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Made in us
Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

Hey there. So, I enjoy list building, but I'll be the first to admit that I don't quite know what I'm doing. This is my first attempt at making a "big" list (1500 seems big to me) based off of thing I either own or can proxy.

Warrior Horde
-Warlord
-Mammoth
Shooter Regiment
-Captain
Shooter Regiment
-Captain
Warrior Regiment
-Mammoth

Looking at it, I feel like it leans too heavy on heroes and monsters, but that's hard to avoid if I want to use things I actually own. Thoughts?
   
Made in au
Screaming Shining Spear





Adelaide, Australia

At 1500 points, I think you've got too many points heavy heroes, and you don't have a hero that can go with the Mammoths.

I'd drop the captains and play them as standard bearers, use the saved points and cash in the warrior regiment to make two Boomer regiments, as they're your flexible all rounders, combine the two shooter regiments into one shooter horde, and turn the Warlord into a Captain on a chariot - with 60 points left over to spend on magic items. So

Warrior horde
Boomer regiment
Boomer regiment
Shooter horde
- brew of keen-eyeness
Standard Bearer
- war-bow of kaba
Standard Bearer
Mammoth
Mammoth
Captain on chariot
- Dwarven Ale
= 1500 points

It's a list with some flaws, obviously, but it's definitely playable, and you'll get a general idea of how to play Ogre infantry and Ogre cavalry.

As an example, I played my first 1500 point tournament in November and lucked my way to 3rd place with 2x warrior hordes, 2x boomer regiments, 1 shooter horde, 1 giant, and 3 standard bearers, plus some magic items.

When list building in general, iirc you should have one source of inspiring per 500 points. For Ogres, you need to balance your regiments/hordes, in that hordes are more survivable, but you can put very few on the table, while regiments allow more blocks of units to help defend each other from flanks, but are pretty soft in terms of morale. The other Ogre problems are lack of speed, and lack of middle ranged power if you don't have any goblins (Shooters are top end range units, hugely powerful, but expensive and as immobile as a war machine when shooting). You have to be on top of your tactical movement game to deal with more numerous opponents, but you hit like a freight train when you get it right.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2016/06/02 11:27:33


   
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Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos






Toledo, OH

 toasteroven wrote:
Looking at it, I feel like it leans too heavy on heroes and monsters, but that's hard to avoid if I want to use things I actually own. Thoughts?


I'd agree that you're too hero heavy. The mammoths are solid choices, but instead of a warlord and two captains, I'd run a Standard Bearer and Grokmagok, if you play in an environment that allows living legends. He's a complete beatstick, and while he costs as much as a warlord and a captain, you won't be sorry you have him.

The first thing I'd try to get your hands on would be Goblin scouts (wolfboys), as they fill a pretty big hole in the Ogre army. As NTRabbit said, boomers are also one of the better Ogre choices.

Still, there's nothing wrong with bricks of ogre warriors.
   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

Thanks! A lot to consider. I've done some revising based on your suggestions, still very open to ideas.

Warrior Horde
-Mammoth
-Captain on Chariot (the chariot is lego. Got to use what I have)
Shooter Horde
-Mammoth
-Army Standard
Boomer Regiment
-Army Standard
Warrior Regiment
Jar of 4 winds on shooters
Warbow of Kaba on army standar
   
Made in gb
Regular Dakkanaut





Personally I'd ditch the other magic items and go with brew of keen-eyedness on the shooters - it makes a real difference to their damage output and they already have a huge range.

If you have them I would also suggest taking some red goblin scouts. The ogre army is generally pretty small and having something fast and expendable to protect flanks and disrupt enemy shooting can be very useful.
   
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Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

I think I actually had the brew's mixed up in my mind. The keen eye one is the one I wanted, thanks.

No goblin scouts, not yet at least.
   
 
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