HOTTBAP 2003 Report
By James Ewins
Travelled
to
Got
to the hall and said hi to BTL, and the almost usual group of suspects - and
realized with no Seb and no Jay, I was in trouble already. Deployed the army to
polite comments...
Rich's
Fat Lady:
God - the Fat Lady, preparing to sing
Behemoth - large and vaguely Norse giant
Flyer - a Valkyrie from the Celtos range
Warband - synchronized berserkers
Spear general - Vikings
2 Spears - more Vikings
3 Blades - more Vikings
Stronghold
- opera stage (to prevent anyone mistaking this for a historical army attempt)
A
good solid core with enough toys to enjoy the games, I thought. Turns out to be
enough toys to lose every game as well, the Behemoth being almost more of a
liability than the God(dess).
All
the games were enjoyable, the closest of which being the one against Tony's
fishmen - the god(dess) actually turned up and stayed, taking out his general,
artillery, and a few hordes - but at this point I was 8 points dead and a one
on the pip dice would lose me the game - 2 points would win it. Given the
choice of rider with a magician overlap, or the magician it self, I went for
glory, and glory went out the window. Hey ho - very tense fun game.
All
the games were played in a good fun spirit, and there was a good mix of armies
- and only one cheesey RBS-inspired game-winning army :-). The wolfen from
Thane's games are very pretty in the metal, 12 beast can be a worrying army to
face with only one mounted element...
Spent
the early evening playing Fluxx, to everyone's annoyance, and Carcassone,
badly. Then got the train home to receive abusive messages from Exmouth club
members...