Out with the old and in with the new: A journey from the Mountains of Mourn

Welcome one and all to my own little Gnoblog.

I have been waiting until I started my new ogres before starting this blog however I wanted to get thoughts before building and show what I have done before.

So I present the army that was:

Characters

Hunter BSB conversion...


Tyrant of the bloody eyes


Slaughtmaster who only died once in 24 games.


First converted Butcher with Grut's Sickle


Crown of Command Butcher

Core








Bunch of Bulls






Ironguts

Rare




Converted Scrap launcher.

So that was my last Ogre army. I just sold this to a guy at the club (There were also Gnoblars but there shall be none of them in this blog (Due to theme)

So what do you think? I'll be back later to ask for thoughts on the themes. (Click on the thumbnail for bigger pics.

Thanks for looking!

Wow, great conversion work. I see you put a lot of effort into character and special models. I can't wait until you post some of your new stuff!

Thanks Biteninja!

This army was built, converted and paintedin 3 and a half weeks for a Tournament. Got nominated for best painted which suprised me.

New stuff will not be here yet. Need to work on which theme to do... Which I will be asking for help...

Ok so with the old army out of the way I am now going for a new theme. I have narrowed it down to one of the following:

1. Daemonic Ogres - I think that adding wings to things makes the cooler. (Don't ask why it just does ). So I was thinking a huge Tyrant/Slaughtermaster with Wings leading his tribe into the chaos wastes (Yes we are resiliant to magic but after a few 1000 years in there we would start to mutate I think).

2. Lustrian Ogres - Not a fan of the new Mournfangs? We hello Stegadons. Darker skin colour and based around firebellies due to the hot climate.

3. Top of the mountain - A frozen look to the Ogres. Even basic Bulls Ogres need to be wearing furs.

4. Pirate Ogres - Well why not

5. Generic tribe from the mountains - This tribe would get it's story playing against my normal opponents and how well they did. Creating it's own background starting from the blank slate.


I am planning on taking these guys to tournaments over the next 12 months. Mainly for the chance to compete in the painting side of things but also to be semi competetive.

Thanks for looking and let me know which one you would rather see.

I have seen a few chaos ogres around (I think there are some in the gallary) They are always unique and and great to look at.
Lustrian ogres was an Idea I was going to do as well. I think they would look great. The Steggadon/mournfang cavalry would be expensive but worth it (and you would get all those lizardmen bits). Again, there have been a few of those conversions around somewhere in the gallary.

The last three you actually see A LOT of (I have a snow theme with lots of long hair and fur added). Pirates are common as well, but always fantastic.
In the end I suggest you go with what you will have the most fun with. I think the demonic ogres would be really entertaining, or the lustrains if you love bright colours. Also, depending on the colours used, they would be the most visually appealing.

Thanks for the feedback. To be honest I am leaning towards the Daemonic theme or and this one came to me a while ago...

Undead Ogres...

Tyrant as a vampire, Bulls as Ghouls, Ironguts as Grave Guard, Maneaters as Vampire thralls. That sort of thing.

I also had an idea of a necromancer contolling my slaughtermaster.

So you would use the VC book and ogre models? That would be difficult when it comes to tournaments explaining all the "counts as" (not to mention the fact that each ogre represents 4 other models). I would be neat to see though, whichever book you use.

I also like the idea of an ogre with a broken gut plate, all his insides falling out... a full gnoblar corpse dangling out.

Oh no it would be a Ogre army. Just in appearance it would be undead.

I don't know. I have all these plans but then someone at the club will shoot them down. 

