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Post by terry37 on Jun 21, 2019 15:17:28 GMT
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Post by terry37 on Jun 20, 2019 18:33:45 GMT
I am looking at a uniquely different 15 MM HOTT army – an Amazon army. Now I know the first thought that comes to your mind is – “there’s nothing new about that!!! But it is not the typical Amazon army we all normally think of with scantily dressed babes with bows and swords, but a more modern approach. OK, if you’re read this far then you might find this interesting. The Amazon army I want to do is based on book, movie and TV femme fatales, and especially those who are less politically correct and probably even a little/a lot dysfunctional. Here is my first blush approach. My idea is to have one figure per base/element, and categorized by their persona, characteristic or strength as depicted in the media. 2 x Blade – Michonne from Walking Dead, The Bride from Kill Bill 3 x Shooter – Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games, Carol from The Walking Dead, Ellen from Quick and the Dead 1 x Warband – Jessica Jones from Jessica Jones 1 x Magician – Lucy from Lucy 1 x Rider – Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 1 x Hero – Wonder Woman from Wonder Woman 1 x Flyer – Supergirl from Supergirl 1 x – Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road Stronghold - ?? These are the ladies that come to mind and would be fun to create and paint. So, I am looking for possible figures and welcome any suggestions. I am also needing a 15 MM motorcycle, but not a big hog like a Harley Davidson. But the type that Lisbeth rides. I am also struggling with exactly how to play Furiosa, so would appreciate thoughts there, as well as thoughts on those I have listed – i.re. do I have them as the right type of element? Thanks and any help or comments is appreciated. Terry
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Post by terry37 on Jun 17, 2019 17:39:58 GMT
Love HOTT and always my first choice for a game! Very much enjoyed your report, and commend you on the creations of the armies to get into it. The one thing that struck me right off, was your woods - how do you establish the border of them for combat? For me, I would recommend a piece of felt or something and then set the tress on it, that way there would be no question if the element is in the woods or not.
What armies will you all be building, as you said you have some coming in the mail?
Thanks for the enjoyable report!
Terry
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Post by terry37 on Jun 16, 2019 20:15:22 GMT
Just wanted to share a work in progress report on the new Purger elements. They are far from finished, but will give an idea of where I'm heading. The clowns base coats are now final, with a few minor changes and tweaks from the last picture. Will start the shading and highlighting on them now. When I do that I will focus on just these three figures. First view of the "sport's Warband element. Univ. of Texas, Atlanta Brave, and SMU.. Need lots of work still. The first Shooter element. Flag face, skull face and a character taken form the second Purge movie, Anarchy. Second Shooter element. All variations taken from the various movies, although the last guy was taken from the Indian in the latest remake of The Magnificent Seven, but modified. (FYI - the remake is terrible so stick with the original!!!) Behemoth element, the NFFA troops from the second movie, Anarchy. I know, pretty exciting.....black! Here are a couple of screen shots form the movie so you can see just how exciting they are. Hopefully some highlighting and bits will make hem look a little more interesting. But they are a big part of the story. I know, they're hard to see, so maybe this will give an better idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qv52f3CL70More to follow, Terry
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Post by terry37 on Jun 6, 2019 13:51:08 GMT
I highly recommend that you play this YouTube with volume as background while looking at this picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODqj9Mq39FMAnd now Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages in the center ring we have the Clowns! When I first got into the hobby over 60 years ago I never thought I'd be painting clowns.....but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! These bad boys are all the same figure which I have done a little modification to each for a slightly different look to each one. They are a Rebel Mini zombie figure, but really paint up nicely, and with the weapons added will make a colorful Purge Warband element. Their weapons left to right are a scythe, a hunting knife added to a broom handle and a small hatchet. These are just base coats, but I will do a little shading and highlighting by hand so I can keep he bright colors. More to follow,
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Post by terry37 on May 30, 2019 20:55:41 GMT
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Post by terry37 on May 24, 2019 2:05:18 GMT
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Post by terry37 on May 4, 2019 18:51:19 GMT
Note much conversion work here. These are the Peter Pig 16th century physicians. I only got them so I could have another element with unique costumes. I did convert their staffs into weapons, and will probably give them a dark red robe with a darker red hat and a black mask and beak. I have others near finished and will share an update after I get some painting done. Still proving to be a fun project. Terry
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Post by terry37 on May 4, 2019 18:50:51 GMT
