tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post2346091410406178124..comments2024-03-19T16:55:34.065+08:00Comments on One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse: DBA vs HotTSun of Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-68174432894339963292013-10-07T15:01:33.378+08:002013-10-07T15:01:33.378+08:00This is the HotT blogspot which is also known as T...This is the HotT blogspot which is also known as The Stroghold Rebuilt: http://hordesofthethings.blogspot.com.au/<br /><br />And the Yahoo group can be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HOTT/info<br /><br />Again, thanks for bringing these to my attention, especially the group which I wasn't aware of.Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-19394240008130781712013-10-07T09:13:42.913+08:002013-10-07T09:13:42.913+08:00Well said, WRG Ancients 7th Edition were my major ...Well said, WRG Ancients 7th Edition were my major wargamming rules for a good number of years, included assisting running competitions, and the challenging writing style was maintained with DBA. I could never get into DBM and I am happy with FOG which to me seems to be a proper evolution from what I enjoyed about WRG 7th.<br /><br />However the appeal of fighting a 12 element battle in an how remains - and I have had some real fun DBA games in the past, both as competitions, campaign and friendly games.<br /><br />Getting to play HotT is at present merely an aspiration.Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-55079248931639637562013-10-07T09:08:20.388+08:002013-10-07T09:08:20.388+08:00Thanks for this. I hadn't seen the blogspot o...Thanks for this. I hadn't seen the blogspot or the HotT group, but now will. I know what you mean about it being dire in Yahoo groups at the moment.Sun of Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07315805432481558574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-62665390606823051382013-10-07T05:26:10.133+08:002013-10-07T05:26:10.133+08:00If there is a desire to 'synchronise' HotT...If there is a desire to 'synchronise' HotT and DBA, why not just have the one set of rules, with perhaps a small supplement concerning 'Historical Ancients (DBA)' vs 'Other ' armies? Perhaps the reason for the divergence is to create two different types of games, and, of course, to obviate duplication.<br /><br />As for the opaque language in which the rules are expressed (or perhaps I should say 'impressed' (in the sense of squeezed in) - methinks a certain false economy is at play here. How many of us have walked away from DB# on account of differences in interpreting what is written, over-frequent and ill-considered emendments, and changes in the authors' perception of history aggravating them both - the whole expressed in a language so compacted that no one can be certain of the meaning.<br /><br />'To keep down printing costs.' Never mind the cost to the buyer in years of frustration and annoyance. The end result is not what you would appealing, neither. A little expansion in expression - sacrificing concision for clarity - would indeed increase printing costs, but suppose it increased sales as well owing to the broadened appeal of an easily understood and absorbed rule set? You might even be able to absorb narrower margins as a result.<br /><br />It has been nigh 10 years since I played DBM; not much less since DBR (when I discovered after a gap of about 5 years no progress had been made on an underdeveloped rule set). I'm tempted by HotT only because of the imaginative armies (garden gnomes, spiders, dinosaurs, US Vietnam War, steam punk... excellent! I was considering Baron Richtofen's Flying Circus for a while...) but whether I will ever do anything about it is still moot. <br /><br />I probably still have better things to do.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430244424351512966.post-32372061118843373562013-10-07T02:14:08.106+08:002013-10-07T02:14:08.106+08:00I should mention that HoTTs was being revised by a...I should mention that HoTTs was being revised by a Yahoo group run by Alan Saunders (Hordesofthethingss.blogspot.com) and the late Jeff Bolton before someone showed RBS what was being done and he decided to get involved and make it official. The original intent was to develop an agreed upon (as much as possible) interpretation of the 1st edition rules' gray areas. See the defunct "hottrevision" group on yahoo groups (if you dare, it's pretty dire there in yahoo groups).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com