Henning's Horde

Welcome to my first, hopefully successful, Gnoblog attempt!

I am Henning and I live in sunny South Africa. I’ve been playing warhammer for about 9 months now after I stopped playing 40k. The past years’ rule changes in 40k has left me disillusioned with that system and the jump to fantasy has really been a breath of fresh air. The greater tactical depth of the game turns my games into a very dynamic chessboard whereas 40k felt more like draughts.

I started with Lizardmen and currently I have approximately 5500 points’ worth. I decided to start Ogres mainly as I had the opportunity to purchase a sizeable, partly painted, second hand army and their play style seems significantly different to that of the Lizardmen.

In this blog I mean to post:
•   Pictures of my Ogre horde
•   Battle reports
•   Attempts at getting the rest of the army painted

The army I bought has some really well painted models. The previous owner made a lot of effort into getting the army unified and giving them character. Painting the remaining models up to his standard will be a challenge for me. I currently lack the patience to sit down and paint models and I see this project as a way to teach myself that virtue.

That’s that for introductions. I will post the first couple of pictures later this week.

Welcome to the gnoblog community; looking forward to seeing your army and reading any triumphs and tragedies you may have on the table.

Whilst it is nice to have an army ready painted, it is also a great achievement to start the road of painting your own models. I hope that you give this a try as you expand your army.

G_H

Welcome to the best community on the web 

I look forward to seeing your army put up on here, you will find that everyone here is super helpful. Always lots going on here too.

Jock

So, without further adieu...

http://s1292.photobucket.com/user/henning247/slideshow/

These aren't the best pictures, just an idea of what the army looks like... There is a lot of painting still to be done... 

I do love the Hunter, Gorger and Giant though...   

Welcome to the Gnoblog community!

That is some great looking ogres you have! They have a wonderfully cold and ominous note to them. Makes them really stand out and look scary. ( ogres best job)

Gotta love that pale skin tone too, makes it fun to match with other colors without throwing everything off balance composition wise. I can't wait to see more of your progress.

Cheers!

~ConOgre

I have to agree with Conogre 100% here; these models have a real cold and sinister look about them.

I understand (if I am correct) that the painted ones you have were not painted by you? If so, then what are you thinking when it comes to bringing the un-painted units into line with the others?
I ask because I am interested to here how you are going to move forward with painting the rest of the army. They look really good so far, and I think you are right, both the giant and hunter models look good. I would be tempted to add in a spot colour as they do have the whole black n white thing going on. Not that I am knocking that at all, as I said above they look well sinister, but I would be tempted to add in an odd colour just to set them off.
Which colour? Well, you are best off asking Conogre on that front...he is my colour theory guru, but I am really interested in seeing this army expand. keep posting up your progress mate.

G_H

@Conogre & Gnoblar_Herder:

Thanks for your kind words. I have indeed bought the army in the current state so the painting is not my doing. I would love to keep the standard and colour scheme the same to have a unified army. My painting skills and paitience aren't at the same level though so it will be a big challenge.

Good point in maybe adding some more colour. I will consider it and also think about which colour to add if I do so. Both of you are spot on with the sinister vibes and that is one thing I will definitely aim to keep in the army.

Yesterday one of the FLGS’ had a 3-game competition. In total there were 6 participants, 3 of which were new to fantasy. I decided it was a good place to bloody my new Ogres and see what they are capable of.

All of the games were battleline and the armies were to be 1600 points. The other armies were:
Warriors of Chaos – Competitive player.
Wood Elves – Competitive player.
Vampire Counts – New player.
Tomb Kings – New player.
Warriors of Chaos – New player (Competitive 40k player).

My list were as follows:
Firebelly lvl2, additional hand weapon
Ruby ring, Dispel scroll

Bruiser BSB, Iron fist
Armour of Destiny

6 Ironguts, Full command, Razor standard
3 Ogres, additional hand weapon
3 Ogres, additional hand weapon
10 Gnoblars, Trappers
10 Gnoblars, Trappers

Sabretusk
Sabretusk
3 Mournfang, Bellower + Standard bearer, Iron fists + heavy armour

Ironblaster
Ironblaster

First game: Wood elves
I don’t think he had the best list. Was his first game with the new Elves and he had:
BSB
Lvl4 Caster with the acorn
Drycha
2 units of Glade guard with trueflight arrows
Big block of Dryads
3 Treekin
Treeman

He got 3 additional forests and they were the poison ones. Only his GG, BSB and Spellsinger deployed in the middle of his deployment zone, in a forest. The rest were hiding in the woods. I deployed shallow and wide from left to right, IB, Ironguts + characters, Gnoblars, Mournfang, Ogres, SP,SP, Gnoblars, Ogres, IB.

