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So yeah, the title says it all, just wondering what to buy with the battleforce, any cool unit I should look into?

Darksilva wrote:So yeah, the title says it all, just wondering what to buy with the battleforce, any cool unit I should look into?

Two battleforces will give you all the troops you need, plus a few options.

Mournfangs are rather good, as are Ironblasters.

After that it's a matter of personal taste.

Thank you sir, mournfangs do look like sexy beasts, might get a box of those

Darksilva wrote:Thank you sir, mournfangs do look like sexy beasts, might get a box of those

Or two.. or three... or four....

Definitely look at getting some mournfangs. It's got the point in some of the smaller games I've been playing (1k and under) I've stopped fielding them against my opponents' skaven and orcs since they were destroying everything they came into contact with.

another question. Do you think it is easy to make effective conversions from normal ogre bodys into the lords and heroes like the butcher and firebelly?

yes, its VERY easy to convert character out of regular Ogres.


If you want to seriously run Mournfangs you need 2 boxes so you can have a unit of 4.

units of 2 are just a support unit. 4 are a serious threat.


2 Ironblasters is basically mandatory if you want a killer list.

I typically run 4 Mournfangs and 2 Iblasters in every list. Sometimes I run 2 units of 4 Mournfangs if I'm feeling particularly mean.




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A Butcher/Slaughtermaster is amazingly easy to convert from the battallion box.

Mine had a couple of other bits since I'd already bought the butcher kit but at it's simplist all you need to do is make a green stuff apron for one of the bulls then use the bellower arm cut cut off then reglue the hand so the palm is facing the open mouth of the bellower then put something in it since the butchers eat their spell ingredients.

Ok, so I ordered thebattalion and a box of mournfang cavalry, anyone has got an idea for, lets say, a 1000 pts list?

Honestly, if you're looking to get into Ogres on the cheap, you can get a 2500 point force pretty easily out of 2 Battalions, 2-4 boxes of Mournfangs, and 2 Ironblasters.

I can't really give advice for small games since I don't think the game scales well, but look to get a few good-sized units of Ogres and Ironguts (or a single all-consuming Irongut Horde), some Mournfangs and/or Leadbelchers for support, 3 Sabertusks, and 2 Ironblasters. Beyond that, there's room for variation, but you're pretty much going to need the above-mentioned models regardless.

I've run a few small games against dwarves, orcs and skaven lately of between 1000pts and 1600pts lists I've been running recently were:
List A (1k)
Slaughtermaster (normally with lore of beasts)
Bruiser with Heavy Armour
Level 2 Butcher with lore of the Maw
6 x Bulls with Iron fists & full command
4 x Iron guts with full command and dragonhide banner
12 x Gnoblars

List B (1250)
Level 4 Slaughtmaster (with hellheart)
Level 2 Butcher
6 x Bulls with IF, standard and musician
4 x Ironguts with full command and dragon hide banner
scraplauncher
2 x sabretusks
2 x mournfang with ironfist and heavu armour

There was also a shooting based list consisting of bruiser with brace of pistols, 10 x gnoblars with trappers, 6 x bulls, 4 x ironguts, a scraplauncher, a ironblaster, 4x lead belchers and 3 x maneaters (all with brace of pistols) but that list was of very mixed success compared to the ones that mournfangs and butchers/slaughtermasters featured in. It only won one out of four games and the only things the iron blaster managed to kill was in it's last game where it took out a doomwheel and a warplock engineer.