Maneaters

Grade: 1c
Source: Border Town Burning (PDF)
Setting: Border Town Burning

Lore

In their natural environment Ogres move in herds. They exist in tribes spread across the Mountains of Mourn. Drifting through foreign lands, Ogres take up employment as hired muscle to anyone with enough coin and the nerve to go with it.

The call of the wild is too much for some bands and they prey upon merchants and travellers. The Ivory Road is never easy pickings as land trains are always guarded by heavily armed hirelings. Ogres sometimes end up fighting their own kind before looting the caravans and returning to their tribes with whatever is left of the spoils.

A company of these undisciplined savages who agree to fight under the command of a ballsy merchant will have their witless brawn put to good use in a fight. Spectacular mercenaries known as Maneaters all too often find themselves on the road, escorting a wealthy caravan great distances along dangerous trade routes. A few of these retinues make their way to the ruins of Mordheim.

Special rules

Fear: Ogres are large, threatening creatures that with the exception of Youngbloods, cause fear.

Large: Except for Youngbloods and Half-growns Ogres are huge, lumbering creatures and therefore make tempting targets for archers. Any model may shoot at them, even if they are not the closest target and gets a +1 bonus on the ‘to hit’ roll.

Gluttony: Because of a voracious appetite, each Ogre model counts as two models when selling wyrdstone or treasure. Any model which is captured due to Serious Injuries or Exploration can be devoured and his possessions retained, reducing the combined model count of your warband by one (or two if the captive ‘shared meal’ is a Large Target). Each Ogre always counts as at least one model towards the total, no matter how much he eats!

An Ogre Hero devouring captured models is granted experience points equal to the number of models that were consumed. Any member or animal (including mounts) from your warband can be eaten in the same way!^✏️ Remove any consumed comrades from the warband roster immediately.

Slow Witted: Although Ogres are capable of earning experience and bettering themselves they are not the smartest of creatures. Ogres only improve at half the rate of everyone else. They must earn twice the usual number of experience points to gain an advance.

Difficult Customers: Unable to create anything of lasting worth, Ogres tend to rely on more civilised folk for the acquisition of quality goods. Widely regarded by vendors as their least popular and most frightening customers, Ogre Heroes suffer -1 when rolling to find Rare items that are not exclusively available to Ogres.

Cannibals: Most Hired Swords refuse to work for Ogres, as they know for sure they’ll end up being a meal sooner or later. An Ogre warband may never hire any Hired Swords, except for Halflings (Scout, Thief, etc.) and the Ogre Bodyguard, or unless stated otherwise, in which case Ogres can choose to devour him^❓ when the contract ends (see Gluttony).

Choice of warriors

A Maneaters warband must include a minimum of three models. You have 500 gold crowns available to spend. The maximum number of warriors in the warband may never exceed 12.

• Captains: Each warband must have 1 Captain: no more, no less!
• Youngbloods: Your warband may include up to 3 Youngbloods.
• Mountain Guides: Your warband may include up to 1 Mountain Guide.
• Bulls: Your warband may include up to 2 Bulls.
• Half-growns: Your warband may include any number of Half-growns.
• Sabretusks: Your warband may include up to 2 Sabretusks.

Starting experience

• The Captain starts with 20 experience.
• Youngbloods start with 0 experience.
• The Mountain Guide starts with 8 experience.
• Henchmen start with 0 experience.

Maneaters Skill Table

	Combat	Shooting	Academic	Strength	Speed	Special
Captain	✓			✓		✓
Youngblood	✓			✓		✓
Mountain Guide	✓			✓		✓

Maneaters Special Skills

Maneaters Heroes may use the following Skill table instead of any of the standard Skill tables available to them.

master of arms

The Ogre learns how to use his size. He may now wield a Difficult to Use weapon and a hand weapon at the same time, but not two Difficult to Use weapons.

