Landsknecht Ogres (Part 1)

 Imperial Ogres, which are essentially quasi-civilized Ogres who live and ally with citizens of the Empire, have had models in existence now since the late 1980s. In recent times GW has re-released some of these old miniatures with new rules for use in The Old World. They are currently available on GWs website in two sets of three for $60 each. The ogre with the light Cannon is available by himself for $32.75. For about the same price as that one guy with the cannon, you can get a box of nine Imperial ogres with the light cannon (and a lot of other options) from Wargames Atlantic.  

The Box

My only complaint is that Wargames Atlantic simply eschews the inclusion of assembly guides inside their kits. It's made their construction a bit more challenging than I had anticipated.

But fun never-the-less!

The first few guys I assembled.

A rank of Light Cannons.

I used them in a recent game and despite how I feel the light cannons should work, I found that the Ogre Pistol got the better results and the double-handed weapon was simply amazing. 

In battle. 

I decided to build up the rest of the models in the box with double-handed weapons and pistols. This now gives be a fairly good mix of options from one boxed set. As we are currently playing (here locally) low point value games, this set will go far in that regard. 

The whole box assembled. 

As you can see they're all primed, their bases are base coated and all their flesh has had a coat of Fyreslayer Flesh Contrast Paint. Painting these chaps are going to be a labor of love I think, so I will be poking at them over the next few months. Meanwhile, there are enough bits left over that I can, and likely will, use some of them on my TOW Ogres Kingdom army when I get around to it.