2500 Point Ogre Games day results write up. NEW WoC VICTORY INCLUDED

Hello Friends
Your the The Apothecary here finally giving you a whats what on my victories and defeats. I have never done a battle report so this should be interesting. Lets start with what brought you here most likely, My match up vs THE NEW WARRIORS OF CHAOS.PS if you want to know MY army list, its easy to find on the army section or just PM me. Ile list my opponents armies as best i remember but i wont bother with my own you will know what everything i talk about does anyway.

Now let me start by saying, this was a newish player playing a new book, so I went in expecting not to much from this match. So we drew Battle Line, terrain was varied. I had first turn. His army was A unit of khorn warriors, unit of forsaken, 2 chariots, 2 hound units, hellcanon,Khorn Knights, Demon Prince general ( nurgle i do believe but it really didnt matter), and a lvl 4 Nurgle sorc. I do believe he had a hero whatever in the khorn unit.

So anyway first turn i just jonderd up the 12 with my 2 units of Guts, i got lucky and was near a tower first turn so my leadies jumped in that sucker. My Pups ran up the flanks looking for good redirect targets and my mournfang positions themselves for a nice flank behind a forest. My cannon shot at the demon prince but his ward saved his worthless life. Leadies blasted the warriors a bit, nothing significant. Nothing amazing magic either. His first turn he charged my mournfang with his wolves ( im not even sure why >> ) and other than that he moved everything else more or less up into my grill. I was shocked at the skullcrushers not charging, and his positioning left a lot to be desired. So his magic his nurgle popped 1 of my iron guts, but other than that i shut him down. Hellcannon missed. I MURDERD his pups ( I cannon express this enough ) which gave me a free reform which I used to turn my mournfang towards the forest i mentioned which gave me a perfect flank on his forsaken.

Turn 2 this is where shit just hit the fan friends. Charges Mourn at the forsaken... that is all. I could have ran my guts into his Skullcrushers, but i knew if i made him charge, these mournfang would kill this forsaken unit within a turn and i would have a PERFECT rear charge, so i was patient. My 2nd unit of guts on the left side of the field got ready to accept a Demon prince, and my dogs blocked his 1 chariot and the other his knights to keep them away for a bit. Magic, used my sickle to get my lvl 6 rolling, got off Trollguts and Toothcracker on the ironguts standing infront of the the Crushers. SHOOTING.. Cannon.. hit prince.. prince fail ward.. cannon do 6 wounds to prince. HEAD POPPED just like that, did a little jig. So now with his general down i was feeling pretty darn confident. Leadies once again shot at the chaffy warriors unit, did a handful of wounds, nothing special

but i love them. So COMBAT.. Mournfang 10 impacts, one of my best rolls to date. i think 8 wounds outta that im not sure. He swung at me and i dont think i need to tell you guys how well THAT goes against Ironfist Fangs on the charge with Dragonhide. Nothing sticks to me. My turn. I do in TOTAL something like 12 wounds with the fangs alone, i think the ogres picked up an extra 6 wounds. Now here is the real slap in the face. Im feeling cocky at this point so i burn my Breath weapon ( no pun intended ) because hes only got 3 frickin forsaken left. Kill those 3. OVER RUN INTO HIS SKULLSCRUSHERS FLANK. Now at this point im kicking myself for NOT charging with the guts but who the hell cares, i just got a flank charge WITH MOURNFANG.. WITH BANNER.. on SKULLCRUSHERS. So after im done grinning like an asshole i pass the turn. His turn 2 he charged my mournfangs front ( or rather whats exposed of it ) with his warriors. Once again im just grinning like an asshole because i know these strength 5 warriors are just going to bounce off . He charges my cats which flee but either run off the board or get caught , however his knights go off as well. So boom they are dealt with for another turn after this one. His magic is crap, rolled i think a 5 me getting 4. Eat my hellheart BAM his caster rolls the lose of magic level one. Goes down to a level 2 so his magic over after that. SHooting, hellcanon goes apeshit and rushes up 12 inches or whatever. COMBAT, he's swinging first. ALL TOGETHER he pushes 2 wounds through ( i think out of like.. 17 warrior attacks, 4 out of his exalted and the 1 skullcrushers attacks ). Needless to say im no fool, 2 Fangs on the warriors 2 on the crusher, i would have tossed more on the warriors but i couldnt. Impact was less than steller this time, 1 wound on the crushers i think, God dam 1+ AS

