Games Workshop
The Ogres Are Coming …
….. and you had better hide!
The new year releases from Games Workshop are a bunch of real big boys who will certainly prove a tough nut to crack in the Warhammer World. The Ogres are described as Savage and brutal, …monsters that excel at two things: eating and fighting.
There are various tribes or clans of ogre, all of them particularly nasty, but including Bulls (or warriors), Gorgers, Leadbelchers, Butchers, Ironguts, and from the highest mountains the fearsome Yhetees. Each have their own particular strengths and weaknesses, and of course their own history and mythology. These can be studied in splendid detail in the Warhammer Supplement, published in the normal gloriously illustrated A4 softback, packed with superb examples of the painters art as well as the special rules for these fighters.
The ogres are often accompanied into action by a mob of Gnoblars, small, weasely creatures, a far cousin of the Goblin race and just as untrustworthy, vicious and cruel, with huge beaklike noses! These creatures are the slaves of the ogre race and regarded with utter contempt, although Ogres do enjoy watching the creatures die in battle, a sight they seem to find very funny.
Of course the models representing this bunch and unattractive thugs (though I am sure their mothers had some sort of feelings toward them) are superb. Received for review a unit of six "Bulls" who retail at £20. Precision moulded in grey plastic the models include a variety of weapons to enable you to create a huge range of individual models in your units.
To add further variety to your army GW have produced a select group of white metal models, and the Tyrant (retails at £18.00) that I have seen is a superbly hideous brute, armed with a spiked warhammer and studded warclub. His massive belly is encased in a thick leather belt, and his head in a grotesque helmet.
I have passed these chappies on to be painted and I look forward to posting their pictures as soon as I can. In all another excellent range from Games Workshop.
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