I'm feeling a lil' bit hungry....

Greetings,

Here is a more or less current cookie themed Ogre army that is about 98% painted/ finished. It also includes some recent photos of 'Something hungry this way comes....' or my Skrag scratch-build. He's still not finished and I have to put the Muppetlars (I have decided upon that as a name for the Muppet-Gnoblar hybrids) upon him. I'm thinking of doing a Beaker and Bunsen heads for them. Beaker will be a fun one to do, Bunsen will take more effort.

I've also managed to finish the musicians, more or less, for the Leadbelchers. I now have Gonzo the Great (wearing the helmet and blue), a baby Animal (kinda) and either a relation of Kermit, since Kermit is already hiding on a base.

Hope you guys like them.


Regards,


English Pillock

C is for Cookie.

Greetings,

Now I consider myself to be a relatively reasonable and pseudo-sane person, now before you look at the rest of the post, you MUST WATCH THE VIDEO. This will help you understand the following insanity.

REMEMBER: VIDEO FIRST.

Ok...

Did you watch the video?


Really?


Fine. I believe you; thousands wouldn't!


I apologise for being rather quiet on the blog front, a hectic month of work and a need to get stuff done without documenting it has left me with a lot of things painted with only a few photos taken of them. I am putting up the project that I have enjoyed the most today. The Romans will come later.


Here is some of what I have been doing recently.

 

Here is a mess of Green-Stuff work. The head was done over the Irongut banner, and was done first. the googly eyes are 6mm ones from a hobby store near to Orctown. The cookies were individually made and added to the mouth with a generous application of super glue and patience.

 

 

Here is his GLORIOUSNESS in full TECHNICOLOUR!!!

He was a relatively easy paint job. Dark blue base, dry-brushed a slightly lighter blue, the given a blue ink. 
The cookies were painted black first. Then coated in a brown, then a light brown on top, then a dark brown for the chocolate chips.

 

 

 

 

Here he is in a unit of Ironguts. To tie in the Cookie Monster theme all of the Ironguts have Cookie Monster pelts upon their person.


I have many more photos, but I will save them for another post as this is already rather long.


Regards,


English Pillock


p.s.


I do not have the right to distribute anything related to the Cookie Monster. He is a product of Sesame Street, I am just having a laugh at my own expense.

Ogres Part Four of ?: Special Choices...

Greetings,

This post is going to be about the two Special choices that I use for the Ogre Kingdoms and why I didn't choose the third.

Scraplauncher

This was the latter of the pair of specials that I use in my Ogre army. It has had issues with misfires, but that is a theme that all Ogre weaponry has.

The main thing I like about this model is the sheer absurdity of the model. It's a stone thrower on a chariot that does a large template, strength 3 with killing blow. This is bizarre... With accurate guesses you can really disrupt the opponents plan. They can potentially kill things like large units of low toughness troops or even heavily armoured knights. The potential to kill knights by rolling a 6 to wound.

The main issue is the misfire chart for it. In the first game on the first turn it misfired, had an axe/cleaver/spiky thing to the crotch of the rhinox/ stegadon and then he charged into my general's unit and took two wounds off of my Bruiser with impact hits. Ho-hum...

As far as the GW model goes, I really don't like it and it is horrible to put together. The ones that I've seen over here aren't impressive from a model standpoint.

So when I was starting my Lizardmen army I picked up a brace of stegadons and didn't attach the howdah on one of them. After messing about with my bits box and sprue for several hours, I made the construct below. While I was making this I was going on a bit of a Lustria theme bender. My Ogre Hunters have the crossbows from the different weapon upgrades for the stegadon, and I also made a Lustria theme Maneater. This was a throwaway thing as I though that it would be pretty useless all things considered. I have been pleasantly suprised.

Provided I don't roll a misfire it has been doing really well recently. Killing 7 High Elf spearelves with a single shot, after hitting a unit of 20 that had the Shield of Saphery on it. It may not make it's points back, but it scares people.

What I really don't like about it is that you can only have one of these per unit of Gnoblars. Trappers or Fighters, but it is a very annoying restriction.

Leadbelchers

Leadbelchers are loads of fun.To be honest I'd take them anyway just for the throwaway line in the army book of;

"Boom, hur, hur..."

That single line has done more to enamour me to these Ogres. They are one of the most fickle units in the game. With a poor roll on the artillery dice you can explode the entire unit, but with an average roll your opponent will never under-estimate them again. I have managed to evaporate entire units with these guys. Managing to get the best out of these units at the moment is a bit of an issue.

When you fire the unit, you MUST do nothing with them AT ALL for an ENTIRE turn. No moving, combat, shooting as you reload the cannons. This is the main drawback with the unit. They are still equipped the same as naked Bulls (Ogre Club), but they do have light armour, for all the good it does...

At the moment the only thing that I have been really doing is having 3 Leadbelchers and one upgraded to a bellower. This gives them the chance to always attempt to rally at Ld8, since they can never be reduced to 25% and the bellower will be the last model removed. This also gives me a maximum damage output of 30 S4 armour piercing shots, hitting on 4+. Unfortunately the worst roll can kill the unit twice over... But for 175pts for that unit of 3 they are a nice unit to put on the flanks. If something charges you they are going to be damaged at least, turned into mist at best, maybe laughing at worst when your Leadbelchers explode.

They aren't as reliable as most players would like, but they are really nice in my experience. They have done more damage than not.

Yhetees

I don't like the model. Simple enough to start with. I really don't like the fact that if you take them, they are expensive, can't be buffed by Gut Magic and they are faster than the rest of the Ogres in the army so they are normally a very fragile glass hammer that will get killed due to them ignoring terrain.

I also don't like the fact that if you take the Greyback Pelt for your characters then you can't have the Yhetees in the army. So the only way to have a character supporting the Yhetees means you can't have them... Yeah... That's smart.

Aftermath

I think that there are maybe going to be two or three more posts on the Ogres. Rare, Items and Big Names then talking about the army in general. Maybe...

Regards,

English Pillock