Ogres are scary...

Had a fun battle vs ogres tonight. Fun for me anyway ^^

In my relatively short gaming history with the Chaos Warriors I have to say that I never had them actually do well. Yes I managed to win - sometimes through guile sometimes through clever positioning but never through directly winning combat... And definitely never before via wiping out the whole of the opponent's army...

In any case a short report:

I get the 1st turn and once again fail to get Hellshriek as one of my spells. Marauder Horsemen ride forwards as outriders and prepare to spend their time irritating the enemy. In the first turn everything I have (pretty much runs forward ^^ and magic does nothing to speak of... Well except causing 16 wounds (o.o) on a gnoblar unit. Still they passed their panic test and stayed.

The warhounds and marauders happily screening the army from any charges that could occur. The Charges do in fact occur. His massive unit of Ironguts (6x3 with a Battle Standard Bearer and Skrag o.o) charge at my dogs who held and a unit of his Ogre Maneaters charging one unit of marauder horsemen who fled.

Dogs obviously died. Very quickly. No surprise there... And he rolls for overrun aaaaand gets far enough to reach my marauder unit... Which was almost according to plan. Would be better if he didn't but "it'll doooo".

In my turn 1st thoughts " LETS HAVE EVERYTHING CHARGE THAT MASSIVE UNIT!" then clarity and sense restored its place and I actually looked at the battlefield to see that my marauder unit can charge the giant. Marauders with flails I thought, and with a character too! shoooould do it... So they charge. Being slaaneshi (all army is in fact slaanesh themed) they charge...

Marauder Horsemen unit 1 charges the remaining gnoblars (all 4 of them) and then the fun charges (Unit of knights with BSB hero) and a unit of Warriors (altho risky with a Sorc Lord) charge in the front and the flank respectively.

Magic phase doesn't go all that well. Well Lore of slaanesh does squat all to ogres anyway...

In combat was pretty much where this game was going to be decided. (This is turn 2 of 6 by the way). So being chaos I have to challenge (with a champion who gets quickly mauled by Scrag) and and the knights have a go at ogre iron guts. Killing two along with two ranks of chaos warriors (and that's 7 wounds against toughness 5 ogres yuck). He kills all my Knights (but not the BSB) and causes a few wounds on the other 2 units. a total of 8. Still having had the flank charge and having had 3 ranks and same banners and BSB's as him I win by two. He fails his leadership even after a re-roll and gets caught and the whole unit is gone.

Well after that it was a matter of technicalities. Altho to make it funnier the marauders with flails cause 5 wounds on the giant who the Shouts at them and they flee and die...

But frankly after the death of the ironguts and scrag it was really the matter of moping up the rest of his army. And I even had a full unit of Knights left spare! :)

At the end of the game I have lost a unit of knights and 2 units of marauders and he had nothing left on the table. How effing rare...

There you go a much condensed battle report which hopefully wasn't too boring to read :)

I will post some pictures a little later tonight ^^

P.S. All pictures linking to GW website are the property of GW and the rest of the bla bla. I don't own them etc etc. Let it be known that I'm only linking them as I haven't got ogres of my own.