Fantasy Battle Ogres vs Empire : Kings of War

With a lot of Historical games in the last few weeks and several more coming up this week, and looking for a quickish game I unpacked some of my Warhammer collection for a sadly rare outing in the dungeon.

Somewhere in the North the villages of the empire have been marauded by foul Ogres worse than that it appears the ogres have been touched by the evil gods of chaos. An Empire army under the renowned Knight Sir Stephen the Bold has been despatched to deal with the trouble !

Sir Stephen finds his foe in a suitably desolate location, a mixture of sharp impassable rocky outcrops, icy swamps and the decaying bones of giant creatures.

The stalwart men of the Empire, knights mixed infantry and they have managed to drag some cannons with them.

The ogres are a Brutish lot touched by chaos. There is some variation in the deformities but who can tell the difference, they have a lumbering giant with them looking for food and a mammoth  !

Given the short hours of light this far north both sides  charge forward

Crashing through the swamp the knights seek to knock the giant out of the fight, he staggers back but doesn’t fall

Annoyed by the pop pop of a unit of hand gunners the Mammoth charges across the field stomping them immediately, but he may now be trapped but the empire poleaxes ?

The giant is going in the swamp by at least two units of ogres and although the giant succumbs to his wounds limping away to recover, the Empire knights are wiped out and collected up for the stew pot.

The Mammoth is struggling agains the poleaxes, but does eventually break through, a pesky wizard is annoying the ogre Warlord !

General mayhem on the snowy field now, the Ogre armed with rudimentary ranged weapons can’t hit a thing,  it on the Empire right flank their superior ranged weapons bring down an entire horde of ogre caught out on the open snow, food for the crows (or other Ogres perhaps)

Luckily the empire cannons have very limited effect, half of the poleaxe troops have been squashed, the Sir Stephen the Empire General is floating about on his Griffin looking for a target, or is he just looking to stay alive ?

Although the empire has pushed back the Ogre left flank (not sure Ogres would really understand the concept of flanks ?) and are holding their ground there. The empire men are being butchered everywhere else, the swamp is literally turning red with Empire blood and the Mammoth is running a mock in the Empire artillery. The battle is up and the remaining Empire Forces must withdraw (go home for tea) the Ogres of course will have a veritable feast on or the soft squishy bit of men and horses left on the field.

We played using Kings of War which we are now much more familiar with rather than good old Warhammer Fantasy, but still we had a lot of fun. This Ogre army is one of my favourites as they are pretty much all converted in some way. Just getting them out of the box was a joy, and I found plenty of stuff not completed, needless to say we might see these have some attention on the painting table for one thing I never completed the bases which I will now put on the list.

I have a busy gaming week this week, with the Seven Years war Battle of Breslau on the table yesterday, we are off to Sicily on Wednesday WW2 and then ECW Friday……..and potentially a game Saturday as well. Having said that the rain has returned and back to cold weather so I need to stay indoors anyway.

Thanks as always for popping in 🙂

Matt