crude belch

Ogres and Gnoblars eat almost anything. Consequences are to be expected from those inconsiderate enough to consume a rich meal before battle. A Hero with this 'condition' may unleash his thunderous fumes on all enemies engaged in close combat. Those that do not pass a Ld test suffer a –1 ‘to hit’ modifier for the turn. The Ogre must wait until a new enemy engages him in combat before he relieves himself again.

maneater

Ogres are not civilized of their own accord but it is proven they are prone to absorb foreign customs when travelling the world. Some eventually learn strange new skills before returning home to their tribes. This Ogre may immediately learn one skill from the Shooting or Academic skill lists. This skill may be taken only once and may not be taken by the Guide.

bull charge

Ogres learn to use their vast bulk in a charge, trampling the enemy to the ground. When charging, an Ogre with this skill may attempt a single attack with a +1 ‘to hit’ modifier rather than making his normal attacks. If successful the enemy model is automatically knocked down.

dog of war

When an Ogre travels south he can find employment as a tavern bouncer. Some are enlisted by Paymasters to fight for Tilean City States. Drawing from experience gained during a stint on foreign soil, the band can now hire those Hired Swords available for Mercenaries. This skill may only be taken by the leader and if he dies all Hired Swords are removed from the warband.

Bellowing Roar

An Ogre leader expects challenges to his authority. One of the best ways to suppress a mutineer in the ranks is to give his ear drums a good pounding. This skill may only be taken by the warband leader, allowing him to re-roll the first failed Rout test.

Maneaters equipment lists

Pricing:

Ogre Equipment List

Hand-to-hand Combat Weapons

Item	Cost
Cleaver (Axe)	5 gc
Ogre Club	10 gc
Sword	10 gc
Spear	10 gc
Morning Star	15 gc
Double-handed weapon	15 gc
Iron Fist	15 gc
Cathayan Longsword	75 gc Captain only

Missile Weapons

Item	Cost
Hand-held Mortar	70 gc

Armour

Item	Cost
Helmet	10 gc
Light Armour	20 gc
Heavy Armour	50 gc

Miscellaneous

Item	Cost
Gnoblar Fighter	15 gc
Lookout-Gnoblar (Lookout-Gnoblar)	20 gc
Luck-Gnoblar (Luck-Gnoblar)	25 gc
Sword-Gnoblar (Sword-Gnoblar)	30 gc

Mountain Guide Equipment List

Hand-to-hand Combat Weapons

Item	Cost
Cleaver (Axe)	5 gc
Ogre Club	10 gc
Sword	10 gc
Spear	10 gc
Double-handed weapon	15 gc

Missile Weapons

Item	Cost
Harpoon Crossbow	50 gc

Armour

Item	Cost
Helmet	10 gc
Light Armour	20 gc

Special Equipment

Maneaters have access to the following special equipment when purchasing items from the Trading Post, outside their starting list:

Iron Fist

Cost: 15 gc
Availability: Common

Ogres often shield their off-hand with some kind of spiked gauntlet. Such a heavy glove can be used to bat aside the strongest of attacks in a similar way to a giant buckler or to smash an enemy's face to a pulp.

Range: Close Combat
Strength: As user

Special Rules

Parry: A model with an iron fist may parry enemy blows.

Gloved: A model armed with an iron fist may not hold another weapon in the same hand. This means a double-handed weapon cannot be used. Having two iron fists means the Ogre may not use any other close combat weapons during a battle.

Dual-role: Iron fists operate like a buckler and a bladed hand weapon at the same time. This means that an iron fist allows the wearer to re-roll failed parry attempts if paired with a sword or another iron fist.

Ogre Club

Cost: 10 gc
Availability: Common

Ogre clubs are crudely fashioned with bindings, spikes, and studs, and the craftsmanship and size of the club an Ogre wields is an indication of his status. An Ogre wielding a simple log is generally seen as desperate or extremely poor while wandering ones are known to wield almost anything of suitable size such as street lamps, salvaged artillery or pieces of architecture. These clubs are normally used for knocking out food so that it can be dragged back to the cave without losing much blood, but are also perfect for breaking enemies defence in a fight. An Ogre trusts his club and will eat it only in the direst of circumstances.

