HOTT - Undead Horde

While I was working on my DBA Early Imperial Romans I also started work on any army for Hordes of the Things, a spin-off from DBA geared more towards fantasy or science fiction armies.  For the upcoming club game we are using G. Branco’s New Army Lists.  These lists are geared towards giving a greater theme to what is a very generic game relative to it’s ancestors.  The list I am using:

UNDEAD

nor dead nor alive, led by a powerful wizard. Reward may be eternal rest.

Mandatory Units: 1x Magician; 3x Hordes.
Maximum Units: 1x Magician; 2x Knights; 12x Hordes.
Unavailable Units: Airboat; Cleric; Dragon (brittle undead dragons are behemoths); God; Hero; Paladin.

There is still a lot of room for flexibility in this army so I decided to pick up a variety of units.  Although HOTT doesn’t make the same distinctions as DBA ( 3Bw vs. 4Bw ) I’ll be describing the units using the more specific terminology.

1x Magician - Lich Lord
I’ve used a 28mm model for the Lich Lord.  I’m not sure exactly what the figure was, I think an Efreet.  Unfortunately I tossed out the packaging before writing this article.  I think any wizard-like figure will do for this army.

6x 5Hd - Skeletal Horde
The rest of my figures are from Black Raven Foundry and purchased from Old Glory 15s. At 1pt each and room for 12 in the army list I could have painted a lot more, but I decided 6 was enough.  I prefer a bit more variety in my army.

2x 2Kn - Skeletal Knights
I built the maximum number of Knights the army list would allow.

1x 4Cb , 2x 4Bw - Skeletal Archers
HOTT does not make the distinction (as previously mentioned) between Crossbows and Bows, but the figures I purchased came with both so why not use them.  I prefer to have the same pose on an entire stand to show well ordered units.

4x 4Sp - Skeletal Spear
Here I differed a little, showing each unit of spear with a “Captain”.  I did this because I didn’t think the standing spear figure looked similar enough to the others (The spear has teeth).  Plus I didn’t have 4 of each of the other kind so would have to have done 4x 3Sp, which isn’t a HOTT troop type.

2x 2Sn - Wraiths
Wraiths as sneakers, good for attacking the opponents key units (General or Stronghold).

2x 3Wb - Ghouls
Included to give some more non-skeletons to the army as well as some flexibility to unit types.

Undead Horde
The full Horde laid out with the “stronghold”, which in this case is just a graveyard.  So far Strongholds have not been my forte, with several aborted attempts to come up with something better, this is the fall-back.

Hordes of the Things Rulebook (PDF)