Spring Offensive Today

Well went on Vacation recently and got then fed into the shark tank as one of my fellow gamers neutered me at 1,000 pts. We played Blood and glory but with consistent shooting and magic the High elves actually took down my Hero general turn 3. I crumbled by turn 4 and shook the guys hand. VC are not very stable at 1k. Personnally you can't get all the tools you need with them and main units are way to small. Though Brandon only had 2 bolt throwers, a level 2, and 2 archer units, with a scouting unit as well it was enough to erase 3 unit of chaff in the first few turns only allowing me one dire wolf unit to charge, in the flank. My Terrorgeist was out of screem range because he deployed far enough back. So unfortunetly I have decided to change my list for Acon for the friday 1k lists. Other than that we have also been working on the TT list and finished the last movement tray. I'll have pics this month. Lastely, the bloomington crew is heading to East Peoria today to try out 2200 pt lists and play 3 games at the local convention, http://gameroomil.com/springoff//. Washington's 'Game Room' is sponsoring it and we should be heading there is we get prizes. We will be bringing Lizardmen, Vampire Counts, and Ogre Kingdoms. Pics and reports to come. Have a great spring and hope to see everyone at Adepticon.

Ogres Update and Practice Games

Well its the Middle of march. I have been up to some things these past 2 weeks and steadily playtesting team tournament games. I finished painting and molding the last part of my cobblestone 40mm bases so that all of my units have matching scenic bases. This brings the army a little further out asthetically and brightens up the bases. Secondly, I purchased some new space wolfs: wolf packs in their new box of 5 - 1 week ago. My goal with them is to have them for sabretusks. They are big enough and look better than chaos warhounds from 6th edition. My new side project(because we all have one) is going to be Dwarfs. However, I am trying to go for a marauder style army from late 88'-93'. The biggest challenge I am faced with is acquiring models. I need good trades or sales and all of these figs are OOP. So the challenge will begin. The concept will be a special deployment army(well we'll see how far it goes before I cave and make a min/maxed list :). I have had a couple games recently. After the CCGS tournament and running 1-2 I played Stevo in Blood and Glory and took a win versus his Empire. I also played another local Brando against an experimental VC list that was very fast and another win there in Dawn Attack. Another game I played was a battleline team game versus Brando and Aarono which was another win for Steve and I(I think this one may have been before CCGS's tourny). And Just last night played Aarono's Lizards and got a lucky win - BR to follow. So a Lucky streak but we'll see if it pans through.

Down with the Ogres...

Well it was a sad day at the CCGS tournament last Sat. Not only did I only go 1-2 but our other 2 Bloomington crew did just as bad. We had terrible dice, bad deployments, and no luck when it came to our own circumstances.

My games went as follows: The ogres caved Went 1-2 Game 1 was battleline vs. Ray's Dark elves. It took me 2 turns/ 4 rounds of combat to put 3 wounds on a hydra with 12 ogres and 2 mournfangs. My dice were hitting 30-40% of the time and wounding the same when it should of been 50%. Same trouble against infantry with ManEaters. His dreadlord with Reverse ward save charged my ironblaster and I lost by 1, his charge lol. I lost by about 320 minor to Ray. The only thing I look back at now is putting my BSB in with my 12 ogres so on turn 2 when I charged his Hydra I could have done more wounds to the silly thing. But that would have only made the game a tie. Potentially finishing out 6 turns instead of 4 would have helped to. Game 2 vs. Jeem's DoC. Lost again, dawn attack and this was all deployment. I didn't have but 1 chaff unit on the left flank meanwhile I had 1600 pts on the right. All of his was on his left flank, he proceeded to steem down the middle, building blocked the center and he steamrolled his juggernaut unit and 5x7 deep bloodletters into my Ironguts my characters bailed the turn before 2 and I sacrificed them because I knew it would be over. I only killed abotu 200pts in the game. His flamers didn't get less than average hits ever and he did kill 6/7 leadbelchers and 2 dogs before getting into combat with them. I even backed up to the table edge trying to avoid the hammer units. Got to turn 3 and he had a Major victory, another instance if I would have deployed further back or avoided combat more since players only seemed to be getting in average amounts of turns instead of a full 6. Game 3 won against Kevin's VC. I cornered deployed in a corner deployment scenario. He took a charge against my dog and the dog fled allowing me a triple charge on the 40 skeleton/Vlord/WK BSB. Pop. Then reform after crumble and take counterchargers. This was a quick game and we were just messing around. I was done overthinking and thats why I corner deployed. Alex. G. O&G got Best Overall Tom M. Dwarfs got Best General Ryan G. Ogresgot best Best Sports Dave King Dwarfs got best painted Good time and next we'll be doing Spring Offensive in March and Adepticon in April. Hopefully a better show down the road!

Blargh! Morning Update

Well I have been up to alot. Painting mostly so here we go! I coverted and painted up Rhinox chariots for our Orc and Goblin TT with Ogres. Then rebased, washed, and painted 10 boar boyz for the same purpose. Furthermore, modified and finished a Finecast Mangler, kinda like it. Then I painted up some Trolls(old stone metal) which are coming along nicely though not finished. Finally I converted up several hexwraiths from old Knights Errants that a friend gave me a long time ago, Thanks Paul! Enjoy the picks. Going to Springfield, Illinois for a tournament and sounds like a god turnout so up next will be a battle summary report and info on how the list did, OrcOgres of Course.


Scratch built Rhinox Chariots, stone chariot bases



10 boar boyz recoated and finished tray to

mangler squig, horn added

but view, goblin needs couple more highlights

Hexwraiths x7 jumping over and through a wall piece

HxWraiths converted from old Knights errants not to shabby

Some trolls that need based, everything needs some grass!

TT practice Game

Orcs and Ogres Win! Played a Friday night versus 2 locals and their Acon TT lists. They had Minos x5 with hero, 2 tuskigor chariots, and 20 man gor unit and his teammate had VC with 1 Vamp lord on H

ellsteed, TG, VG with 2 units of 3, and 4 units of dire wolves. We spread out like our normal deployment with my LB and bulls on the right flank and Sabretusks spread out. Steve put both of his chariots on the very far flank and boars/orcs on the left. The right flank was boring with the TG screaming at a chariot and killing it but then getting counterfired by leadbelchers. The bulls charged the VG breaking through but then just casting MM and buffs for the rest of the game. Steve's flank, Left, saw more action with charges, holds, countercharges and crumbling. The TG finally made its way around and rear charged the Orcs with only 26/35 left. Steve held and we reformed making the TG crumble. The other unit of VG fell to trolls who made reg. saves. We avoided the Mino unit(which costed 600+ points) and probly saved me from collapsing the right flank where my main points were. Good practice and Steve and I may alter the list a little bit more, we didn't use the Ring but the extra leadbelcher came in every shooting round. We could be set on the lists for now...maybe a couple more practice games and we'll see.

Terrain Video Youtube

An intro to terrain, Styrofoam and building displays. Enjoy! and Comment on Youtube!

Tomb Kings by Andrew K.

February Army of the Month

A very clean TK army, good job AK! More pics here: http://iwfb.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7