HOTT Summer Campaign 2012 Report

[Tim in Saskatoon]

This weekend I ran another HOTT Campaign. Full reports of the ensuing shenanigans can be found on my blog:

Pre-Campaign Big Battle
Campaign Year One
Campaign Year Two
Campaign Year Three
Campaign Year Four

Here's a few teaser pictures of what went down...


The Big Battle on Friday night to kick things off and try out armies


Initial dispositions on the campaign map: Spring, Year One.


A confused brawl between furries - Ratlings versus Centaurs.


The biggest nail-bitter of the campaign: the against-the-odds defence of Logit (Year Three)

[Ammianus]

Far out! (as we used to say in the 60s)

[MattLloyd]

Hi Tim,

I'm curious as to how easy it is to run a campaign for HOTT and whether you use the rules in the back of the rulebook for the campaign.

I've toyed with running a campaign but I've never played a HOTT campaign (or DBA) using the rulebook method but I find the text very hard to follow.

Is there an easy to read version of the campaign rules, or do you use another system.

It looks like fun.

from Matt

[Tim in Saskatoon]

WE mostly use the rules as printed in the book, with a few changes... The biggest one is that we use a simultaneous move system - where everyone writes down their moves for the season and reveals them simultaneously.

There are a few other tweaks and clarifications that have grow out of running a few campaigns to deal with loop-holes and gamey-shenanigans that the rules-lawyers always seem to come up with to try and break the system...

I think somewhere on my blog I have some or most of these posted. When I get a chance I'll have a snoop and see if I can find them and post a link...

[wargamer1972]

Very cool. The centaurs are awesome. Like the balloon aerial too.