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MeanGreenStompa wrote:Will there be any scope to take Ogre units as mercenaries in other armies?

I wouldn't hold my breath on it. They removed "two book" army potential from 40k, I can't see why they'd keep it in FB.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Will there be any scope to take Ogre units as mercenaries in other armies?

I doubt anything like Dogs of War will be seen anytime soon; however, I don't imagine anyone would have trouble with you fielding Ogres in a storm of magic game, especially the big gribblies that are coming out soon...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Will there be any scope to take Ogre units as mercenaries in other armies?

Sure, GW loves and supports Dogs of War wherever they can

Anung Un Rama wrote:The game is called Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I know what you're trying to say but the way WHFB works, especially if you take the whole formation thing into account, it's a game about battles, not skirmishes. And as far as I know, that's what makes it so interesting for so many people.
The only way they could've solved this would be by giving Ogres more of those units that don't have to stay in formation. (Forgot what they're called. It's "Plänkler" in German)

It is called skirmishers

Swordwind wrote:I was thinking that if one uber-pro converter could get their hands on one of the giant mammoth thingies, maybe they could make this:

A mechanical mammoth? Well, I guess Dwarves could use something cool like that.

Someone never watched power rangers...

those are phenomenal!

chaos0xomega wrote:Someone never watched power rangers...

Never on purpose.

Those new models are the worst I've seen from GW.

Hideous.

As an aside, a poster on Ogre Stronghold made an interesting point. If you look closely at the white thing (Thundertusk is apparently the name) the big grey armored things that everyone is assuming are tusks which would make it impossible to eat... those aren't tusks. One poster has suggested they may be mandibles, another has suggested they may be appendages like arms or somesuch. I'm thinking that they may be stone/metal (possibly even bone) 'weapons' for all intents and purposes that are worn like a sleeve and bolted onto whatever is underneath. If you look at the top of them, where they meet the furry bits, they appear to have metal studs/bolts/rivets/nails hammered into it.

But then why is there still fur connecting the tusks to the head if it is just bolted on?

Because the fur is part of the appendage to which the tusk is bolted on to. The better question is, if it is a tusk, then why is there fur there in the first place? The tusks are in no way attached to the head, instead it looks like they are coming out of the body in what could be described as the shoulder region, to me that suggests a limb/appendage rather than tusks/horns.

OMFG?? Do we really care if "imaginary" monsters can eat or poop for that matter? If an extra horn coming out of it's bum gave me an advantage rules wise, guess what? It would have an e tar horn coming out of it's bum. As a matter of fact, I hope their are extra horn/tusks on the sprue. I want to model as many as possible on their. Oh, and a lascannon on it's frigging head.

Lascannon? Everyone knows Ogres use multilazors!!!

All I wanted were some friggin' Stonetusks with friggin' Laser Beams attached to their head! Is that too much to ask for?

It's obvious - the Ogres give it a straw and feed it a nice hot bowl of chicken soup each morning. And this ends the discussion of the eating habits of the imaginary plastic monster, can we move on now?

They're clearly tusks. Why would they bolt on fake "battle tusks" and then attach little armour plates to the ends? Those "bolts" are calcified growths or whatever.

Why would you attach bolts/rivets to the tusk if it wasn't there to hold it on? You'll notice that the armor plates at the ends aren't bolted, they are tied on. Similar looking bolts/rivets can also be seen on other parts of the body, used to hold on armor plating in otherwise inconvenient areas. The bolts on the don't really add any sort of protection, so they are most likely being used to hold something on, and it most certainly does not appear to be armor.

Well, I can safely say I wasted cash on some Ogres a couple months ago.
They will now be Ebayd.

Puscifer wrote:Well, I can safely say I wasted cash on some Ogres a couple months ago.
They will now be Ebayd.

I would say it's a bit premature to be saying all of that; we haven't seen the army book yet after all.... I for one do not plan on purchasing any of the large monsters, they're expensive, time consuming to assemble and paint and will die during the first turn of shooting against half of the armies in my area. I'm fairly certain that we'll be able to build a viable army without having any of the large monsters and from the sounds of it, the cannon of the gods thing is just another stone thrower so why bother when most of us already have scraplaunchers anyway.

Puscifer wrote:Those new models are the worst I've seen from GW.

Hideous.

Your troll fu is weak old man.

jspyd3rx wrote:OMFG?? Do we really care if "imaginary" monsters can eat or poop for that matter?

Yes?

agnosto wrote:I for one do not plan on purchasing any of the large monsters.

Every one of my armies has large monsters in it. Well, except for my Bretonnians. King Liquor's feeling like the fat kid who always gets picked last for dodgeball.

Breotan wrote:Every one of my armies has large monsters in it. Well, except for my Bretonnians. King Liquor's feeling like the fat kid who always gets picked last for dodgeball.

Haha, poor guy!

Breotan wrote:Every one of my armies has large monsters in it. Well, except for my Bretonnians. King Liquor's feeling like the fat kid who always gets picked last for dodgeball.

Yeah, but when Tug-Of-War comes along he'll be in the first draft! And maybe for a brief moment he'll be happy about finally being accepted for who he is until he remembers he was only chosen first because he's fat and other kids have trouble moving him.

I'm not trolling, I think those models are hideous.

I was really looking forward to some nice new ogre sculpts and I have been let down.

Well if anyone in the uk wants to purchase a battalion and a unit of Bulls... PM me.

I'm going back to the 41st millennium.

Breotan wrote:

Puscifer wrote:Those new models are the worst I've seen from GW.

Hideous.

Your troll fu is weak old man.

It's now trolling to point out that a horrendous model is horrendous?

Is anything NOT trolling on Dakka?!

Well, Plantuan4th, if he were talking about the new Finecast Lammasu then no, it wouldn't be trolling. Somehow I don't think he was talking about that one though. Still, if he want's to dump his ogres, I'm sure there will be plenty of buyers.

I hope so lol.

One of the reasons I wanted to play Ogres was that a old colleague from GW HQ said the new OK stuff was huge and were all really awesome looking models.

I believe I've been rumbled :-(.

Breotan wrote:Well, Plantuan4th, if he were talking about the new Finecast Lammasu then no, it wouldn't be trolling. Somehow I don't think he was talking about that one though. Still, if he want's to dump his ogres, I'm sure there will be plenty of buyers.

But it's not new, they just released it in finecast; it's the same old sculpt that's in my closet, in metal form.

Platuan4th wrote:

Breotan wrote:

Puscifer wrote:Those new models are the worst I've seen from GW.

Hideous.

Your troll fu is weak old man.

It's now trolling to point out that a horrendous model is horrendous?

To be fair, this is the kind of thing that's frowned upon when posting in non-GW model threads.

Saying a model is "horrendous" is fine, so long as you go a bit deeper and explain what you don't like about the model. Even if it's just something as far as "There's just something that doesn't fit right about the model".

Simply saying that a model is "horrendous" isn't okay.

SkaerKrow wrote:Wow, those are hideous.

Wait, it's Ogre Kingdoms, isn't hideous the entire point?

Melissia wrote:

SkaerKrow wrote:Wow, those are hideous.

Wait, it's Ogre Kingdoms, isn't hideous the entire point?

Bingo! We have a winner.

Personally, the models are fine to me, except the cav looks underfed and I actually like the old scraplauncher a bit more than the new one...



VS.



Maybe it's the giant horns that just aren't doing it for me.