as well as some of the house robots and the Refbot. They were all just under 40mm wide, so would be perfect for both 15mm or 25mm basing. And they were on special, 20% off, so who could resist.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Garden Gnomes
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Friday, June 06, 2003 - 02:16 AM
Hordes of the Things
| I had always liked the Garden Gnome Hordes of the Things army available from Peter Pig. Unfortunately, before getting around to getting a set of figures, number two son, Steven, beat me to it. Still, 12 months of concentrated haggling saw the army slide across to my possession.
Note: A painting matrix I put together whilst painting these provides the following base colours. Mix them between gnomes:
Hat - mostly red with some blue, some yellow and very occasionally a dark green
Beard - almost universally white (one gnome spotted had a grey beard)
Shirt - Red, Green (mid or grass green), yellow, blue (mid, dark and light). These colours are split in fairly even proportions.
Trousers - Mostly blues, red or greens. Occasional black, yellow or brown.
Boots and Belts - black or brown.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Dad's Army
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 03:13 AM
Hordes of the Things
| After deciding on doing 28mm Pirates as one Hordes of the Things Army for Berkeley in 2002, I needed a second army to make a pair. I did, of course, consider doing some Spanish, or some English Naval Forces as an opponent to the Pirates. I looked at the remarkable Pax Limpopo figures searching for opposition. I flicked through books and magazines at home searching for some inspiration and then, all of a sudden, I was watching TV and an old episode of Dad's Army was playing. There was my inspiration. After chatting the idea over with the guys at the Tring Wargames Club over a beer one Friday Night at the Grand Junction Arms in Bulbourne (after club meeting), the Dad's Army Hordes of the Things Army was born.
Note: 30 June 2003 - Bugger - Keith in Brisbane now has some figures - bet he finishes his before I finish mine :-(
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Boltor the Bombastic - Hero (retd) and his villagers
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 08:45 AM
Hordes of the Things
| Boltor the Bombastic came from walking around the Sheffield Triples in 2001 with too much time on my hands as the Triples competition had been cancelled that year (nothing at all do to with foot and mouth disease as the English hadn't discovered it running rampant at that time). Well, to be totally honest, it also came from the fact that my wife had not held my Visa Card or Cheque Account for me that weekend either. A fatal combination - a wargamer, a wargames show with lots of Trade stands and either rubber money or the plastic fantastic in hand. Well, what is a fellow to do, I ask you?
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Pirates ... Ahoy
Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 01:46 AM
Hordes of the Things
| Travelling from place to place a lot and always on the lookout for something to read on a flight or in a hotel room, I came across a general work on Pirates. This was a well written piece and inspired me to consider a pirates army for Hordes of the Things. A quick consultation with The Stronghold and a list was made for pirates. A variation or two was added, some figures purchased and we had a pirate army. Mind you, some of the figures came from Berkeley 2001 where I won a couple of packets of Foundry Pirates as part of the raffle.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things, Amazons
Posted by: ThomoTheLost on Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 05:21 AM
Hordes of the Things
| Whilst walking around the SELWG show in at Crystal Palace in London in October 1999, I stopped off at the Museum Miniatures stand as I have a habit of doing. There, amongst other things, I noticed some naked females (15mm ones) and that reminded me of a Hordes of the Things army that Alan Patrick had done some time ago based around that famous female fighter, Xena! I couldn't resist and picked up some figures.
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Wargames: Hordes of the Things
Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 06:10 AM
Hordes of the Things
| Hordes of the Things (or HotT, or HOTT for short) is probably my second favourite ruleset behind General Quarters. I have been playing Hordes of the Things since the rules were first released in 1991. They are a set of fantasy wargames rules produced by the Wargames Research Group in England and they are pretty much flexible enough to reproduce almost any period of warfare. During 2001 they are being revised with a view to produce a second edition in eary 2002. This second edition was realeased in 2002.
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