Took a few pics of some of the Purge figures I’ve been working on. Most some form of conversion done to them. Sorry for the two blurry pictures, but they’ll still give you an idea. This first picture is of the Leon Barnes/Sergeant Hero element which required a lot of conversion work to achieve the dress the characters are depicted in. As in the picture posted previously, they are from left to right – Leo, Cali, Eva, Liz and Dwayne. Only thing done to Leo was to add his black bag of weapons over his shoulder. Cali was holding a purse and wearing what looked like a sweater, so I removed the purse, added a pistol, made the sweater into her un-tucked in plaid shirt, and shortened her shoulder length hair. Eva, was also a bit involved. The figure came holding a pistol which I left, but she was also wearing a barn like coat, so I shortened it to have her wearing a zip up hoodie so added the hood in the back. Liz was made from a zombie holding a phone, which I removed, and have her wearing her black dress and leggings, light blue denim jacket. Her left arm was positioned so she would be holding on Dwayne’s right arm, and I added a pistol. Dwayne was another fun conversion, converting his coat to a padded vest and adding a semi-automatic weapon. Each character did carry/use the weapons I have them holding, and I wanted them to all be holding weapons so they wouldn’t be confused with being a Horde since this element has five figures. This is the civilian/Shooter element and represents Carmelo Jones and his Purge Resistance fighters. The figure in the center is Carmelo, made from one of Rebel Minis Post Apocalyptic Raiders. I did a head swap adding a Peter Pig British tanker head wearing a beret, and added a clip to his weapon to make it look more like a semi-automatic. I still have to figure out how to add glasses, but have a thought that I am going to try. On the right is Dante Bishop who appeared as the same character in all of the first three movies. The figure on the left is a hooded resistance fighter who was unnamed in the movie, but is seen during the attack on the hunting party near the end – you get a glimpse of him as the resistance fighters advance with guns a-blazing. This is one of my bad guy elements, or Purgers. I was going to call it the Cheerleaders, but instead of using three of the same cheerleader figure I made the third figure as a baseball player wearing the uniform of the Atlanta Braves. He was a chubby figure that I slimmed down, converted his trousers to baseball pants and socks and made his tee shirt into a baseball uniform top. Made the bat from a piece of a lance (which I always remove and add wire ones). My basic concept for this element was the “Candy Girl” in The Purge Election year. Since the picture I have modified the hair on the cheerleaders, so one has two buns a la the “Candy Girl” and the other is wearing a blonde wig. This was a fun conversion using one of Rebel Minis biker gang figures, which is unchanged. The girl on the back with the shotgun is also a Rebel Mini, removing the pack on her back and the base, then adjusting her legs to let her fit behind the guy on the bike
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Post by terry37 on May 4, 2019 2:43:57 GMT
Been plodding away on this project, and have finished converting, cleaning and sanding, and have ready to prime the first hero element (Leo and company), and the Shooter element (Carmelo Jones and his resistance fighters) for the civilian/survivors army, and for the Purgers I've finished the conversions for the cheerleader and baseball player element, the clowns element, the 16th/17th century physicians and the biker on his hog with his biker honey added to the back. This completes most of the conversion work, as the rest will just be cleaning away molding seams and sanding. Then I'll glue everything to painting sticks, prime them and start the fun!
More to follow,
Terry
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Post by terry37 on Apr 29, 2019 22:09:44 GMT
Although the bad guys are going to be more fun to paint, I decided to start with one of the Hero elements of the survivors - Leo and the four people he helped to save. I was able to find near matching figures in my extra bag of modern civilians and zombies to make these guys from. Of course all but the figure for Leo require some conversion, and only one will need some green stuff added (to make he girl with her plaid shirttail hanging out. I am closing on getting them ready to paint and it shouldn't be much to paint them so hope to have them done shortly. More to follow, Terry
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Post by terry37 on Apr 29, 2019 22:08:25 GMT
HOTT The Purge
I must admit I am a fan of both The Purge movies and The Purge TV series, but fully accept that the concept is truly heinous, and unfathomable. Besides, the concept is to reduce crime and reduce government spending. Truth be told, such a concept would have the reverse effects on both of those. Bad guys will bad guys year-round, not just for one 12-hour period, and those who never have, but think they might find delight or vengeance in killing someone would truly suffer serious PTSD. As far as saving money, the clean up after such a 12-hour period of rampant atrocities would far exceed any expense they think they might save. So, with this disclaimer let’s proceed.
The appeal to me is not the killing, but the opportunity to paint up some really fun and unique figures due to the “Halloween” aspect of the event. Of course, this would only apply to the “Purgers” and not the civilians just trying to survive. If you seen any of the movies or the TV series you will understand what I mean. And why HOTT, when a skirmish type game might be a more adaptable approach – for me it’s simple, I love HOTT and that is primarily what I play. For those who enjoy a skirmish game it could be easily adapted, but I’m not familiar enough with skirmish type rules to recommend any.
Basically, to do The Purge with HOTT I feel a few changes need to be made to make it work more to the theme. The first change will be the layout or battlefield. My approach is that the entire board area is a park, think Central Park in New York as an example. Within the park you can have wooded areas, creeks running through it with bridges, walkways (roads), hills, areas of bad going or other such terrain features that might be appropriate to a park setting. Then around the perimeter buildings with doors indicated. The buildings can be represented by flat pieces of cardboard laid along the board edge and marked off with doors at various locations. This is a cheap easy way to represent them because they don’t really play in the game except as will be described later. So, this is not really a variance from the normal game of HOTT, with the exception of the buildings lining the boarder. I will say that another option could be to inset some buildings say on one board edge so you could have alleys, but I wouldn’t make them too deep.
