13 Feb 2012
The background story is to be found both on my profile as well as in the Tribe DataBaste (last entry right now).
The Tribe: Just to sum up, the tribe's leader is Mugall Desert Chef the Unsanitary who got tired of the useless Tyrant Sir Edem Silverscalp the Feathered and poisoned him before challenging his position as leader. Only Mugall knows this, and he is quite impressed with his own cleverness (which he attributes to a blessing from The Great Maw).
The tribe is composed of primarily stupid ogres, who believed in Sir Edem's lies about his success as a maneater in the Empire - in reality he was captured and forced to fight for his freedom. Before that he was rolled in tar and feathers. The Emperial soldiers called him "the Feathered" after that. He took the name home with him and said it was an honorary title granted for slaying a Hippogrif..
Living in the desert has made the tribe hardy and they can go longer than most ogres without eating, before turning on each other. They now hope Mugall's quest for meat will prove successful - their lack of skill and horrendous luck does not provide the best of odds..
Being a bunch of losers in the wasteland, the other ogre tribes called my tribe "the dust eaters". They of course thought it was a good thing implying recognition of the "achievement" of surviving in the desert-like environment.
Mugall Desert Chef the Unsanitary: The leader of the tribe, Mugall has a spark of intelligence once in a while. As child he ate the most unimaginable sickly stuff and was therefore given to the Butcher of his birth tribe. The Slaughtermaster thought he was too ugly and did not want him. Living in the shadow of the Slaughtermaster's (beautifully fat and skilled) apprentice, Mugall was one envious ogre. One night he snuck in and suffocated his hated rival in a mix of guts, grizzle and rotten fur, dragged him to the woods and consumed him with delight. Knowing that his deed would mean certain death, he fled into the wild.
There he lived as an outcast for years, experimenting with gut magic when finally a tribe came by, who didn't try to kill him and who needed a decent chef. That tribe happened to be the then-called Tribe of Sir Edem...
Gegmudd Splinterhed: Gegmudd is one stupid, but very fat and strong ogre. This is just what Mugall needs for his quest. So Gegmudd was given the weapons of Sir Edem (mostly to mock dead Sir Edem, but useful too) and a pole on which to hang Helmut Nebenheim for inspiration in battle.
Helmut Nebenheim: The "banner". This unlucky chap was given the task of guiding Sir Edem to the mountains when he had paid for his freedom by fighting the Empire campaign to end. Of course Sir Edem needed some solid proof of his endeavors and therefore abducted the poor sod as a souvenir - it was also a great way of taking some kind of revenge on the pesky Imperials. Since then Helmut has been a captive of the ogres'. When Sir Edem was killed by Mugall, Helmut was "promoted" from pet/souvenir to banner.
Sir Edem made him do tricks and tell stories from the Empire, but Mugall has no interest in stupid tales which doesn't have an ounce of meat in them. The tribe loves to hear him sing, dance and tell stories though,
which has probably saved his life.
Mugall thought that if they loved that thinling so much they wouldn't eat him already, he might as well be of some use in battle too, where he could serve as a reminder of the feast to come after a good victory. And so it went that Helmut must be wrapped in chains and tied to a banner every so often.
Autor's notes: This is my first WFB army, while I have a 40K Necron army. I've painted my fair share of models for many years, but I've never collected an army. I had a sudden inspiration and decided to paint an Ogre-model. I found the one I liked best and just loved painting it. After reading about OK, I thought it would be great to make an army of these fat gluttons.
The name is derived from the insult uttered by Bart Simpson "eat dust, dust eater!", which afaik is a variation of the saying which refers to the loser of a race, who must cough in the dust from the winner's wheels.
Fitting for an army of stupid ogres who will lose many battles over the next few months
The pictures show Mugall and Mugall next to his Mawtooth sporting the tribe logo..
The Tribe: Just to sum up, the tribe's leader is Mugall Desert Chef the Unsanitary who got tired of the useless Tyrant Sir Edem Silverscalp the Feathered and poisoned him before challenging his position as leader. Only Mugall knows this, and he is quite impressed with his own cleverness (which he attributes to a blessing from The Great Maw).
The tribe is composed of primarily stupid ogres, who believed in Sir Edem's lies about his success as a maneater in the Empire - in reality he was captured and forced to fight for his freedom. Before that he was rolled in tar and feathers. The Emperial soldiers called him "the Feathered" after that. He took the name home with him and said it was an honorary title granted for slaying a Hippogrif..
Living in the desert has made the tribe hardy and they can go longer than most ogres without eating, before turning on each other. They now hope Mugall's quest for meat will prove successful - their lack of skill and horrendous luck does not provide the best of odds..
Being a bunch of losers in the wasteland, the other ogre tribes called my tribe "the dust eaters". They of course thought it was a good thing implying recognition of the "achievement" of surviving in the desert-like environment.
Mugall Desert Chef the Unsanitary: The leader of the tribe, Mugall has a spark of intelligence once in a while. As child he ate the most unimaginable sickly stuff and was therefore given to the Butcher of his birth tribe. The Slaughtermaster thought he was too ugly and did not want him. Living in the shadow of the Slaughtermaster's (beautifully fat and skilled) apprentice, Mugall was one envious ogre. One night he snuck in and suffocated his hated rival in a mix of guts, grizzle and rotten fur, dragged him to the woods and consumed him with delight. Knowing that his deed would mean certain death, he fled into the wild.
There he lived as an outcast for years, experimenting with gut magic when finally a tribe came by, who didn't try to kill him and who needed a decent chef. That tribe happened to be the then-called Tribe of Sir Edem...
Gegmudd Splinterhed: Gegmudd is one stupid, but very fat and strong ogre. This is just what Mugall needs for his quest. So Gegmudd was given the weapons of Sir Edem (mostly to mock dead Sir Edem, but useful too) and a pole on which to hang Helmut Nebenheim for inspiration in battle.
Helmut Nebenheim: The "banner". This unlucky chap was given the task of guiding Sir Edem to the mountains when he had paid for his freedom by fighting the Empire campaign to end. Of course Sir Edem needed some solid proof of his endeavors and therefore abducted the poor sod as a souvenir - it was also a great way of taking some kind of revenge on the pesky Imperials. Since then Helmut has been a captive of the ogres'. When Sir Edem was killed by Mugall, Helmut was "promoted" from pet/souvenir to banner.
Sir Edem made him do tricks and tell stories from the Empire, but Mugall has no interest in stupid tales which doesn't have an ounce of meat in them. The tribe loves to hear him sing, dance and tell stories though,
which has probably saved his life.
Mugall thought that if they loved that thinling so much they wouldn't eat him already, he might as well be of some use in battle too, where he could serve as a reminder of the feast to come after a good victory. And so it went that Helmut must be wrapped in chains and tied to a banner every so often.
Autor's notes: This is my first WFB army, while I have a 40K Necron army. I've painted my fair share of models for many years, but I've never collected an army. I had a sudden inspiration and decided to paint an Ogre-model. I found the one I liked best and just loved painting it. After reading about OK, I thought it would be great to make an army of these fat gluttons.
The name is derived from the insult uttered by Bart Simpson "eat dust, dust eater!", which afaik is a variation of the saying which refers to the loser of a race, who must cough in the dust from the winner's wheels.
Fitting for an army of stupid ogres who will lose many battles over the next few months
The pictures show Mugall and Mugall next to his Mawtooth sporting the tribe logo..