. So once again, MURDERING the warriors, didnt manage to kill 1 of his skulls, but i did put another wound on it. However his 2 wounds to my countless makes him lose combat. FAILS his stubborn warrior LD twice!, crushers of course fail the insane courage test. I catch them BOTH!. At this point i just wrapped up the rest. Block of guts with my SM and a Bruiser hit his knights like a ton of bricks and take them down a peg or 2, and i just clean up his chariots with leadies and cannon fire. Game result CRUSHING VICTORY. Wiped him out to the last man and only gave up 42 points ( my 2 dogs ). The only OTHER model i removed was the 1 irongut from his first magic phase. I was VERY impress with my armies performance. It was the first game i have ran with this new Dual Iron Guts with 2 Chars in each list. I know this game was 20 percent luck/rolls, 70 percent Opponent inexperience and 10 percent ME, but you know what I will take this one. Warriors is a tuff nut to crack and i think this is a win for all Ogre players out there.

Now that the important games out of the way, my other 3 games were vs Wood Elves. He crushed me quite handily. I have always had a problem with them, they are quick, they do amazing shooting. And he had 1 archer character running around at movement 8-9 7ish shots, strength 7 no armor saves. I caught him second turn but by then i had 2 mournfang left with 2 wounds on 1, it was harsh. DEF a crushing defeat

3rd was vs High elves. turn 1 and 2 looked great, i had an entire flank for my cannon and i was putting round after round though his knights and chariots, but 3rd time was the charm and she blew up. After that it went from bad to worse. He kept pushing through Okhams razor on Swordies, and tho my ironguts kills the swordies 2nd round of combat, it wasnt enough and Spearmen with Okhams Cleaned me up. Also mournfang losing to Silverhelms and a friggin eagle on my flank made me grit the teeth a bit

But thats warhammer, roll dice have fun

. This was a crushing defeat

4th game was vs Daemons. Now he said his list was a higher up list and he had never played against new ogres ( apparently I am the only one playing them around my area ) so he didnt know my statlines at all, and it has been a long while since i have played vs Daemons but this was a walk over fight for the most part. 1rst turn charged his Prince with mournfang and just kept on going which he made sure i knew he did not understand why i got parries

. His 2nd turn he charged my mourns with bloodletters, yea that went about as well as the prince for him. Took me another combat or 2 but i eventually melted without losing a fang (2+ so good). Meanwhile my cannons pickin off his little baby tractors and my leadies are putting some pressure on his Nurgle... things unit. Cant remember what they were called but they had a nurgle character in there and it was a pretty hard nut to crack. He had 1 VERY good flamer turn burning 4 full iron guts out of 1 of my units. In a unit of only 7 ironguts that gets my attention fairly quickly. My second unit of guts charged his nurglestar? Now his biggest downfall was he had 3 wizards, but all 3 were only lvl 2's with loremasters. So with gruts sickle i managed to never lose toothcracker/trollguts on this unit of ironguts. It was a full 4 turn grind but i eventually got enough OTHER bodies to help charge in to get the job done. Let me tell you, when 2 units BOTH with regen start smacking each other its like watching a tennis match... or golf. But eventually my added strength from Wildform and Great weps got the better of him and i made him crumble to dust. This was another crushing victory.

So there you have it lads, either win big or lose big. My 2 irongut units performed BEAUTIFULLY, I may no longer run a Tyrant, but I feel running a pure gut list makes up for it. Plus with 2 hard to wound chars and a champ in the front, it really does not give your opponent an opportunity to stop your guts attacks. Most of the time you will never lose your characters in 1 round of combat, and even if you lose your champ, they cannont put attacks on the unit itself so you will always get full attacks back first round at least. May seem cheesy but you do what you have to i suppose. There is much worse out there then champion dancing, like conga lining

. Anyway i am hoping for some more games in the next week or 2 so I shall try to keep things posted.

Happy crushing fellow Ogres:D