I've been playing HOTT for about 3 years, mostly using 28mm. About 6 months ago, I was wandering through the toy department of local store with my 2year old son when I found a 'Cavemen and Dinosaur' play set. It consisted of a clear plastic bucket with some plastic rocks and brightly coloured dinosaurs which looked to be large 15mm or small 25mm scale and about 20 cavemen who stand about 45mm tall, all for $5.00. Being a responsible parent, I thought to my self, those dinosaurs are a little small to give to a 2 yr old, but then, I'm 31, I don't chew on my toys anymore,and those cavemen, with a little green paint, and some creative putty and knife work would make great orcs/goblins to send up against my plastic 54mm Hundred Years War figures from Accurate. So now several months latter, I have three armies for 'Large' scale HOTT - Generic late medieval human army; Orcs/goblins consisting of a mix of the above mentioned cavemen and an assortment of the larger orcs from my 28mm's; and finally, Dark Hobbits, made up of a heap of plastic Chaos Warriors I picked up a few years ago when I still played that other fantasy battle game:)

I doubled the 25mm measurements for basing and ground scale, and chalked out a 6' x 6' area of our patio for the battle field - I won't go into what my wife said about that!! My current project is an army based on the Greek Myth list found on page 23. I hope to have a web page devoted to 'De Bellis Plasticus Giganticus' up by the end of the year, or at least post a couple of pictures to the list's file section, that is if y'all are interested in seeing just how strange our little hobby can become

Finally, to answer one inevitable question, I live in southern Arizona, which is how I am able to play HOTT outside in the middle of November.

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