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Some pictures of the upcoming Ogre Kingdoms models.
Scrap Launcher


Some kind of Cat Riding Cavalry. (Ignore the image name)


Ironblaster


Stonehorn 1


Stonehorn 2


Not sure what this is called (I think its a Mammox) but it looks great. I love the empire dude dangling off the back. It looks to be a 2 part kit with the Stonehorn above in a similar vein to the new Tomb Kings Necrosphinx kit.


Now if those are all plastic I'll have to hide my wallet....

Nice all 'round! I could take or leave the rhino things and cat things, but the other stuff is pretty sexy.

Personally, I'd be surprised if the Stonehorn thingie and Mammox whatsit weren't plastic, and the Scrap Launcher / Ironblaster looks suspiciously like one of those multi-option kits they've been making so many of lately.

I like the StoneHorn.
I like the new Ogre helmets.

Everything else looks like a kids toy.

I like them but I will not buy them

loving the stonehorn, not so impressed with the rest. I really dont like the way GW have taken the fantasy creatures. All the storm of magic stuff, as well as these cat things and rhinox, look like cartoons, and ugly ones, at that.

Admiral-Badruck wrote:I like them but I will not buy them

Good man! Stick to your principles!

I agree with Me_in_Japan. The stonehorn looks good, but the others do look like toys. Moreover, I think they kill some of the theme of the current Ogres book. It looks more like a pre-internal combustion engine, post-apocalyptic biker gang on boar-hunting dog hybrids and half-starved mammoths rather then a "barbarian horde". The biker gang thing doesn't hit within "FB" (It reminds of the movie King Arthur [Yuk!]), and it has already been done to death in some many genres in my opinion.

me_in_japan wrote:I really dont like the way GW have taken the fantasy creatures. All the storm of magic stuff, as well as these cat things and rhinox, look like cartoons, and ugly ones, at that.

job wrote:It looks more like a pre-internal combustion engine, post-apocalyptic biker gang on boar-hunting dog hybrids and half-starved mammoths rather then a "barbarian horde".

You know an OK army usually has about 30 ogre models in it right? Hardly a 'horde'. The infantry and gnoblars will be staying the same and the big things will be one or two per army in the same way as Aracknarok Spiders, Dragons and Hellpit Abominations. Given that they are based on Mongols, who used a lot of cavalry, it makes sense that they get more mounted and mobile units.
I think a lot of it has to do with the painters at GW doing this work. Some of the Storm of Magic Beasties look cool as a model, but the painter has done them in unnatural (as in 'not realistic' as opposed to 'not a real animal') colours which give them that cartoon-y vibe. In a similar way to the plastic minotaurs, I think with the right paint job these things would really come alive. However, I like the colours on the Ogre models above.
My only complaint about the above models is that the cavalry look like they are riding on something strapped to the cat's back rather than actually riding the cat, which is too small for the size of the rider anyway.

The cat things are probably new versions of the Sabretusks (IIRC) which were in the previous edition.

I have to agree with Prime though, these guys are only the new, presumably, plastic special and rare choices for the OKs, not any theme changing core unit etc.

I don't think the overall theme of the Ogres will be much affected either. They were pretty comical after all. It's the only army book that I don't have but I do remember a lot of eating as a theme and they also had/have the only troops that are worse than Goblins and Zombies, in their gnoblars.They could be played seriously, and for at least a month or two way back when, competitively too. They will also benefit greatly from some of the new edition rules too. Won't make me buy 'em though.

@Prim: 'Too small for the size of the rider' eh?

What I meant by the "horde" thing is that they were originally themed after Turko-Mongoloid nomadic culture, both geographically in the fantasy world and with their imagery. The main storyline, too, is similar with all the looting and destroying civilization thing.