Now, as for the elements. Only a few seem reasonable to keep to the theme, but even then, I see it necessary to alter the number of figures on the element, again to capture the theme. I think the best element types would be Warband, Shooters, Beasts and Riders for the Purgers, but also maybe a Behemoth or Blade for the government forces who take part, and maybe a Flyer if you wanted to add a government helicopter. For the civilians I see heroes (probably limited to no more than two), maybe a Shooter or two, and numerous Hordes. Now that we’ve identified the element types, I see the suggested number of troops per element be completely ignored. For example, you may have one or two guys or gals on a base of Shooters or Warband, and as another say two or three civilians on a Horde element. In other words, make it like the movies, with a few folks doing bad or trying to survive. They would however, still be based on the standard base sizes for their element type in the rules, and would play exactly as the rules define.
Let’s talk about figures next. I game in 15 MM and have had no trouble coming up with lots of figures to choose from for both sides. There are enough civilian figures to easily do the survivors and a few armed survivors or appropriately armed guys for Heroes. Just as a side note on the subject of Heroes, I plan on two. The first will be Leo Barnes with the five survivors he tried to save, but my other will be my favorite characters from The Walking Dead - Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Judith.
For the Purgers you really have to have no boundaries and have fun. I currently have planned some clowns, some cheerleaders, some basic thugs and gangers, and some guys using modified 17th century plague physicians using the figures from Peter Pig’s ECW range. Most of the figures for here are coming from various zombie figures and just need a weapon of some sort added. I like the Rebel Minis figures best for this as he offers a really good selection, but also am using other makers zombie figures. The main thing when doing these bad guys is to think of some sort of costume or at least a mask or scary face paint.
OK, so now we’ve covered the set up and the figures what would a typical army be. I am thinking as a first blush to have 16-point armies which keeps the park from being too crowded. The basic list being:
Survivors
2 x Hero @ 4 AP 8 pts
4 x Horde @ 1 AP 4 pts
2 x Shooters @ 2 AP 4 pts
Options would be more Hordes and less Shooters.
Purgers
4 x Warband @ 2 AP 8 Pts
2 x Shooter @ 2 AP 4 pts
1 x Rider @ 2 AP 2 pts
1 x Beast @ 2 AP 2 pts
Options can be any of the elements listed above.
No Stronghold for either side.
OK, why no Stronghold? Because the objective is to get the survivors to a Safe House, and the Purgers try to destroy the Survivors before they can get there. Yeah, seems easy enough doesn’t it! Weeeell, not exactly, because before you deploy troops a set of random markers or cards are placed under each building face down. Only one of the markers says “Door Unlocked” all of the others say Door Locked” This means the survivors have to find the one door that is unlocked and get as many as possible in that building.
Standard set up is used with the survivors always being the Defenders. The game winner is determined by the following. The survivors win if they can get more than eight points to the safe house. The Purgers win if they destroy eight or more of the survivors. One point to clarify. The survivors must stop at a door into a building and may enter on their next move. This represents them trying the door to see if it is locked. Only the survivors may see the marker stating if the door is locked or unlocked.
I am now in the process of cleaning and starting to paint up the figures and hope to be giving it a go soon. In the meantime, I welcome any and all questions, suggestions, or knock-offs.
Terry
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Post by terry37 on Apr 29, 2019 22:07:00 GMT
Very nice looking Desert Column!!!!
Terry
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Post by terry37 on Apr 29, 2019 22:05:44 GMT
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Post by terry37 on Mar 16, 2019 20:53:25 GMT
I am very pleased, and excited, to announce the newest Leg of the annual Good, Bad and Ugly International HOTT Tournament. It is the Paris Leg, coordinated by Claude Chenuil. This brings us up to 13 legs in five countries.
Welcome Claude and the Paris Leg gamers!
This tournament is held on various dates in the fall, usually running in October and November and is probably in its 16th year now, and 7th year for being international.
Anyone interested in running a leg or just joining in playing let me know and we’ll let you know the requirements or the Leg nearest you.
The theme this year developed by Mike McEwan of the Shetlands and Euan Caldwell of Glasgow is “Old School”.
Old School - A chance to build an army with the figures you loved as a teenager!
Dig out and dust of those long forgotten Minifigs painted Gloss!
Give 20mm plastics some love!
Or build an army from your favourite teenage Scifi or fantasy series!
Or even just build an army from the original rules!
Or, some are interpreting it – “back to basics” i.e. orcs and wizards and men and hobbits, etc. a la Tolkien as an example (but not restricted to Tolkien).
Terry
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