KoW- Ogres vs Dwarves

 A great game of KoW last night vs Gordon’s latest  list- mobile imperial dwarves. 6 regiments & 4 troops of Brock Riders, 2 lords on brocks and 2 lords on beasts. 14 drops and everything moving at 8”.

I had made some changes to my Ogres, adding a horde of splitters (I liked Nick’s spitter horde in his Goblins at GOATcon), a chariot troop and Slashy McSlashface a Goblin Slasher. The mission was push.

The game started well for the ogres with my taking off 2 troops and a regiment of Brocks in turn 2 (thanks to an ogre warrior regiment getting hits and 8 wounds to take out one troops single handedly) but the canny dwarves came back- taking out my sergeant then next turn.

In the centre the game devolved into a series of bloody melees. I managed to “win” the right flank, or so I thought, thanks to the intervention of my Boomers and in the centre a devastated bully shrugging off the wounds meant the siegebreakers were set up for an unexpected rear change on another brock regiment and the ogres were feeling confident of a long overdue victory!.

Still on the left flank the brock lord and a couple of regiments played smart clashing with the hunters and the chariot troop. In the end the brock lord abandoned the brocks to their fate and took off with a token to claim 2 VPs and threw his followers in to the fray to chaffed up any possible pursuit.

After sterling work the token carrying goblin spitters came to a messy end being charged in a swamp by 2 units of brocks- even hitting on 5s 78 attacks wasn’t going to be fun for the gobbos and they were crushed. Then on turn 6 Gordon used his last brock riding lord to chaff up a warrior horde racing to the rescue and grabbed the token formerly owned by the goblins to take the win.

Deployment

Turn 1- the dwarves advance

Ogres prepare for the onslaught

Dwarven brock rider troop crests the hill and becomes target of the goblin spitters and slasher. 

On the right the warriors advance to form a screen

The new slasher waits.

Brock riders smash into the slasher- the combat lasts a couple of rounds. 

The ogres get lucky with a snakes eyes nerve which saves the bully and seals the fate of the brock regiment. 

Using the wood for cover the ogres hold the left flank and make progress in the centre. 

The battle devolves into a number of skirmishes.

On the left flanks the brocks attack the hunters but do little damage thanks to being hindered and entangled. 

On the right the spitters face off vs two regiments. 

Things are looking gri for the spitters

Even with terrain the goblins are overwhelmed. 

They had dropped the token to prevent the dwarves taking it. 

Turn 6- the brock lord acts as chaff to slow up the ogre warrior horde. The seigebreakers have an objective and the brocklord at the bottom left is about to scurry off to safety. 

End of turn 6 the warriors advance after killing the brocklord the warriors fall just short of following through to the brock regiment. 

Result: 4-2 to the dwarves

A fun, close game and Gordon never took his eye off the ball (the scenario objectives). A damn fast dwarf army that is for sure! We will be having a rematch soon vs their Free dwarves brock riding cousins.

Well played once again Gordon