Ogre Kingdom Thoughts

I know I said I was going to continue to talk about the ways to approach the new necron army with certain marine variants next post, but I tried my first few games of warhammer fantasy last night and I figured I would offer up my thoughts on the army I chose. I ended up going with ogres because with our stores league discount the ogres were the coolest and cheapest looking army to just hop in with and try them out.

First thing I noticed after my first game. These guys hit like a sack full of bricks! It was absolutely insane the amount of damage they could inflict from combat and the amount of damage they could absorb every turn and just keep marching forward. The combination of the ogre charge inflicting impacts, the sheer weight if attacks and the stomps allows them to really even the odds even if they are heavily outnumbered. After a few more games I also noticed they were surprisingly quick to get across the bored as well. I played a pretty basic list with a bruiser with heavy armor and great weapon, six bulls with crusher double hand weapons and banner and four iron guts. Every game I played the bull unit with bruiser never ceased to surprise me with the combination of speed, resiliency and hitting power, reliably inflicting over 20 wounds a turn on average. From what I was told that's quite impressive.

The next level of our league will be at 1000 points and I think I will be adding a fire belly, a stonehorn, mournfangs and leadbelchers. Might be dropping the ironguts from the list and replacing them with the mournfangs because after finally getting my first game in a realize how scary the mournfangs could really be. The speed they offer, the great armor save and hitting power seems pretty sick. The firebelly will replace my bruiser because I need some magic presence in my list as the skaven player I played in the first couple rounds punished my ogres with no way for me to responde in the magic phase which really taught me the importance of the magic phase. And finally the stonehorn is getting added strictly because I love that model and it seems pretty cool on paper. I've never used monsters before and im curious to see what the hype is behind the model other then it looking fantastic. All in all I was very impressed with the fantasy system in general and I actually had a great time playing the game. Consider me a fantasy player now.