Range: Close Combat
Strength: As user

Special Rules

Concussion: Ogre clubs are excellent to use for striking enemies senseless. When using an Ogre club, a roll of 2-4 is treated as stunned when rolling for Injuries.

Crushing Attack: Ogre clubs may be wielded with impressive strength imposing -1 to enemy armour saves. Also the Strength of the attack is considered one higher for parry attempts by the defender, so a S3 model may not parry attacks by a S5 Ogre wielding the club. Crushing Attack only applies if the Ogre uses the club with both hands.

Harpoon Crossbow

Cost: 50 gc
Availability: Rare 10

Little more than a crude crossbow hybrid, scaled up for the sake of a titanic marksman.

Range: 30"
Strength: 5

Special Rules

Move or fire: May not move and fire in the same turn.

Prepare shot: Requires a full turn to prepare before shooting.

Hand-held Mortar

Cost: 80 + 2D6 gc
Availability: Rare 12

The explosive power of a mortar, in a small enough package to be carried by a single man, the Hand-Held Mortar enables a warrior to launch an explosive into the midst of the enemy, sowing death and disorder.

Range: 24"
Strength: 4

Special Rules

Prepare shot: A Hand-held Mortar takes a complete turn to reload^❓, so you may only fire it every other turn.

Move or fire: You may not move and fire a Hand-held Mortar in the same turn, other than to pivot on the spot to face your target or stand up.

Save Modifier: Hand-held Mortar are even better at penetrating armour than their Strength 4 suggests. A warrior wounded by a Hand-held Mortar must take its armour save with a -2 modifier.

Scatter: If the warrior misses his roll to hit, the shot will land 2D6” in a random direction (determined using a Warhammer directional die, using the “clockface method” of scattering, or whatever other method the players can agree to).

Experimental: The Hand-held Mortar is always Experimental: subject to the optional Blackpowder Weapons rules from the Mordheim rulebook, even if they are not normally used in your campaign. On any result other than “BOOM!”, the weapon has jammed or run out of loaded barrels and must be reloaded.

Explosive Radius: After determining the final landing spot, the explosion created by the bomb will cover a small area. The target and any models within 1 ½” of him each take a single S4 hit from the blast.

Claimed Gnoblars

Lookout-Gnoblar

Cost: 20 gc
Availability: Rare 8

Special Rules

An Ogre with a Lookout-Gnoblar gains the skill Dodge from the Speed skill list.

Luck-Gnoblar

Cost: 25 gc
Availability: Rare 9

Special Rules

An Ogre with a Luck-Gnoblar may re-roll one dice during the battle. Remember you may never re-roll a re-roll.

Sword-Gnoblar

Cost: 30 gc
Availability: Rare 10

Special Rules

An Ogre with a Sword-Gnoblar gains one extra Strength 2 attack in Close Combat, at the weapon skill of the owning model. This attack is made at the same time as the owning Hero's attacks and must be directed at a model the Ogre has directed attacks toward. The opponent's attention is on the Ogre!

Heroes

1 Captain

145 gold crowns to hire

A retinue of Maneaters is captained by a brutish mercenary driven by his lust to gather wealth, experience and exotic wargear. He maintains order in his company by issuing threats and bribes or using violence.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	6	4	3	4	4	3	3	2	8

Weapons/Armour: Captain may be equipped with weapons and armour chosen from the Ogre Equipment List.

Special Rules

Leader: Any warrior within 6“ of the Captain may use his Leadership when taking Ld tests.

Unlike other models Ogres don't have free daggers, even though they might carry one reserved for eating, the most sacred activity in their life. Ogres never fight with daggers in close combat.

0 – 3 Youngbloods

45 gold crowns to hire

When Ogre calves meet outsiders for the first time, they’re not quite so menacing. Strange encounters in the wilderness pose a great many threats for them to overcome.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	6	2	2	3	4	2	2	1	6

Weapons/Armour: Youngblood may be equipped with weapons and armour chosen from the Ogre Equipment List.

