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Can it be done i have a 1500pt force im looking to expand i like the idea of ogryns they seem like a good ccounter charge unit your vets are gonna get charged and having a unit ti bail them out would be good thing

Ogryns are really nice units against certain armies, but generally any dedicated hand to hand unit will beat them. So if you are building an all comers list I would skip them

Ogryns are good, but, you realy have to work with them. I have found the best way to use them is the following. However, it is a bit of a point sink. I only do this at 2,000 points and higher.

Commissar Yarrick
Ogryns x5
Chimera w/ dozer blade, multi laser, hull flamer, heavy stubber.

With yarrick, you get to re roll missed hits on the charge, so, that is 21 dice with the ability to re-roll at strength 6. The trick is getting them able to charge. I have once tried a ten man Ogryn squad on foot, and, they will get shot up before they can do anythying.

With all that said, I support ogryns, and, hope you find a way to use them. They are a fun unit that is underplayed (mainly due to dollar cost and point cost).

Ogryns in an air cav army? I'd certainly love to see a Valkyrie modelled with a squad of ogryns leaping out...

Ogryns can't actually board Valkyries or Vendettas so an air cav army based on them wouldn't work. I can't remember exactly where it says they can't, it might be under the Valkyrie entry in the Guard codex.

Right under the transport section of the entry it says it can't carry Ogyrn.

Clang wrote:Ogryns in an air cav army? I'd certainly love to see a Valkyrie modelled with a squad of ogryns leaping out...

you and me both!

As for the OP, it's going to be tough. As mentioned, you need a lord commissar to make this work out, and orgyn get better the larger sized squad they're in. I wouldn't run anything less than a vendetta, lord commissar with carapace and fist, and 5 ogryn, which comes to a whopping 450 points. It can be effective, but you've got to be willing to throw down 1/3 of your points on this or wait until you can do whatever else you were doing has room to breathe with more points.

A list with 3x plasma stormies, 4x vendettas, and a posse of 5 ogryn with a punchy lord commissar (or perhaps a primaris psyker instead), would probably work at this points level, if you played it right.

Plus, I guaran-damn-tee that no opponent you'll face will have ever seen ogryn piling out of a vendetta before...

Is that because its not allowed?