Fantasyfreak's Ogres - Pics of commissioned Mournfang and Golgfag 14/12/11

[Fantasyfreak]

It'd be good to see your army, anything scratch built in it like the Beasts?

[Fantasyfreak]

Ok, so being as the Woodies aren't finished, I'll be taking these boys to AGoM3 on saturday!

Going for a Butcherless, double Hunter, 24 Trapper affair 

Should be fun if nothing else 

[Wildcard]

can we see a list??

[Fantasyfreak]

Ask and you shall recieve 


Grut's Big Bellied Bashers




Characters

Grut the Beastklling Facesmasher
Ogre Bruiser, Great Weapon, Heavy Armour, 2 Sword Gnoblars, Greyback Pelt, "Beastkiller"


Bindi the Tusktaker
Ogre Hunter, 2 Sabretusks, Seigebreaker, Wyrdstone Necklace 


Samu the Stegeater
Ogre Hunter, 2 Sabretusks, Tenderiser


Core

3 Bulls
Ironfists, Bellower


3 Bulls
Ironfists, Bellower 


4 Ironguts
Standard, Warbanner, Look-out Gnoblar 


8 Gnoblar Trappers

8 Gnoblar Trappers

8 Gnoblar Trappers


Rare

Slavegiant




Total points cost
1499

[StoneDog]

Certainly looks like it'll be a very different list... looking forward to see how it does

[Scroth Scullrippa]

Care to explain some of the choice's? Ironfiists for example seem odd. Would theifstones on the bruiser be a good idea? What are you going to do with the SG

[Fantasyfreak]

Well that's the first day of AGoM over, very enjoyable too!

Met and played the Strongholds very own "Chugger" , also had a word with Corai.

My results so far are, 1/1/1 , not so bad really methinks, especially with a weird list and absolutely no practice with it 
Played Daemons, VC and Ogres.

Tomorrow will probably bomb though 

Will let you know the thinking behind the list tommorrow SS.

[Wildcard]

glad your first day was good fun!   I'm really missing it

can I take a guess at

win = vampires
draw = ogres
loss = daemons

or am I off a bit??

[Fantasyfreak]

Spot on WC, spot on 

[Fantasyfreak]

Tournament was pretty good, I finished very badly, losing all of my games on day 2.

Here's a quick run down of my games;

1. Ogres
This was against Chugger, imagine our shock when out of 3 Ogre armies in the tournament, we're drawn against each other.
Good game, he was rocking the Mawseeker D'star.
I played pretty cagey with a lot of fleeing, it was very close all the way through, could have gone either way I guess.
Highlights where my Hunters putting a wound on a Mawseeker BSB and 2 wounds on a Bruiser with their Crossbows.
DRAW

2.Daemons
Fun. 
Yep, a bit of flickering fire and flamer shots later and I don't have much left.
Highlight of the game for me was my sword Gnob putting a wound on a Nurgle herald 
Wasn't the most fun opponent in the world, pissed me off a little actually.
Massacre against.

3.Vampires
I killed the General and that was the end of that 
Very nice opponent and enjoyable.
Massacre

4.Dark Elves
Major shooty, magic , avoidence list with Hydra
The guy played so slow that we went over our time by nearly 10 mins and only finished turn 4, my turns where taking less than 5mins, his 20mins+. (my friend played him also and only got to turn 3!)
Very annoying really.
Not much I could do here, Ogres don't like massed shooting or Hydras.
I managed to get the Hydra down to half wounds with a Hunter Crossbow and killed the Pendant BSB which felt like a moral victory over everything that is evil.
Solid loss

5. Dark Elves
Like the last list but a little nicer with a unit of Cold ones and one less Shade unit for RXB's
Very nice opponent but little I could do to overcome the shootyness and magic
Massacre against

6. Vampires
Same guy I played earlier.
This time he played a bit better and we traded blows.
I Just charged and challenged the General with my General, he had ASF and 4 Attacks but needed 4's to wound, I was confident I could survive and then smash him into paste FTW, unfortunately my Giant was in the same combat, 4 Ghouls got 3 poisoned attacks against the Giant to kill him..............then guess where he fell?
Straight on my general to inflict 2 wounds and let the Vamp finish him off 
Never mind, it was a good game and he was a nice guy.
Massacre against.


Although I had 2 games that where pretty crappy I still enjoyed the tournament, it was very well run.

I couldn't believe the army that Corai put out, it took him 1 (YES ONE!!) week to paint and looked very nice, he went on to win best army with some very strong competition!

Nice tourney, had a bit of fun with the Ogres, but just can't compete with Daemons and DE's.
Looking forward to the new book and getting my WE's ready for the mean time 

[Randroid]

Sorry to hear about the losses ... always a bummer at a tourney like that.

What did Corai bring and why haven't we seen pics here on the Stronghold!?

[Fantasyfreak]

Sorry to hear about the losses ... always a bummer at a tourney like that.

Cheers for the comiserations   

What did Corai bring and why haven't we seen pics here on the Stronghold!?