He got first turn and the Treeman and Treekin popped out of hiding on my right, in front of the Gnoblars. Magic didn’t do much. He shot the Ogres with his Treeman, killing one and causing them to panic. Archers killed one more Ogre in the middle unit but they held.

I marched up with the Ironguts and Mournfang, Ironblaters moved to get line of sight on the Treeman, SP’s moved up the middle, right Gnoblars just moved to block charges, middle Gnoblars moved to the other forest close to the Ironguts in anticipation of the Dryads. Fireballed some GG,  and got flaming sword on a IB. Shooting killed a Treekin and failed to wound the Treeman. Second shot bounced before the Treekin and stopped in the ground! Double misfire for the bounce… Proceeded to roll 4 more misfires in a row .

His Dryads popped out in the forest near my Ironguts. Treeman charged the Gnoblars and they ran as it was too terrifying! Treekin failed a charge on the IB. Magic didn’t do much. Shooting didn’t do anything.

Gnoblars charged Dryads on the flank hehehe. Mournfang charged GG without characters. Right Ogres ran off the table, Gnoblars ran off, SP’s moved towards Dryad block on the left, Ironguts moved towards GG units, IB’s moved around out of charge arcs. Magic just casted flaming sword on IB. Shooting got a misfire on flaming IB. Was out for two more turns. Other IB also misfired! No more shooting the whole game for him. Mournfang ran over GG into the GG unit with the characters. Gnoblars held the dryads with the flank charge! They would proceed to do this for 4 more combat phases. They have loads of BMT!

Rest of the game went the same way with only the Treekin alive in the end. Combo of Firebelly’s breath weapon and IB killed of the Dryads and fight between Treeman and IB left the Treeman on 1 wound, Ironguts moved around and took care of him. Mournfang actually died to the GG unit with characters but Ironguts took them out before dealing with the Treeman.

Victory for the Ogres!

Game 2 against new all Nurgle WoC player coming up…

Well done mate always nice to start with a victory keep it going 

dtk

@deeteekay: Thanks dude 

So my second game of the competition was against Nurgle WoC. This guy is new to fantasy but he is a tough competitor in 40k and I really wanted to beat him.

His list was in the line of the following:
Exalted Nurgle hero on foot
Lvl2 Nurgle caster
2 Blocks of Hand weapon and shield Nurgle warriors (about 24 in each)
24 Marauders with flails
5 Nurgle knights with ensorcelled weapons
5 Choas warhounds

First thing I noticed, no BSB… Hmmm

He deployed, from my left to right, Marauders, Warriors with Exalted hero, Warriors with caster, Hounds, Knights. I deployed Ogres, SP, IB, Gnoblars, SP, Gnoblars, Ogres, Ironguts, IB and Mournfang.

He won first turn and everything surged forward. Nothing happened in Magic and no shooting.

Mournfang charge the Knights but fail their charge! I needed a 10 I think. Now the Mournfang are open for a knight charge… Not good. Ironguts charge hounds to get out of the Knights’ charge arc and hopefully overrun outside the warriors’ arc. Hounds decide to flee and I get a failed charge. Knights need to do a panic test for the hounds fleeing and fail! What?! Everything else moves up to try and create favourable charges etc. I cast firecage on the warriors with the hero and they take a few casualties. Shooting kills 4 knights with the IB’s! Now they need double ones to rally! Awesome.

His hounds and knights keep running. He charges a SP with the firecage warrior unit and takes enough casualties for a panic. He fails his panic and they run away! What?! WHAT?! He is really missing that BSB. Other Nurgle unit charges Gnoblars and breaks them. He doesn’t overrun and faces the Ironguts. I can’t remember if he did anything with his magic.

I charge the fleeing warrior block with the exalted hero with a SP and I catch them! WHAT??! This is ridiculous… My opponent decided it was too much as his other warrior block was next to receive the Ironguts in the front and Mournfang in the flank. He conceded and we talked a bit about his list. No BSB, no halberd warriors, too little magic and no shooting. The other WoC player then helped him to build another list which he would use in the final game if his opponent was fine with it.

Convincing victory for the Ogres  Very good start so far.

Well done mate 2 out of 2 is great going many more victories to come hopefully keep squishing those thinlings 

dtk

I'm with you mate; no BSB? What was he thinking? Oh well, an Ogre win is

AN OGRE WIN!