There are always people who will dislike something (that's why the internet has 4chan!) so just go with what you will like. Who knows, maybe you will impress those nay-sayers!
There's also hundreds of ideas in my head as well. Usually I do one really good looking showcase model with the theme I like and its enough to satisfy me (I have so many different space marine captains, but only 1 actual army)

Ok adding my Ogre achievements in here as I can never seem to find it in the achievement thread:


1. Gettin Started - Play a game of warhammer using the new ogre book
2. Going Large - Play a game of warhammer of over 2000 points using the new ogre book
3. Brace for impact! - During a game, an ogre unit successfully charges and rolls 10+ on the dice
4. I'm in charge! - play a game with the new book using a tyrant in your army
5. Incoming! - during a game, lose at least 3 ogres to a single war machine shot
6. look what we can do! - have a mornfang rider successfully parry an attack
7. Oooo, shiny! - buy one of the models new to the ogre range
8. That's huge! - build a stonehorn or thundertusk model
9. Sigh! - lose more than 3 ogres to any one casting of a spell that involved you taking an initiative test as part of it's resolution
10. I didn't mean it lads - lose a spellcaster to the "snake eyes" effect of grut's sickle
11. Boom! Hur, Hur, Hur - field a unit of 5+ leadbelchers and shoot with them at least 4 times in a single game.
12. Say hello to my little friend! - field an ironblaster in your army
13. Still loving it - play 5 games using the new book rules
14. Crush the thinlings - take a new book ogre army to a tournament
15. getting colder - field a thundertusk OR a unit of yhetees in your army
16. it's freezing! - field more than one thunder tusk AND a unit of yhettes in your army
17. Getting warmer! - field a firebelly in your army
18. Hot! Hot! - field more than one firebelly in your army
19. Unleash Hell! - field 2 scraplaunchers and 2 iron blasters in your army
20. One for the cauldron - paint an ogre model and post it on the stronghold
21. Paint a unit of ogres
22. Here Kitty! - field 1 or more lone sabretusks in your army
23. Win a game using ogres vs. beastmen.
24. Win a game using ogres vs. Dwarfs
25. Does this taste funny to you? - Win a game using ogres vs. Daemons of chaos
26. Win a game using ogres vs. High elves
27. Win a game using ogres vs. Wood elves
28. Win a game using ogres vs. Dark elves
29. franzfurters - Win a game using ogres vs. Empire
30. Tastes like chicken - Win a game using ogres vs. Lizardmen
31. Stake Out - Win a game using ogres vs. Vampire counts
32. Past their sell-by date - win a game using ogres vs. Tomb kings
33. Eat your greens - Win a game using ogres vs. orcs and goblins
34. Win a game using ogres vs. Warriors of chaos
35. Overtyrant - win a game using ogres vs. Ogres
36. Tinned food - win a game using ogres vs. Bretonnia
37. Rats! - win a game using ogres vs. Skaven
38. Convert one of the new range of ogre models
39. Oops! - destroy either a scraplauncher or an ironblaster with a misfire
40. We don't bicker! - field an army containing 4+ units of gnoblars
41. No auto-wounds for you! - have a butcher or slaughtermaster get hit with a poisoned attack
42. What that  coming over the hill? - field a unit of 4+ mornfangs
43. Now you see me - field a unit of scouting maneaters
44. Hunger! - field 3 gorgers in an army
45. Hahahaha! - kill 3+ models in a single use of the gnoblar trappers rule.
46. Fork in the eye! - kill an enemy character with a scraplauncher killing blow
47. I'm special - field any one of the ogre special characters in your army
48. The maw! - successfully use the large template version of the maw spell to kill an enemy model
49. the maw the merrier! - have the large template version ofmaw spell roll a misfire and kill one or more of your ogres.
50. Oh no you don't - use the greedy fist item to consume the magical properties of a weapon
51. I Heart you - use the hellheart to cause miscasts in 2+ enemy wizards in one use.
52. hole is where the heart is - cause an enemy wizard to dimensional cascade and go down a hole using the hellheart.
