Tiny-Tim wrote:
Bit late in the day for me, but I might consider next year.
Is it expensive to get an army?
Yes, sorry. I post on the sites I use regularly and forgot this one, plus I've become complacent now we've been running 12 years and most of the regular attendees know it's always the 1st weekend in September.
Expensive? Not really but of course it's relative to what figures you buy. As mentioned HOTT is quite generic in its classification of troop types, flavour comes from the army that you paint and your terrain. Armies are 24 points each, stands of troops can be valued at 1,2,3,4 or 6 points, higher the value better the troops...but see below. Stands can hold from 2 to 6 figures subject to scale and troop type. so you'd be looking at £10 to £15 for a 15mm army, £25+ for a 28mm army subject to source of the figures.
Many people just re-use ancient or medieval armies and but the odd character figure to represent more important personalities.
Because it's generic you don't have to have fantays figures but can use what ever you like, just fit your troops into the classifications. As also mentioned this can lead to seemingly bizarre match-ups of bows vs bolters but thar's also part of the appeal for some as it provides for many laughs at the incongruity of situations... a Baywatch army with David Hasselhof being attacked by hordes of zombies; Fu Man Chu and his henchmen take on Imperial Guard in Pith helmets and redcoats etc...
There have indeed been numerous armies made of food, dried pasta, cheese... one even where the stands were eaten once removed from the table!!
Ultimately it's a fun well balance game with a paper/scissors/rock style combat so even powerfull troops have an achilles heal. And there is a pdf copy on the internet made available by the authors, althoug it is minus the lists, possibly for legal reasons. But then they are just sample lists and you may do as you please.
HOTT V2.0 rules:
http://www.wrg.me.uk/WRG.net/History/HO ... =HOTT2.pdf