why do people want ogre kingdoms?

[blood_guts]

I'm just curious what people are so pumped for. I watched a lore video and they just seem like fat people riding fat stuff. Is there something I'm missing? Couldn't you just play throgg? I'm not really particularly enthused for cathay or kislev but I guess I'd take them over ogres?

[Private Pyle]

Watch some ogre kingdoms lore or go play some more high elves.

[Konstantin]

I like to play Ogre because they are big guys riding beasts and they are less but highquality troops. I mean every Ogre is technically a cavalry unit without the disadvantage of cavalry.

[Xenos]

They have Ice Age megafauna, just like Lizardmen have dinosaurs. That's quite cool.

[Kapika96]

Why do people like elves? They just seem like pointy eared people.

Why do people like dwarfs? The just seem like short people.

[blood_guts]

Originally posted by Toby Larone:

Originally posted by NCP blood_guts:

I like monstrous units, but wouldn't you guys rather make an army of dinosaurs vargulfs and minotaurs? Ogres are thematically just bit fat people that eat all the time with fat magic.

Though they do apparently have some really hillbilly tanks which seem cool.

The thing is out of all the options listed none of them bring what ogers bring. You can make an army of Krogxigors but that is gonna consist of exactly two sorts of units with both being melee bruisers that aren't that different in applications.

Ogers bring a variety for monsterous infantry we haven't seen before and that is what makes them interessting. That is what makes them unique. Its like bretonnia and the sheer variety of knights it brings. Yhea you can just play with reiksguard and demigryph knights but that isn't the same as having the options bretonnia has for the cav game.

This is an interesting idea but I just wonder if it isn't already a thing with some other factions.
Norsca has big trolls, big casters in fimir, and big cavalry type stuff in mammoths

tomb kings have big boys in their sphinxes, big infantry in ushabti, and big archers in bone giants

Granted fat dudes carrying cannons as guns sounds cool but I think I'd rather reanimate them as vampire coast than listen to them fart as living things.

[blood_guts]

I like how 90% of responses are telling me to go play elves or high elves as though I don't almost exclusively use monstrous units. lol

[blood_guts]

Originally posted by Xenos:

They have Ice Age megafauna, just like Lizardmen have dinosaurs. That's quite cool.

Now that's actually a good point. But am I going to get 70ft sloths?

[Dagy47]

Originally posted by NCP blood_guts:

I like how 90% of responses are telling me to go play elves or high elves as though I don't almost exclusively use monstrous units. lol

its more about the "if you dont like weird fatty faction, go play some "vanila" elf faction..."

in all honesty, you should just wait for when ogres arrive in the game, maybe you will be suprised how much they have to offer and will actualy be inclined to try them out (or you will love to fight against them, since you appareantly love to beat fat ppl...)

[SSJPrince]

Throgg isn't even the same as an Ogre Faction considering Throgg is surrounded by tiny ice men lol. Beastmen/Orcs would be most comparable with Giant stacks but that isn't the same thing, the Ogre fans just want what is hopefully a different experience than that I just mentioned.

[Doomier Guy]

Because they're one of the main 8th edition races?

[bearfieldlee]

Originally posted by Tenshin51:

Originally posted by General Nuclear:

Because they are op as heck, Not to forget that it's fun to play as crazy giants.

Giants in Totalwar game are underwhelming due to range units.

They are underwhelming in melee too.

[The_Count]

because they and the chaos dwarves were left out, why do people enjoy certain things? because they do, i feel a bit sad that they didn't include them in warhammer total war 2

[your Deadman]

wel for me as just a total war fan i would want ogres because its somthing new like kislev are just humans again and there is nothing wrong with tath but ogres would be somthing new

[Doomier Guy]

Originally posted by The_Count:

because they and the chaos dwarves were left out, why do people enjoy certain things? because they do, i feel a bit sad that they didn't include them in warhammer total war 2

I'm just excited to see how OP they are, if their tabletop meta is anything to go by. Expensive, but they absolutely shred.