Monday Night Game Night: Blue Ogres

I hate fear. I hate Gut Magic. I hate Ogres.

If it weren't for fear and low-cost magic of panic-doom, I wouldn't mind them so much. Sadly, Ogres have these things in spades.

I played Zach and his Blue Ogres. His list was something like this:

1x Ogre Tyrant of Uber-Death-Dealing
3x Ogre Butchers
2-3x3 Ogre Bulls
2x2 Ogre Leadbelchers
2-3x4 Ogre Ironguts
1x25 Gnoblars
1x9 Gnoblar Trappers
1x Rhinox Rider
1x Ogre Maneater

Another game, another first turn Skitterleap (Zach rolled double ones in his dispel attempt). My Master Assassin, Queetik, took down one of his Butchers and a unit of Ironguts. Second turn saw him charging into the flank of an Irongut unit, butchering three Ogres and running down the fourth. Queetik then was left in charge range to his Maneater, and feeling like I could outrun him and then rally in a good position, I fled his charge, only to be caught. Oh well--them's the breaks!

My shooting took out his Rhinox Rider, but really failed to do much else. There was even one round of shooting where I managed to kill more of my own models than my opponents. Even my super-star Globadiers utterly failed me this game!

The worst moment of the game was when I had a unit of 3 Bulls on the flank surrounded with rats (two units of Gutter Runners and one unit of Night Runners). I declared charges that would have put me in his front and flank. Oh yeah, I also had an Assassin hidden in one of the units of Gutter Runners. I felt that I could have taken down this unit and then threatened his close-by Leadbelchers. Instead, I failed all three fear tests. All three. I was then charged by the Bulls, shot up by the Leadbelchers, and my great plan failed.

My units were overpowered by the strength of the Ogres, and I really don't know how to use my Clanrat blocks effectively. They are essentially a way to buy Ratling Guns, but when the damned Gut Magic takes out the guns before they can even fire... My blocks just kinda stood around, got charged, maneuvered into wierd positions, and then died. Well, only one unit died. The other survived the entire battle, but did absolutely nothing.

It was an interesting game, but I still feel like there are too many times where I am sitting there, not knowing what to do. I don't know how to use my blocks effectively, and I need to figure out how to protect my Ratling Guns better. Aside from that, my other units seemed to do what they were supposed to. Granted, my units didn't necessarily perform well, but they did what they were supposed to.

Nuts.

Eric informed me that there are two weeks left in the league, so maybe there is a chance that I stay atop the leaderboard, but I really doubt it. I think that I've been lucky with my wins thus far--gotta love the Skitterleap-O-Death--but I still like the idea of being at the top. Only time will tell if that continues!