Classification of ogres

By Jurge Hasgarson, in Battlelore

What unit type exactly do ogres belong to? The HH rulebook makes the following note: "Like normal foot units, the first SoS Symbol from an ogres attack is ignored" (I assume they mean against a mounted unit....). Does this mean ogres ARE normal foot units or just treated as if they were? This is important especially regarding some of the heroes artifact cards (targeting infantry units), the tactic card infantry assault (I hope thats the cards English name) and most of all if ogres are hero friendly units.... Imagine heroes totally immune to SoS symbols.....I hate the single thought on this, but I am pretty sure by time one of my board game partners will try this *sigh*

In an older thread I have read something about beast-bands - if ogres are part of this new unit type, to what degree do they share the rules of "normal" infantry units?

Ok, now I have the unit summary card in front of me, and I have the answer I wanted. The card states clearly, that the ogres are treated as a red banner infantry unit. It just wasn´t clear from the rukebook alone.

Anyway, that makes a hero in the ogres really hard to kill.