WHFB The Empire vs. Ogre Kingdoms

I ended up going to the local GW store down the street and played a pick up game pitting my 2.5K Empire army against a 2.5K Ogre Kingdoms army. The Ogre army was heavy on powerful close combat troops - which I had not experienced before in my one-week long WHFB experience. Here is a shot of the Empire troops with the Demigryphs and Great Cannon just out of the picture on the left and right flanks. This time I was able to get my Empire General mounted on an Imperial Griffon on the table.

Early on, my opponent focused his cannon fire on my Steam Tank and put it out of action by Turn 2. He said he hated Steam Tanks - well it appeared so. My Knights, with an Empire Captain, foolishly got too close to the Ogre's Stonehorn. He ended up charging into the Knights and after defeating them in Combat, pursued them after a failed Break test - and overtook them!

The left flank had the Ogre's Mournfang cavalry hit the Demigryphs in the flank. After couple of rounds of combat, the lone Demigryph survivor actually returned to take them in their flank and broke and over took them after winning that round of Combat!

The center saw a lot of back and forth action with the Hurricanum successfully sending some bad weather to some of the Ogre units, as well as adding Portents of Battle to nearby units which give them +1 to Hit in combat. The War Altar and Arch Lector riding it gave nearby units Hatred and successuly cast Hammer of Sigmar prayers - which gave them to Wound re-rolls. With my die rolling they all came in very handy!

The Ogre Tyrant challenged the Empire General, which was of course accepted. After a couple of rounds of combat, the General was killed, but the loyal Griffon remained to take on all comers. As a consolation, the Hurricanum defeated and broke an Ironguts unit. The Empire Swordsmen did well by first defeating and overtaking a Gnoblar unit and then hitting a Leadbelchers unit in the flank. The pesky Leadbelchers were defeated and overrun on the pursuit.

Thanks to the warhorses and Arch Lector, the War Altar was able to kill off the Stonehorn in Turn 4. We called the game at the top of Turn 5 - I still had the bottom of 5, but my opponent had to leave to attend to family business. No problem as I learned a lot again, and surprising killed or chased off a lot of the enemy to boot.