From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:48:58 +0200
Subject: [OT]Hordes of the Things
Hello Everybody Off-topic, but some might be interested. The new version of 'Hordes of the Things' (Fantasy DBA) is now finished and available from Keep Wargaming (and soon, presumably, from other traders). Rumor has it that it's now the most readable ruleset of the DBx family - which is not that much to boast about, I guess. Greetings Karl Heinz
From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@e...>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:11:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [OT]Hordes of the Things
That's good news. The original edition was a bit clunky, as they added a lot of stuff on top of DBA, without yet making the structural changes they made in DBM. 15mm fantasy is calling again. And compared to 7th Edition Ancients even 1st ed. DBA was a masterpiece of English prose. I think we went over 7th ed a few months back. > K.H.Ranitzsch wrote: > Hello Everybody
From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:22:45 +0200
Subject: Re: [OT]Hordes of the Things
> That's good news. The original edition was a bit clunky, as they added For large-scale (ie., non-skirmish) fantasy battles, I much prefer Chipco's "Fantasy Rules! 2" to HotT. Handles battles from DBA/HotT size (up to half a dozen or so units per side) all the way up to large DBM/DBF-sized battles with 80+ units, and FR!2's way of handling heroic characters and magic is *much* better than HotT's. As for "De Bellis Fantasticus/Here There Be Dragons" (Keep's fantasy add-on module for DBM), well... I haven't read the updated edition, but unless it gets numerous positively glowing reviews from people who own the first edition I'm not going to buy it :-/ Later,