Ogres - A Nicon Variant

Over the weekend I had two games with my Ogres, looking at a list to use potentially at NiCon. The NiCon restricts Ogres to one Ironblaster and six Mournfang (go figure) so my usual list requires some changes.

Essentially, I took:

Slaughtermaster
Firebelly
BSB

8 Bulls - FC
8 Ironguts – FC and Std of Discipline

6 Maneaters
2 Mournfang
4 Mournfang – Std, Muso, Dragonhide Banner
3x 1 Sabretusks

Ironblaster

The first game was Battleline versus Matt’s two Dragon List. It was pretty much over as a contest when a Fireball removed his archers and a cannonball his Lion Chariot on Turn 1. Thirty spearmen with Level 2 Mage panicked off the board (buy a BSB, people). From there my Maneaters monstered a unit of Dragon Princes who were left with no alternative but to charge them and the big Mournfang unit went through another block of 30 spear. The big Mournfang block was charged by two dragons, removed their riders and eventually fell taking the Star Dragon with them. The other dragon flapped off to lick its wounds.

In the second I played Mike’s Lizards in Watchtower. He gave up putting anything in the tower so I scouted Maneaters and they occupied tower turn one. Mike’s Slaan was Ethereal and I managed to charge him with the big Mournfang who hoped the magical attacks from the banner would bring him down. Unfortunately (for me) Mike saved all four wounds and the resulting break test. He used the Shadow lore attribute to swap the Slaan out. At this point Mike’s luck turned bad and my Mournfang survived a charge from a Saurus blook. Mike had a great magic phase set up – effectively 11 dice to four – but failed to cast the first spell rolling double 1. I was able to mop up the three saurus blocks and Mike was left with a Slaan and a unit of skinks. I thought Mike’s luck abandoned him at a critical time and that make the result more straightforward.

I’m not sure I like the list particularly. My big Mournfang unit is 350 points which seems a lot. With the Maneaters also coming in over 300 points, I have four units that cost 300 or more. Outside these units my army comes to a total of 379 points. That makes it difficult to get points out of in combat but vulnerable to big spells. I still don’t see an answer versus Warriors and I suspect VC might cause it problems, especially a Scream list.