53. Its mine, MINE! - use the gnoblar Thiefstone to steal an item from an enemy character.
54. Just the lads - field an army containing ONLY ogres, no animals, gnoblars, etc.  Bonus if you also win.
55. You can't touch this - pass a 4+ ward vs flaming with a firebelly.
56. Start a gnoblog for your ogre army
57. Update pics into your ogre gnoblog on at least 4 seperate occasions.
58. Use the thunder mace in a game to kill 10+ models with thunder crush attacks (does not have to be all in one attack)
59. Why do I bother? - lose 3 games in a row with your ogre army
60. Overpowered! - win 3 games in a row with your ogre army.
61. That's no place for a hatchet - roll a 2 on the scraplauncher misfire chart
62. Jugger! - roll a 10+ when successfully charging with a stone horn
63. Re-roll this! - subject 3+ high elf units to numbing chill in the same combat phase
64. Oh shi-! - Have a slaughermaster or butcher die from rolling a 1 on Bloodgruel.
65. Seigebroken - Hit a building with Seigebreaker.
66. OH GOD MY FACE! - Kill an enemy character with  the chaintrap from the Thundertusk.
67. Dancing On Sunshine -. Have a character pass his Initative test from being hit by Purple Sun
68. Sunburned - Kill an Ogre with a Purple Sun that YOU cast.
69. Why Can't I Hold All These Items? - Roll 120pts for Golgfag magic item allowance.
70. Buffy The Ogre Caster - Have all of your Slaughtermasters spells be augments.
71. It's Rude To Bragg - Have Bragg kill a Large Target in a challenge.
72. WHAT THE FU-BOOOM! - Destroy an enemy model with an Ironblaster misfire. 
73. Soups on! -  Have Skrag kill enough models to unlock all of his special rules in one game
74. Crusher - play 10 games with the new ogre book
75. Bruiser - play 20 games with the new ogre book
76. Tyrant - play 50 games with the new ogre book
77. Maneater - play with the new ogre book in 5 different venues
78. ker-splat! - kill an enemy unit with just your impact hits alone.
79. Box clever - construct, buy or convert a new carry case for your ogre army
80. Altered beast power up! - boost every unit in your army with a single augment from the lore of the great maw
81. ...and you play Ogres!? - Have more war machine weapons in your army than your opponent.
82.  Small, but many -have a gnoblar horde break an enemy unit.
83. We're all there - have a unit of at least 12 ogres get into the enemy deployment zone with no casualties taken.
84. My horde is bigger then yours - have an ogre horde break an enemy horde.
85. So much power lost - have an ogre unit roll 10 or more and still fail a charge.
86. Rambo or Conan? - have a lone ogre lose a combat but pass his break test.
87. You call that a club?.... THIS is a club - cause 6 S10's with Siegebreaker on a unit occupying a building.
88. Ogre zoo - Paint at least one of the Stonehorn, Thundertusk, Mournfang and Sabretusk models.
89. She's a Maaaaaneater! - paint the female Maneater model.
90. They're not bloody Eagles you know! - Run a Hunter in a unit of 5 or more Sabretusks.
91. But they're soooo cute! - Fill your whole core with Gnoblars.
92. Bird brained - kill an enemy model with a hunter's blood vulture.
93. Timber! - lose an ogre when a giant (yours or your opponent's) falls on one of your units.
94. Thinling roast! - kill 5 enemy models with a single firebelly breath weapon blast
95. Cats paw - Kill a skaven weapon team with a sabretusk
96. Halitosis - use 3 breath weapon attacks in a single game.
97. Billy no-mates - field an army with only 1 character in it.  He cannot deploy in a unit or join one.  Bonus if he survives the game.
98. Steady now! - Use freehand to paint a banner for an ogre unit
99. Da lads! - post a pic of your entire army on the stronghold in your ogre gnoblog.
100. Feast master - place 1st, or best in race, at a tournament.
101. Brrrr! - field more than one thundertusk in your army OR more than one unit of yhettes in your army

Purple ones are the ones I have done.

Total so far is: 32/101... Not bad. Need to get this gnoblog going though and increase the modelling ones on here.