Orcs n Goblins thoughts

I started TOW with Beasts of Chaos, dabbled into Chaos Dwarfs, and I've landed on Orcs and Goblins for TOW.

I've played roughly 3 games a week for 2 months straight now, so I've got about 22 games under my belt with OnG.

Current list:

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Orc & Goblin Tribes [1997 pts]
Warhammer: The Old World, Orc & Goblin Tribes
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++ Characters [878 pts] ++

Black Orc Warboss [367 pts]
- Hand weapon
- Full plate armour
- Shield
- General
- Wyvern
- Talisman of Protection
- Trollhide Trousers
- Biting Blade
- 'Eadbuttin' 'At

Goblin Oddnob [248 pts]
- Hand weapon
- Level 4 Wizard
- Wolf Chariot
- Idol of Mork
- Waaagh! Magic

Night Goblin Bigboss [135 pts]
- Hand weapon
- Light armour
- Shield
- Battle Standard Bearer [War Banner]
- On foot
- Effigy Of Mork
- Wollopa's One Hit Wunda

Night Goblin Warboss [128 pts]
- Hand weapon
- Light armour
- On foot
- Headsman's Axe
- Paymaster's Coin

++ Core Units [759 pts] ++

15 Black Orc Mob [246 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Full plate armour
- Stubborn
- Veteran
- 8x Shields
- 5x Great weapons
- Boss (champion)
- Standard bearer
- Musician

24 Night Goblin Mob [199 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Shields
- 3x Fanatics
- Boss (champion)
- Standard bearer [Da Spider Banner]
- Musician

38 Night Goblin Mob [314 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Thrusting spears
- Shields
- Netters
- 3x Fanatics
- Boss (champion)
- Standard bearer [Banner of Iron Resolve]
- Musician

++ Special Units [360 pts] ++

5 Night Goblin Squig Hopper Mob [65 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Cavalry spears

5 Night Goblin Squig Hopper Mob [65 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Cavalry spears

6 Orc Boar Boy Mob [140 pts]
- Hand weapons
- Cavalry spears
- Heavy armour
- Shields
- Big 'Uns
- Boss (champion)
- Standard bearer
- Musician

Goblin Bolt Throwa [45 pts]

Goblin Bolt Throwa [45 pts]

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Key Elements:

The Black Orc Warboss is there WS 7 and a reliable challenge threat. I chose biting blade because the Wyvern lacks armor pen, and this means the Boss can reliably cut through 3+ saves. Also, the Azhag model is great.

The Goblin Shaman is there to exploit Howdah, and have 360 LOS. I find the enhanced dispel range to be super effective, along with the re-roll to a single dispel. He's really there to lurk just outside of dispel range and hit critical targets with Itchy Nuisance.

The BSB + NG Warboss is just there to bring 2 NG units with fanatics, along with the Squig Hoppers. The Warboss brings a credible threat to Infantry/Cavalry/Monstrous Inf/Cav threats with the Headsman's axe.

The core is 2 NG blocks and the Black Orcs. Basically, I want to set up a game of chicken to allow the fanatics to do their thing. The poison archers are seriously effective against things that are high toughness, having brought low a steam tank recently that kept failing it's charge rolls. The black orcs, coupled with Furious Charge, and a nuisance spell, can threaten anything in the game with 11 Strength 6 GW attacks on the charge.

I chose the bolt throwers because I find them to be very effective coupled with itchy nuisance at removing monsters.

The squig hoppers are a seriously effective unit, acting as screens but also dealing strength 5 impact hits where I want them.

Itchy nuisance is such a good spell I've considered running 2 level 4's, but that seems really insane to me.

So far, I've won most of my games. I've played against Dwarfs, Empire, Lizardmen, Tomb Kings w/ unkillable dragon, Dark elves w/ dragon, Wood elves with Dragon and 3 treelords, Renegade bretonnians, and regular bretonnians. I've lost a few games primarily to the dwarf player who is running very strong bricks that can stop charges or make disordered charges. Coupled with Hatred, it can be a difficult challenge.