HotT 48 AP battle with 28 mm. minis.

As we did not fancy anything very complex to play (we're getting old) we decided for a game ofHordes of the Things. So my buddy dusted off his two 48 AP armies and we quickly readiedthem for a battle.

I took an army of Rohan from LOTR and my buddy a Goblin army from GW. My army consisted of 1 Kn (Gn), 1 Kn, 6 Riders, 4 Wb, 4 Shooters, 4 Sp with a Sub general in it, 1 Hero and 1 Magician. The Goblin army contained 3 Behemoths, 1 Kn (Gn), 2 Beasts, 4 Shooters, 3 Riders (one of them sub general), 4 lurkers and 12 Hordes.
Below you can see the armies arrayed and already moving towards each other.
I got a lot of PIPs at the beginning and could go through the forest in no time, as my opponent unwisely chose not to use his Lurkers to stop me there. On the left flank I run with five Riders whereas on the left flank there were the Knights with the general, one Rider, the Hero and the Magician; on the center all the infantry with two shooters on each flank.
My opponent moved all his hordes between the two rough hills to protect both flanks, tried unsuccesfully to deploy his shooters on the bigger hill, and advanced with his general and the three Behemoths on my right flank.

The first melee in the battle was with my Hero against a Behemoth who retreated and stomped his general! (the one in chariot with wolves). As this was the first contact and we did not like to start a game again, we simply swapped places with the general and other unit and kept with the battle.
After that, a fierce fight for the hill ensued between the two generals, mine with knights and Hero and his with Behemoths. I had a slight advantage for being on higher terrain but my knights followed and lose such benefit, being subsequently crushed, and then the Hero and the Rider forced to retreat.
On the left flank I squeezed three units of Riders to disorganize the solid block of Hordes, while the center kept slowly advancing forward.
My three Riders on the left were surrounded and effortlessly eliminated, and my Hero barely held against the Behemoths while the Magician did nothing (actually he did nothing during all thegame due to the lack of PIPs). My infantry on the center finally clashed and started to massacre Hordes of Goblins.
The Goblin general and his Behemoths kept pressing and killed my Hero and then my Magician. All the Hordes killed were quickly redeployed again into the battlefield. I had already lost my general and now my main army, and the infantry was unable to do something effective, so we decided to finish the game in that moment with a major victory for the Goblins.
48 APs armies with 25/28 mm. figures look really impressive on the table, especially for me, used to 10 mm.

Hordes of the Things in 10 mm.

This evening we decided to use my Warmaster miniatures to play HotT. Cavalry in Warmaster is 20x40 mm. so I put two Warmaster cavalry bases onto a 40x40 mm. base to represent one cavalry unit in HotT. To keep it all homogeneous, I put all infantry and flyers on 40x20 mm bases, and all mount, behemoths, gods, heroes and magicians on 40x40 mm. bases.
We could play without any problem and actually we had a lot of fun.

The first game was Orcs vs. Goblins!
The Orc army: 1 Hero, 1 Wb Gn, 5 Wb, 1 Kn and 1 God.
The Goblin army: 2 Magicians, 1 Hd Gn, 7 Hd, 2 Raiders, 1 Behemoth.

In the second turn the God of the Orcs appeared and charged a unit of scared goblin wolf riders (raiders) but couldn't kill it and at the next turn I rolled a one and the God disappeared as he came.

A 28 mm. River troll as God.

The Orcs enraged at the sight of his vanished god and charged madly out of the forest. The goblins also encouraged by the vision of the God disappearing, foolishly charge down the hill.

The Orc Warbands killed all the Goblin Hordes, and the Orc hero killed first one Goblin Shaman and then the giant. Game over and victory for the Orcs.
The second match was a Chaos army vs. a Pendraken Amazon army.
Chaos army: 1 Hero, 1 Magician, 1 Kn Gn, 1 Kn, 1 Beasts, 1 Bd, 2 Wb, 2 Flyers.
Amazon army: 1 Hero Gn, 1 Magician, 6 Wb, 2 Shooters.

The Pendraken Amazon army

I quickly moved my Beasts unit to the hill in the centre and there it held for several turns the six Amazon Warbands while my two units of Knights flanked and headed to the undefended Amazon Stronghold. But before they assaulted the Stronghold, the Amazon Hero(ine) General entered in a wood to attack my warbands and there was slain surrounded by my warbands and flyers. Game over and victory for Chaos.
The third battle was Chaos vs. Orcs, but regretfully we run out of time and we had to quit on turn 3.