2500 Ogre Kingdoms (newish player)

[usekungfu]

Been a while since I've touched my ogres, new edition looks like they are viable again; here's what i got:

Lords
276 Tyrant with tenderizer, heavy armour, wyrdstone necklace

245 Slaughtermaster with bloodcleaver, skull mantle

Heroes
155 Butcher with dispell scroll

Core
370 8 Ogre bulls with iron fist, full command

434 8 Ironguts, full command

40 20 gnoblars

40 20 gnoblars

Special
230 4 Leadbelchers, bellower

230 4 Leadbelchers, bellower

165 Scraplauncher

165 Scraplauncher

Rare
75 Gorger

75 Gorger

2500

Well gents, what do you think?

[Torpedo Vegas]

Eight Leadbelchers seem a bit...extreme. I'd drop each unit sown to two man (well, Ogre) teams, and use those points to buy another unit Bulls, or buy the Mawseeker for your Ironguts.The Halfling Cookbook would be worth it on the slaughtermaster, as would the Wyrdstone necklace. He is a powerful spellcaster, worth a lot of points, who really likes to kill himself, so a ward save would help him out a bit.

[Oyerbides]

Been a while since I've touched my ogres, new edition looks like they are viable again; here's what i got:

Lords
276 Tyrant with tenderizer, heavy armour, wyrdstone necklace

245 Slaughtermaster with bloodcleaver, skull mantle

Heroes
155 Butcher with dispell scroll

Core
370 8 Ogre bulls with iron fist, full command

434 8 Ironguts, full command

40 20 gnoblars

40 20 gnoblars

Special
230 4 Leadbelchers, bellower

230 4 Leadbelchers, bellower

165 Scraplauncher

165 Scraplauncher

Rare
75 Gorger

75 Gorger

2500

Well gents, what do you think?

I just played 2 games at 2250. My list was similar. I didn't take any gnoblars ... I think they are useless unless you take like 60 of them. I only had one unit of 4 leadbelchers but they were awesome did tons of hits, and were easy to hide so they could not be charged. I took 2 gorgers and they too were awesome. I only took a single butcher but he worked fine always got a couple spells off rolling just 2 dice. i would have liked the Slaughtermaster, but couldn't afford one. Good choice there, but yes protect him. I took 2 units of Ironguts at 8 each one with the Tyrant and one with my BSB for 9 total in each and then only 5 bulls to protect my butcher the whole army was like 33 figures and worked well except against Temple Guard and the Purple Sun. Good luck.

[usekungfu]

Well you have to have a unit of Gnoblars in order to use the scraplauncher, and scraplaunchers are money.

[Oyerbides]

I agree about the Scraplaunchers, but at 2250 i just didn't see working one in. Can you take one if you take the gnoblar trappers ... I don't recall?

[usekungfu]

A little update, played a few games, decided I needed another unit, definitely needed a BSB.

Lords
305 Tyrant with tenderizer, armor of destiny, luck gnoblar

Heroes
184 Bruiser, BSB, Cannibal Totem, heavy armor, ogre club

155 Butcher with dispell scroll

155 Butcher with Blood cleaver

Core
290 6 Ogre bulls with iron fist, full command

338 6 Ironguts, full command

338 6 Ironguts, full command

40 20 gnoblars

Special
175 3 Leadbelchers, bellower

165 Scraplauncher

Rare
344 4 Maneasters, 3 Cathyan longswords, 1 brace of handguns

2489

[Torpedo Vegas]

Have the maneaters worked well for you? Personally I don't like to take big units of them, would rather have more bulls. I once again suggest the taking of the Runemaw in the unit your Tyrant will join.

[usekungfu]

With the advent of the new codex, I'm looking at:
Lords
Tyrant, Fencer's Blades, Glittering Scales

Slaughtermaster, Lore of the Maw, Talisman of preservation

Heroes
Butcher, Level 2, Lore of the Maw

Core
417- 9 Ironguts, full command

286- 8 Bulls, Ironfist, full command

288- 6 Ironguts, Full command

Special
354 8 Leadbelchers, Bellower

Rare
130- Gnoblar Scraplauncher

250- Stonehorn

Not 100% sure about the points for the Lords and Heroes, this leaves me about 40 points to play with. I'm pretty excited with the release of the codex.

[wittdooley]

With the advent of the new codex, I'm looking at:
Lords
Tyrant, Fencer's Blades, Glittering Scales

Slaughtermaster, Lore of the Maw, Talisman of preservation

Heroes
Butcher, Level 2, Lore of the Maw

Core
417- 9 Ironguts, full command

286- 8 Bulls, Ironfist, full command

288- 6 Ironguts, Full command

Special
354 8 Leadbelchers, Bellower

Rare
130- Gnoblar Scraplauncher

250- Stonehorn

Not 100% sure about the points for the Lords and Heroes, this leaves me about 40 points to play with. I'm pretty excited with the release of the codex.

Hot damn, I love that this clocks in at less than 40 models.

[usekungfu]

Good thing or a bad thing? I couldn't imagine playing an army like skaven or another army with just tons of infantry models.