Exactly, why haven't we?! lol

It was a very small but nice DoC army, I'll let you guess which god it was themed around

[CaNNiBaLLZ]

Sorry to hear about the losses ... always a bummer at a tourney like that.

Cheers for the comiserations   

What did Corai bring and why haven't we seen pics here on the Stronghold!?

Exactly, why haven't we?! lol

It was a very small but nice DoC army, I'll let you guess which god it was themed around

Tzeentch?

[Corai]

What did Corai bring and why haven't we seen pics here on the Stronghold!?

Exactly, why haven't we?! lol

I'll get some pics of my compact novelty filth fest up tomorrow

Glad you enjoyed the event FF did you get youe ticket for the next one?

Thanks
Corai

[Fantasyfreak]

Yep pics would be cool 

Can't make the next one mate, Saturdays are hard for me to get off from work (had to pull a sickie for this one) 

Maybe AGoM5 will be a possibility 

[Wildcard]

1 week and he wins best painted?!?!?!?  (sighs in disgust and thows down paint brush)

pity about the couple of poor games - I think I might have played agaisnt that daemon player of yours in the campaign weekend...sounds familiar.

bad luck with that giant in the end - shame it didn't land on the vamp...

[Fantasyfreak]

1 week and he wins best painted?!?!?!?  (sighs in disgust and thows down paint brush)

pity about the couple of poor games - I think I might have played agaisnt that daemon player of yours in the campaign weekend...sounds familiar.

bad luck with that giant in the end - shame it didn't land on the vamp...

Yep, unreal isn't it?
Corai is a machine

Both of the bad(ish) games weren't the worst I've played, not enough to make me tick "auful game" although I did think about it game 2
The Daemon one was the worst, the other guy was ok really, just really slow.

Yes, I could see the Giant landing on my Bruiser before it happened, but them kind of things are what make the game fun sometimes, I thought the game was pretty much over, then one unrelated incident later and I'm on the back foot
Shouldn't have worn blinkers really

[chugger]

Great to see you there FF, closest game i've had in a while.

I was lucky i guess, all my opponets were very cool, including that VC player. 

Corai got my vote, just for that small dragon (flamer) chasing the peasant, best thing i saw all weekend by far.  Had no idea about the 1 week thing though, thats incredible...

[Fantasyfreak]

Nothing really new to see here.......just went to a tourney last weekend and finished 15th!

I wrote a brief review of the games in the Tales of Conquest forum, so thought I'd just copy and paste them here;


Yep I finished 15th 
Highest Ogre player out the lot of us, and highest member of our club!
I was quite pleased and suprised 


First game I got VC's, a pretty hard one with most of the toys and 3 Vamps.
Deciding moments were on one flank, I set up a unit to take a charge from the Wrath's with 2 units and Bruiser to counter charge (numbers, Warbanner, flank, tenderiser), he wiped out the unit and everything panicked, the WB unit got run down in the aftermath too 

The other flank was held by Yhettes, looking menacingly at a sprit host and threatening to come through a wood to flank his blocks, he charged with a vamp that had Lynci's, I fled thinking it was a good idea to leave to the Vamp on his own in view of my charges but the now unthreatened Sprit host was free to move into a good postion to help.
Silly really.

I was outplayed by a better player with a better army and got massacred.

Next up I faced Ogres!

This was a funny old game, I worked my ass off,  fleeing and countercharging, because combats where effectively decided on who made the best dice rolls, I bombed a bit.
Worst moments where;

Bruiser with Tenderiser and a unit of 3 Guts charging a unit of 4 Guts with a banner;
I scored 3 wounds   when I was imagining wiping at out a couple of Ogres (Big T tends to help a bit usually), he wiped out an Ogre and scored another wound, in return and my unit fled 3" 
and got ran down.

A unit of Bulls charge a unit of guts in the flank, 9 attacks later they fail to wipe out 1 Ogre, only scoring 1 wound, in return they get battered a bit and ran down.

Despite all this I managed to get most of his big boys, all his characters too, making it a minor win, 40 points from a major.
Really had to work for it though.


Next up was Vamps again, this time was a massive horde with 3 Vamps, 2 corpse carts, a big unit of Wraths with Banshee, and the Crown.
I made a mess, stars of the show were probably maneaters with their 15 attacks 
I charged most units front and side
I put the bruiser with Big T in the Wraths, with a unit of Bulls for outnumber when I killed a few, wiped them in 2 rounds.
Major win.


I really enjoyed this tourney, had 3 great games against 3 great people, which is the main thing.
Finishing as high as I did was a bonus.

Well done to WC for taking best painted!

[Fantasyfreak]

Here we are again, the thread will never die 

I've not really played much recently with the Ogres, last tourney with them was the one outlined above.
The most memorable game I played in the last few months was horrendous.
It was 4k in which I took Skrag plus 2 Butchers.
First turn of the game, Hellcannon misfires.
At the end of that Misfire I had one Butcher left on a wound and another who'd took one or two but could no longer cast spells 
It went downhill from there. 

In other news, this Gnoblog got made a 'Legendary Gnoblog'! 
Plus the army was featured in The Bellower!

