(War)Hammer Time -Fantasy: Ogres have layers…of paint that needs stripping

by | Apr 14, 2014

Greetings all!

As Dragon's Claw pointed out last post, I'm sorta not-really-on-hiatus-but-sorta-as-most-hobby-stuff-is-packed-away...

Anyhow, some plastic Ogres arrived via post today as well as a metal chaos ogre mutant..cuz I'm gonna have a unit of great weapon wielding chaos ogres as I may or may not be raiding yo' empire soon. Blood for the blood god and all that jazz. Chaos is begin to grow.


Here the ugly mugs are, in their "Single colour over bare plastic" paint scheme
There's a reason these guys were cheap. Win for me, as a little Dettol bath and they'll be ready to rape and pillage conduct gene flow and redistribute wealth across many a tabletop in the foreseeable future. Being I2, great weapons suit chaos ogres immensely. Sure, they can have 2 hand weapons for 4 attacks a  piece, but something about S6 really....*grins evilly* Not to mention these guys will need some heavy armour- easily taken care of mostly by marauder shoulder pads for gauntlets. 

As you can see in the above image, in order for me to use them with great weapons, I'm gonna need to plasticard some lengths for their swords, clubs and maces. Will throw up a tutorial when I get round to it as 6 ogres and a bit of plasticard > 4 ogres with great weapons. That's if you're wanting to make a single unit of chaos ogres with great weapons.

Not sure what they'll be marked as, if they will be marked as I plan to run a chaos undivided WoC army. Probs not the mark of slaanesh on the ogres as Slaaneshi ogres? Ew....Baron Harkonnen *Shudder* (Been reading some Dune lately- is good)

As for command, I'll just have the ogre mutant, with no musician and standard:
Something about plastic dudes with metal command reeks of GW's former awesome
Two heads are better than one, amirite?
Even though 6 ogres with mutant and great weapons runs just over 250 points, a T4/W3/ 5+ fear causing monstrous infantry unit that can dish out 19 S6 attacks is nothing to sniff at. Sure they'll be I1, but they were I2 to begin with so no loss there. Oh and ogre charge :D 

Added to an army with normal WoC, they'll be scary. That's another thing, since normal WoC are I5, heavy lifting (ie great weapons) should be left to ogres/dragon ogres for that extra smack down power.


Thats about it for a little while, 

Oh! Astra Millipede codex arrived today, with armoured fist squad

:D

The Warlock