During the summer 2014, the HADES collaboration had the opportunity to measure pion collisions with different nuclei. These measurements were done with two objectives. The first being the investigations of hadrons with strange quarks and their behaviour at normal nuclear density. The analysis of this will concentrate specifically on φ meson and Λ baryon production. The focus on properties of baryonic resonances in the region of N(1520) and N(1535) formed the second objective. Special emphasis is put on beam line detectors which use different particle detection techniques. In particular, the scintillator based Hodoscope and diamond based Start detector will be discussed. There is also presented the analysis of π + p elastic scattering which is important for normalisation of the cross section of the reactions of interest. The measured elastic scattering yields are compared with dedicated simulations and previously published data. 1