Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Hordes of the things

Old Rules are sometimes best left to the sands of time and a thick layer of dust which they gather on the shelf, To a lot of people DBA and Hordes of the Things are among of thousands sets of rules.

From what I have been told about these rules from my friends, who are older and wiser (debatable), back in the 70's you had Wargames Research Group and that was it. Then sometime in the 80's Games workshop released Warhammer ancients and people jumped to play that for a while, as a new fad, or so I've been told.

Well a year ago I was introduced to Hordes of the things, it started with a conversation about wargames rules and that you find a historical rule set and then the same guys do a fantasy version and the fantasy version is better. So far I found this to be true, examples are Great Escape Games with Sword and Spear Fantasy (yet to play this but it has strong recommendations and from guys who refuse to play the historical version). Lion Rampant and Dragon Rampant, published by Osprey, are good games using the same core rules. I have Dragon Rampant on order, currently I have played Lion Rampant, all Dragon does is add more troop options and magic to the historical game and frees up more creative choices.

Back to point where does Hordes of the Things come in, well Hordes lets you pick your army were as DBA gives you very narrow options for your army,  although you will have variety of units you won't be able to have a full army of only one type. For example, with DBA I could play my Samurai army and I have a choice of about 7 types of units with 12 stands on the table, with Hordes of the Things I could have 3 types of units with 12 stands on the table. So I have more choice not a "take it or leave it" situation.

In the end, games are meant to be fun and I enjoy DBA and Hordes.


 So this is some of the models form my Hordes Undead army




The 28mm figure is a DND miniature that i got off a friend he was a mind flayer who I painted green and made in to some Cthulhu death god.

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