"A VSF Prussian hero ... HotT related" Topic
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| rsutton | 07 Nov 2025 12:51 p.m. PST |
Have just added a hero base and a magician base t the growing Prussian VSF army. I like the hero base, but the magician base has me a little puzzled link Nā
Robin |
Eumelus  | 07 Nov 2025 1:39 p.m. PST |
From a HotT standpoint, I can easily see the General Staff as a sort of "magician" element – whose attributes are a formidable foot element that can move a long distance at a bound but only at an increased logistics cost (2 PiPs to move), i.e. moving by carriage or motorcar; and long-range attack that doesn't need LOS, i.e. indirect artillery based on aerial recon reports. So for modelling purposes, I would put two of those greatcoated generals around a map table, with the staff officer with the binos at the front of the stand. The surrendering figures could be shown recoiling from a shell crater and used as a "frog" marker for when the "magician" throws a second 1 (i.e. the enemy have used radio-direction analysis to locate the HQ and have pasted it with indirect fire of their own). In HotT a hero is archetypically a mounted figure with very fast movement and so daring that he can somehow manage to find a way to engage even enemy aerial elements, plus close-combat ability almost at the top end of the scale. The Kaiser, or similar august personage, doesn't really fit the mold to my mind (although come to think of it he might do nicely as a Stronghold). A Prussian VSF hero would be well represented as a dashing officer in the uniform of the Death's Head hussars, on a white horse. I think the Airfix Waterloo British hussars, with their fur busbies, would be a close-enough figure match. |
| Eumelus | 07 Nov 2025 2:48 p.m. PST |
It also occurs to me that if you're looking for another 4pt element, doesn't the Airfix WW1 German set come with a couple of flamethrower men? Put those in the basket of a dirigible to make a "dragon". In HotT terms, it can't group with or receive friendly overlap support because even its friends can't be induced to get too close to the volatile infernal devices, and the propensity to flee the battlefield could be read as the flamethrower crews bolting for the rear as soon as they've exhausted their fuel canisters… |
| rsutton | 07 Nov 2025 2:51 p.m. PST |
One of the many things I love about HotT is how each of us can see things so differently… absolutely awesome. I love the Hussar and Dragon ideas..
Nā
Robin |
| 79thPA | 07 Nov 2025 7:16 p.m. PST |
For the magician, my thought was some kind of doctor or scientist and a crystal obelisk or something like rhat. I am enjoying your project. |
| rsutton | 07 Nov 2025 8:27 p.m. PST |
This is my British VSF 'magician' .. right out of the 'mad scientist' play book link Nā
Robin |
| Grelber | 07 Nov 2025 9:02 p.m. PST |
If the "Hero" needs to be a mounted figure, prior to the accession of Helmut von Moltke the younger to be chief of the general staff, the annual wargames ended with the Kaiser leading a mounted charge of his cavalry regiments. Of course, the Airfix WWI German set does not come with a mounted figure, so you would be forced to use the top part of a German figure (perhaps the officer) and join it to the bottom part of a mounted figure (perhaps a Napoleonic French Cuirassier, who has long cavalry boots). Grelber |
| rsutton | 07 Nov 2025 9:05 p.m. PST |
The 'hero' figure doesn't 'need' to be modelled as mounted, but is always counted as mounted because (there's always a horse nearby' LOL
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