So good times for the Gnoblog 

Even better times are 8th Ed!
Us Ogres get a great boost, it's gonna be great testing the Ogres out to see what's what.
Me and Wildcard were both going to be playing a game last Monday, not with each other, but on the same day at our club, what was funny was that we both pretty much wrote the same list 
His seems to be evolving slightly differently to mine now though which is good as it gives a chance to share experiences with different things.

So what is next for the Gnoblog apart from some half-arsed battle reps and musings on 8th?
Well, I'll be defo looking at starting a new Ogre army, but I'm thinking of holding off until our new book is out.
I think with the new Ogre artwork in the 8th BRB, it's not a million miles away, so will wait on painting a new army and get inspired by the new models, fluff and of course list first.

I'm playing another game of 8th tommorrow, so will give a little bat rep of what went on here.

Adios.

[Fantasyfreak]

So I played my second game of 8th this evening, with my Ogres!

My list was;

Tyrant
Greatskull
Greyback pelt
Wyrdstone
Cathayan Longsword

BSB
Sword of strife
Charmed shield

Butcher
Dispell scroll
Sword of might
Potion of Foolhardiness


8 Bulls
Stnd
Bellower

7 Bulls
Bellower

6 Ironguts
Stnd
Bellower
Runemaw

25 Gnoblars
Groinbiter

25 Gnoblars
Groinbiter

8 Trappers

Scraplauncher

Scraplauncher

2 Leadbelchers

Gorger

Gorger

Slavegiant

2500 in total.


My friend had

20 Chaos warriors
20 Marauders w/wulrik
3x5 Knights w/MoK
2x sorcerers w/MoK
6 Trolls
Throg
10 hounds
Hellcannon


Highlights were;

Fighting throgg's unit with ogres that were trollgutted, and running them down

Charging knights with a SG, take 5 wounds, jump up &down and kill them all 

Getting irresistable with a butcher twice but not dying.

Taking a charge from khorne knights with my bulls, taking a lot of wounds then wiping them out

Scrappies, 1 sent a hatchet into the Rhinox's balls which ran into a bull unit
The other killed 7 Warriors, 4 with KB!
Then it shot at some knights and scattered 10" onto the centre of the marauders and killed 10!
It also helped defeat Throgg's unit in combat 


In the end it was a draw, I had 97 more points than him! 

Scrappies were great, as were the big bull blocks.
Tyrant seemed effective, BSB was awesome and the Butcher had things in hand.
Although it was hard remembering everything (I didn't a lot of times) I'm very impressed with this Ed in the two games I've played.
I still think the game can be tactical, plus it feels like more fun.

On to the next game ASAP!

[Wildcard]

thanks for the quick report FF, the BSB build sounds interesting, how'd it work out??

[Fantasyfreak]

T'was nice, 6 attacks on the BSB @S5 isn't something to be sniffed at, most of those got regen'd by Throgg's trolls, but hey ho 
Shield was good, getting rid of a hit was nice.

I'm quite impressed with some of these 5 point MI's you can almost add on as an afterthought, most being worth 5 points at least.

[Fantasyfreak]

I played another game last night using the same 2.5k list above, this time against Dwarves.

Came up with a loss this time, although it did seem close.

The terrain rules played quite a big part in this one, my opponent placed a big building, a couple of walls and a big hill in his deployment zone, so a unit of 12 crossbows went in the house, 10 thunderers went behind the walls, along with a large unit of longbeards W/ BSB (25)

It was all looking pretty good until my opponent had a decent round of shooting, the turn before I charged, it thinned my Ogre units down quite a bit.
Then came the money shot where he messed up my charge by making a unit charge across another by using a magic item, it meant my big unit of bulls w/tyrant going into the longbeards instead of ironbreakers, which prevented my bsb's unit from charging.
Quite a clever move.

It meant that my BSB's unit got charged by the longbeards with characters in, lost combat, fled, and the bsb died by making his last stand.

Magic was a no-go, I didn't manage to get a spell off as he had a Runelord which was steeling one of my power dice.

The Scrappies were awesome, not misfiring throughout the game and killing quite a lot of Dwarves into the bargain.
I found it best making them hang back so they didn't have to autocharge, letting them shoot for longer and charge when they wanted.
I knew they'd be good, but they are surpassing my expectations so far 

Another thing that was awesome was the Slavegiant, Thunderstomp gives him a massive boost that was needed and makes him very viable now.

Gorgers were textbook, taking out a stonethrower, engineer and then one helped kill a few thunderers.

Good game in all, still getting to grips with the rules but remembering a lot more now.

Onto the next game tonight!
Not sure if I should use my Ogres or test out the Woodies though.

[Wildcard]

It certainly looked a very close game FF!  That master rune of challenge was a pain for me too to other week - I was fortunate enough to fail the charge and not mess up anyone else though.

one thing: scrappies don't have to auto-charge, if they don't declare a charge they have to take a leadership test (and general's leadership and BSB re-rolls count) - if they fail the test they charge.  I've not been shy about moving them up myself.

have you tried any indirect fire with them yet?