G_H

Now for the 3rd and final game of the competition. This was for 1st place and I was up against the experienced WoC player. We have played a few friendly games before with him winning on average 2 out of 3 games. His other army is Ogres so he knows my army better than I do as well… He said he was trying some new things so that gave me a bit of hope. Here is his list:

Daemon Prince: Nurgle, 1+, 5++, Stupidity, ASF, Fly
Exalted hero: Tzeentch, BSB, 1+, 3++, Reroll 1’s, Chaos steed
Sorcerer: Slaanesh, lvl2, familiar
18 Warriors: Nurgle, FC, Halberds
Warshrine: Tzeentch
5 Warhounds
5 Knights: Tzeentch, FC, Ensorcelled weapons.

So, he has the flying Nurgle Prince and the un-killable Tzeentch BSB. Ouch. He mistakenly ran his Slaanesh sorcerer in the Nurgle warrior unit which he can’t do but it wasn’t game changing so I was fine with it. His sorcerer had some irritating spells, 2 of which gave me random D6 movement that prevented 2 charges that I would have liked to get. The other was to add a D6 to my Ld tests. Not so nice for me.

Deployment was very similar to my previous game. His DP was on my left flank and the rest was pretty much the same except the IB on the right was completely on my right flank. He won first turn and the DP flew up behind a building so I didn’t have line of sight with the 2 IB’s. Everything else surged forward. He got the D6 movement on my Mournfang and I failed dispel with 5 dice. I think I needed a 12 or something.

I charged the hounds with the Ironguts and he held. Random movement saw my Mournfang not able to charge the Knights with the BSB. All else moved up for favourable charge lanes and LoS. Magic didn’t do anything. I managed to move on IB so that I can see the DP and did 3 wounds I think, he was left on 1 wound. Other IB shot at the Knights and killed 1, and he failed look out sir with the BSB! Then he passed his 3++ reroll 1’s…

He charged the IB with the knights and I held. DP charged a 3 man Ogre unit. Warriors charged a Gnoblar unit. Magic didn’t do anything significant as I managed to dispel both random movement spells. He broke the IB and it ran off the table, he reformed to face the Mournfang. DP did 4 wounds to the Ogres and they failed to cause a single wound! They ran and he reformed to face the IB and also got 2 wounds back with Soulfeeder. Warriors broke the Gnoblars and the single survivor ran for the hills, they reformed to face the Ironguts.

Ironguts charged past the warriors into the Shrine and Mournfang charged the Knights on a hill. Ogres rallied and reformed to face the DP. Other Ogres moved to get a rear charge on the Warriors and the kitties to get a flank. Gnoblars just meandered in between Ironguts and Mournfang. IB moved behind a forrest so that the DP would at least need a dangerous terrain when charging the IB. Magic, I think I got firecage off on the Warriors but they only took 1 or 2 casualties. Shooting failed to do anything to the DP. Combat broke the shrine and it ran with 1 wound left. I reformed to face the Warriors other flank, they were surrounded now. Mournfang killed all the Knights but failed to wound the BSB, it did 1 wound and held with rerolls on its panic test.

DP failed a charge on the IB and landed in the forrest, passing its dangerous terrain test. Warriors turned to face Ironguts. He got random movement on them and being 9” away meant they wouldn’t be able to charge. Shrine rallied. Combat with the Mournfang saw them take 1 wound and BSB passed all ward saves. Mournfang held.

Charged DP with Ogres, Warriors in the flank with other Ogres and rear with SP. Ironguts moved closer. Not much Magic and IB killed the Shrine. Mournfang combat ended in the same result as previous. Warriors lost combat but held and they were down to 12 men. DP did 4 more wounds and Ogres ran again. DP faced the IB.

DP charged the IB. Magic didn’t do much. BSB broke the Mournfang and DP broke the IB but neither of them caught them. Warriors killed the kitty but lost the sorcerer in combat. They held.

Ironguts charged warriors IB and Mournfang fled of the table. Ogres rallied and moved outside of DP charge arc.  Guts and Ogres broke the warriors and ran them down. At this point it looks like draw with only 1 round to go!! I still have a chance…

DP charges Gnoblars and breaks them with again one survivor. He reforms to face the Guts. BSB moved out of their charge arc.

Guts needs 11 to get the charge off and the get it  !! They win combat with combat res and he rolls a 10 on his Ld check! We measure the BSB’s distance and he is 14” away!!! OMW. I try to catch him with the Guts and do so  !!!!!

Victory for the Ogres and 1st place 


I can't believe it... It was the perfect start for the Ogres and they exceeded all my expectations. 

Well done on 1st place mate 3 wins out of 3 great start to life as an ogre general nice well written battle reports 

dtk