Here’s the list he used to my recollection:

• Vampire w/an item that lets him keep a dispel die from the previous turn to use as a power die
• 10 Skeletons w/full command and some banner that makes their unit strength twice their normal number
• 10 Grave Guard
• 10 Crypt Ghouls
• 3 Cairn Wraiths
• The Vampire had the spells Raise Dead and Invocation

My list:

• Bruiser w/great weapon, heavy armor, Gnoblar Thiefstone x2
• Bulls x4 w/additional hand weapon and bellower
• Ironguts x3 w/bellower
• Gnoblar Fighters x20
• Gnoblar Trappers x8
• Leadbelchers x2 w/bellower

Having played a partial game the previous week versus John and his VC, I knew he’d be raising units in front of me so I couldn’t charge his good units, which I thought would hinder me pretty badly. In this game, he did that three times and two of the three, I was able to overrun into another unit. The Leadbelchers did little except to distract his Grave Guard, which worked in my favor more than I though it would. In the end, the unit of Ironguts with my Bruiser managed to get into combat with the Vampire and his Skeletons. The Vampire, having higher initiative struck first and whiffed on all of his attacks. The 3 attacks from my Irongut in contact with him took him down. The other Ironguts managed to kill a bunch of Skeletons, but they didn’t go away. I thought the Cairn Wraiths would have been a big issue since I didn’t have any magic weapons, but I managed to hold them up enough to keep them out of the way until the very end. They did, however, run down the Bulls after winning combat. There were a couple of instances where I might have gotten a multi-charge on one of his units, but because my Ogre units were 4 wide, they would have run into other enemies beforehand. Oh well.

I will admit one thing, though: I forgot the Leadbelchers can’t fire every turn, so I might have killed a couple less Grave Guard than the 8 or so they did kill over the course of the game. What they did do, though, is keep the Grave Guard facing them instead of engaging one of my other units. I’ll be making a Reload counter or something to remember this rule.

It was a very good game and I’m feeling much better about the Ogres. I need to get better with them, which will be easier as the league gets bigger.