Unlike other models Ogres don't have free daggers, even though they might carry one reserved for eating, the most sacred activity in their life. Ogres never fight with daggers in close combat.

0 – 1 Mountain Guide

145 gold crowns to hire

Youthful hunters leave their tribe to sate wanderlust or a rumbling gut. Isolated in mountainous territories they exist to track challenging prey through hostile conditions. Eventually the tribal ties of scouts are severed. With no loyalty they may choose to follow herds as they wish.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	6	4	3	4	4	3	3	2	8

Weapons/Armour: Mountain Guide may be equipped with weapons and armour chosen from the Mountain Guide Equipment List.

Special Rules

Ranger: A Mountain Guide is a dedicated tracker. If he’s not put out of action in the battle, you may roll two dice for Exploration and pick one as the result. Note that this is not a re-roll.

Loner: Mountain Guides are Ogre Hunters. They become used to the solitude of the highest peaks in the Mountains of Mourn. A Mountain Guide hunts the slopes alone and will never claim a Gnoblar or take one as a pet. They are immune to all alone tests and may never become the warband leader.

Unlike other models Ogres don't have free daggers, even though they might carry one reserved for eating, the most sacred activity in their life. Ogres never fight with daggers in close combat.

Henchmen

(Bought in groups of 1-5)

0 – 2 Bulls

140 gold crowns to hire

Reckless young Bulls are nothing more than wanderers who recognize the strength of the Captain. They care only to fill their stomachs and don’t realize that one day they shall become learned and well travelled Maneaters.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	6	3	2	4	4	3	2	3	7

Weapons/Armour: Bull may be equipped with weapons and armour chosen from the Ogre Equipment List.

Special Rules

Bull Charge: Ogres learn to use their vast bulk in a charge, trampling the enemy to the ground. When charging, Bulls may attempt a single attack with a +1 ‘to hit’ modifier rather than making their normal attacks. If successful the enemy model is automatically knocked down.

Unlike other models Ogres don't have free daggers, even though they might carry one reserved for eating, the most sacred activity in their life. Ogres never fight with daggers in close combat.

Half-growns

85 gold crowns to hire

Any underdeveloped Ogres risk meeting a sticky end. These half-grown brutes are slain at the hands of traditionalist tyrants as runts represent weakness in the tribe. Migrating renegades will seek refuge in a weaker herd or take up arms in their exile for whoever keeps them.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	6	3	2	4	4	2	2	2	7

Weapons/Armour: Half-grown may be equipped with weapons and armour chosen from the Ogre Equipment List.

Unlike other models Ogres don't have free daggers, even though they might carry one reserved for eating, the most sacred activity in their life. Ogres never fight with daggers in close combat.

0 – 2 Sabretusks

125 gold crowns to hire

Sabretusks are agile, giant felines with tusks jutting from their lower jaw. It is common for a young hunter to keep a Sabretusk or two around to help sniff out his next meal.

Profile	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
	8	4	0	4	4	2	4	3	4

Weapons/Armour: Tusks and primal ferocity!

Special Rules

Trained: Sabretusks may use the Leadership of the Mountain Guide if within 6” of him. In the event that no Mountain Guide is included in the warband due to a death or an injury, the Sabretusks cannot be used until the Mountain Guide is replaced. They must be caged and left at the camp until a new one is hired.

Feral Instinct: Even a Guide has difficulty controlling such feral beasts. At the beginning of the Ogres turn the Sabretusk must pass a Leadership test. If the test is failed, the opponent may move the Sabretusk this turn. An uncontrolled Sabretusk may charge models from his own warband!

Ignored: Sabretusks that are out of action do not count to the number of out of action models for the purpose of Rout tests.

Fear: Sabretusks are huge feline predators and thus cause fear.

Animals: Sabretusks are animals and thus do not gain experience.^✏️