Bob: I love Rat Ogres, Jim.
Jim: Why’s that, Bob?
Bob: They’re like Ogres, Jim, but they can strangle three opponents at once using two hands and a tail!
The Skaven are among the swiftest of all the Blood Bowl teams. However, that speed comes at a price – they’re also one of the most fragile teams in the game. That’s where the Rat Ogre comes in.
A Rat Ogre is an amalgam of mutated muscle created by the fleshcrafters of Clan Moulder. They tower over even the largest Stormvermin, and can tear an opponent limb from limb with effortless ease, even as they choke the life from another with their prehensile tail.Its combination of speed, strength, and animalistic ferocity makes the Rat Ogre a formidable asset. Indeed, were it not for its wild nature, a Rat Ogre could almost be considered the perfect Big Guy. It possesses a brutal blend of Strength 5, Frenzy, and Mighty Blow (+1). That usually means two bites at the (face-smashing) cherry, and easy mode when it comes to crowd-surfing rival players – where they will no-doubt be horribly dismembered.
Perhaps the most crucial edge that a Rat Ogre offers is the ability to hold up multiple players on the line of scrimmage with the physical threat it represents. What’s more, the Rat Ogre’s prehensile tail makes it even harder for players to escape its clutches. Even without a numerical advantage, Skaven teams can score from almost any position. So if a Rat Ogre can tie up a few key players first, scoring almost becomes an inevitability.
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Jim: Ouch! That Rat Ogre’s just torn the player’s head right off!
Bob: A quick, clean kill, Jim. Just how I like it.
Jim: Well, based on all that delicious blood fountaining from the stump of the player’s neck, I wouldn’t exactly say the kill was clean, Bob…