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Kroothawk wrote:

DukeRustfield wrote:This is a fantasy land of course, but just pointing out that no beasts of burden were really used in warfare.

You are aware that horses carrying a sack and horses carrying a rider are the same species, right?
Maybe google the word cavalry, if you don't believe that horses were used for carrying warriors. And even pack animals have an important role in warfare at least until WW2.

Concerning Mournfangs, a Rhino like animal is more believable to carry an Ogre than a Hyena looking animal. Even visually, the Ogre balancing the Hyena's back doesn't look right.

I don't think there is any reason we can't have ogres riding both.

I like my Medium cavelry Mournfangs and my Heavy Cavelry Rhinox Riders.


the Mournfangs would be scouting around on the flanks and hitting the enemy where weak. the Rhinox would be in the main battleline and would smash the enemy head on.

Except they still gotta carry Ogres. It's not like one or the other would be some pony express running the Kentucky Derby. They'd both have to be insanely strong with massive stamina. Unless one batch was just carrying gnoblars.

Again, high fantasy can do what it wants. Use whatever models are kewlest.

DukeRustfield wrote:Except they still gotta carry Ogres. It's not like one or the other would be some pony express running the Kentucky Derby. They'd both have to be insanely strong with massive stamina. Unless one batch was just carrying gnoblars.

Again, high fantasy can do what it wants. Use whatever models are kewlest.

they dont strictly have to carry ogres. i for one would consider converting the mournfang to carry smaller, less mature ogres or even crack teams of gnoblars. They look like they would be much more suitable for a lighter load anyways

tarnish wrote: or even crack teams of gnoblars. They look like they would be much more suitable for a lighter load anyways

That sounds like a great idea for a gnoblar centered army.

Flashman wrote: In WD this month, JJ said Rhinoxes were supposed to be beasts of burden and thus not widely used for warfare.

It would help Jervis look less dumb if the same White Dwarf didn't feature a new plastic kit which makes two different war machines pulled by a Rhinox.


So, not only is the Rhinox the only animal that the Ogres use for their war machines (making it as about widely used in warfare as anything else in the Ogre Kingdoms book), but those Rhinox have attacks! Why was it that Rhinox weren't in the army, Jervis?

Well, they are young Rhinox that pull carts. The fact they got 3 attacks is a bit weird for a beast of burden. But the ogre book makes them pretty consistently a big dumb herd animal.

Reminds me of Blazing Saddles. Yes, he rode this. But it went like 2 miles an hour and you got to impression if it didn't feel like walking it wasn't going to walk. They made them move at 6 speed, which was really only to make them not suck compared to regular Ogres. But the idea of a half-blind snow cow moving the speed of a horse, consistently, is a bit much.



Oh, and it reminds me of Tropic Thunder. On the DVD commentary they were saying the water buffalo did pretty much whatever it wanted to do.

You know the book has paragraphs about the insane danger a herd of Rhinox poses. They actually give surviving a Rhinox stampede as a possable reason a guy with get the Deathcheater bigname.

Rhinox may be vegetarians, but so are things like Elephants and Horses. a Warhorse like a Shire or Percheron is NOT something you want angry at you, especially if its been trained to bite and kick people deliberatly. the danger Elephants pose is greater then Tigers, Sharks, and Lightining combined. Rhinos are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa.

Rhinox, which are around 20 feet long and 10 feet tall at the shoulder judging by the size of ogres, are probably clocking in several tons in addition to having horns long as a man is tall. combined with the tendency to charge everything that even might be a threat...

Grey Templar wrote:You know the book has paragraphs about the insane danger a herd of [STAMPEDING] Rhinox poses.

Emphasis and word added. They also mention gnoblars, the sissiest sentient mobs around other than snotlings, poke them and prod them into doing what they want. And Ogres beat them around the head with a club to do the same thing. They're oxen with bad attitudes and bad vision.

You don't get in front of a cow stampede either and cows are about the dumbest, least offensive animals in existence. Rhinox-tipping would probably be a sport of young Ogres.