Get Bestial & Brutal With The New Beastclaw Raider Ogors For Age Of Sigmar
July 30, 2016 by brennon
The Ogors are next up for an update from Games Workshop for Age of Sigmar. They are back with a vengeance from the icy north as the Beastclaw Raiders. If you like big monstrous beasts and multi-wound creatures who are hard as nails to kill - here you have your army.
The first thing that is leading the way in this conflict is the Beastclaw Raiders book which is another Battletome for Destruction. Inside you'll get all of the rules you need to play out this faction with a themed list based around these mounted Ogor warriors.
Get Your Horde Started
Starting you off for the game they have put together the Icewind Assault Set which comes with all manner of creatures led by their new Icebrow Hunter character. Of course those big Thundertusks and Stonehorns could also be mounts for your mighty heroes too.
Breaking it down we do have those two big mounted beasts which can have all manner of different combinations worked into your army list. The various riders can provide you with slightly different powers for use on the tabletop. Getting down further into it, and on slightly smaller mounts we have the Mournfang Pack.
These are nasty pieces of work in their own right. Quick, with nasty riders and plenty of punch of their own right. I think the paint schemes we're seeing here have elevated this admittedly old miniatures to a new level. Kudos on the snow.
The Icebrow Hunter is another of the great models from the Ogor range making it through to this revamp of the army. I do like this model.
I think that it would be good to see someone actually paint up these models with an alternative paint scheme where you go full Jotunn and give them pale blue skin. Either way you'll also want some of these Frost Sabres working as his loyal pack animals protecting him in battle.
Lastly but not least we also have the monstrous Yhettes who have always looked great but there was very little reason to drop them into your Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition force. Hopefully now their rules have made them worth adding into your games.
Overall while these are effectively all re-packaged versions of the existing range that was available in plastic and finecast I think they've picked the best of the bunch when it comes to what has made it over to Age of Sigmar proper. Of course you could also bring in other Ogors too if you wanted.
Could you see yourself snapping these up?
"Starting you off for the game they have put together the Icewind Assault Set..."
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I’ve never been a fan of the yeti miniatures, but the rest all look really good with their new paint schemes here.
They should of banished those Yhettes to the history bin of terrible models.
Yeh they do have a certain Mantic quality about them.
Ha, I had exactly the same thought. Glad its not just me.
Glad they have finally achieved that standard. 😉
Yes, those 2005 GW minis have finally reached the pinnacle of miniature sculpting that is Mantic’s current range.
Yes! They’ve made trash since! 🙂
spot on observation 🙂
I don’t play AoS but I’m always on the lookout for suitable gribblies for Frostgrave.
Nice to see GW appealing to the Playmobile market with those Frost Sabre sculpts…
*Playmobil
http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/3239.jpg
Oh now it all makes sense.
The Frost Sabers and Yeti seem so dated. I really hope they will do re-sculpts for them.
I really like the cavalry beasts. Not quite sure about the babboon-faced Sabres. Like @redben is saying they look too angular.
The Yhetees are still ugly.
I like the hunter and the yetis, but the rest are garbage. I couldn’t buy them if I wanted to, as I have been banned from my local GW. I was accused of telling a customer go to another store, when I was actually telling the lad he should go to BoW if I wanted to learn about necron tactics. The manager cancelled my online order, after I paid for it and spent $100 in the store! I complained to customer service, and got my kroot shaper for free, but then the manger banned me from his store. I complained… Read more »
Yes… Because one douchebag = entire of GW…
Two, actually 😉
One douchebag = banned from GW?
Three
Joking aside, in a culture where a manager like that is kept on, the problem is obviously systemic, and if people just shrug their shoulders, it will continue.
Not only is GW as a company not one douche manager, I question your taste in miniatures.
The Yetees? Good sculpts? You jest, surely?
Subjective obviously, and not worthy of an attack.
Seriously? You call that an attack?
Trolling, trolling, trolling…
A pretty mixed bag of sculpts quality wise. I’m surprised they kept the yetis. They must be one of the worst sculpts GW still has in production. The stonehorn is one of my all time favourite GW fantasy kits and, for once, the new paint scheme actually makes it look very good.
By my calculations you can buy the arm box, throw away the yetis, and you’ve still saved yourself some money. You’ve also got a complete army of over 1000 points if you’re a matched player.
I never minded the yeti’s actually. I don’t mind the stonehorn thingie, but I’ve never been fond of the triple digit BMI ogres. IF I was still buying GW, I would keep the beast and toss the rider.
Big monsters what is not to like … I am still not a fan of the rules but might be time to give it an other go
As far as can see it’s not so much that these models have “made the cut” and been kept. All of the old armies have been broken down into sub-factions of which Beastclaw Raiders is just one. The entire Ogre Kingdoms has been split into 4 factions:
Gutbusters
Beastclaw Raiders
Firebellies
Maneaters
That being said, that’s a nice looking “themed” set and still good value for money – more of these please GW!
Pretty cool stuff!
Those Ogres and beasts that they ride still hold up but those Frost Sabres and Yetees were never good sculpts.
I like them, a couple need updated. Like the price of them
Nice. I do rather like all these models. Might be tempted. We will see.
All old models and pretty damn good – the plastics.
The Yetti’s are solid models individually but obviously showing their age, as they’re pretty old.
Glad to know I’m not the only one. I had no idea the yeti models were that old, as GW is(was) only one of the companies I buy models from. Second, if they look terrible, as a number of people say they do, are they really so different from most of the other AoS releases?
But of course, I must be punished for not thinking along party lines 🙂
very nice but no new models I see?
I’ve always wanted to start an Ogor army so i’ll be ordering this shortly. They might be old models but it’s a really good start for an Age of Sigmar army.
What is it with GW that they always spark fanboys – haters quarrels? 🙂
Anyway, I don’t mind the models. Not bad, not good and most of them not new.
Really cool models with brutal rules! So many mortal wounds…