How to Play Ogor Mawtribes in Warhammer Age of Sigmar (4th Edition)

4th edition gives you exactly one battle formation for your whole army, and it grants a single ability. There is no budget to spend and no way to combine two, so this is a fork in the road rather than a shopping list.

The free Battle Profiles for Ogor Mawtribes, stamped August 2026, names four: - Hunger-filled Tribe - every enemy unit you destroy lets another of your units walk into a new fight at the end of the turn. - Vanguard of the Mawpath - units that rolled a very high charge get a short extra move that has to end back in combat. - Hinterland Hunters - a defensive bonus for units near your own battlefield edge that have not charged. - Maw-cult Fanatics - recurring healing on every unit that has already used the army's Eat 'Em Alive trait.

Two more, Mawpath Menaces and Greedy Eaters, are carried in full by the community rules mirror but are not listed in that free Battle Profiles document. We keep their pages because the mirror carries real rules for them, and every one of those pages says plainly that the free first-party points document does not list them. Check your battletome before taking either to an event.

The current army rule is about eating. - Eat 'Em Alive - at the end of any turn, an Ogor unit that fought inflicts a little extra mortal damage on an enemy it is engaged with, and then takes a lasting buff from a menu of meals. That buff stays for the rest of the battle, and picking a new one replaces the old one, so you are choosing an upgrade path for each unit as the game unfolds. - Bull Charge - once per turn a unit that charged shoves its target around, rolls a fistful of dice for mortal damage, and piles in. Gutbusters do it better. - Jaws of the Beast and Closing the Jaws - a Beastclaw Hero and one unit from its regiment can start in reserve and arrive near a battlefield edge, more than 9 inches from enemies.

The practical shape of the army: you commit fewer, bigger units than almost anyone else, you get paid for winning fights rather than for holding still, and one flank can arrive late from the board edge.

These are printed in the paid battletome and are summarised here from a community mirror.

The current matched play season is the General's Handbook 2026-27, and its free companion rules layer is Scourge of Aqshy. Every faction got a pack and the contents differ. The Ogor Mawtribes pack, dated 3 July 2026, contains: - an Artefacts of Power table, Plunder of the Mawtribes: A Choice Cut, Rusty Grater and Key to the Larder; - a Monstrous Traits table, Well-fed Beasts: Extremely Obstinate, Horn Toss and Grumpy Alpha; - variant warscrolls for the Huskard on Thundertusk and the Frostlord on Thundertusk.

It contains no battle formations, so it does not change the choice above. Two rules about how the layer plugs in matter more than the individual cards: a Scourge of Aqshy table replaces the equivalent battletome table rather than adding to it, and several of these cards key off the season's fury and rage rules, so they only do anything in a General's Handbook 2026-27 game.

One wrinkle worth knowing: the season pack was written before the new battletome and still uses the older Beastclaw Raiders keyword, while the post-battletome Battle Profiles uses Beastclaw and adds Mawseekers. Check the keyword line on your own warscroll rather than assuming.

Games Workshop retired the Start Collecting boxes. The current equivalent for Age of Sigmar is Spearhead, which is both a boxed set and its own small-format game mode. Ogor Mawtribes has three Spearhead armies in the current downloads index: Tyrant's Bellow, Scrapglutt and Warglutt Marauders (added 15 July 2026 alongside the battletome). Spearhead is not a battle formation and does not interact with the choice above.

The bigger entry point is the Ogor Mawtribes Army Set that shipped with the battletome. We track its contents, release timing and what is actually known about its price on the Ogor Mawtribes Army Set page, including why the savings percentage circulating for it is an estimate rather than a real baseline.

One buying warning that only the free Battle Profiles will tell you. The August 2026 Ogor Battle Profiles marks a long list of older kits as moving to Warhammer Legends on 1 June 2027: Firebelly, Icebrow Hunter, Slaughtermaster, Frost Sabres, Gnoblars, Icefall Yhetees, Leadbelchers, Maneaters, Mournfang Pack and the Great Mawpot. Those are fine to own and fine for casual play, but they are a poor foundation for a new tournament collection. The kits with a future are the new battletome units plus the Stonehorn and Thundertusk monsters, the Tyrant, the Bloodpelt Hunter, the Mantrapper, the Gorger Mawpack, the Ironblaster and the Gnoblar Scraplauncher.

• Frostlord on Stonehorn - the army's durable centrepiece and its most reliable hammer. Still a full-price Battle Profiles entry after the battletome.
• Huskard on Stonehorn / Thundertusk - cheaper monsters, and the Huskards are Priests, which matters now that the prayer lore changed.
• Stonehorn and Thundertusk Beastriders - the same chassis without the character, for when you want two monsters instead of one.
• Ironguts and Gluttons - the Gutbusters infantry core, both reprofiled by the battletome.
• Gorger Mawpack - Mawseekers infantry that cannot be reinforced, so keeping it alive matters more than growing it.
• Ironblaster - the artillery piece, and the unit that most wants to sit still.
• Tyrant and Bloodpelt Hunter - cheap Heroes, both able to join another regiment as a Maw Nomad.
• Kragnos, the End of Empires - the named centrepiece, and by a distance the most expensive single entry in the list.

Which units are strongest shifts with each Battle Profiles republish, so treat this as a map of roles rather than a tier list.

Ogor Mawtribes play a low-model-count aggression game. You want fights, because the army rule pays you for having them, and you want to win them decisively enough that Eat 'Em Alive keeps stacking buffs onto your survivors.

The recurring mistakes: - Treating the February 2025 faction pack as current. It is the single most expensive error available to an Ogor player right now, because it is still a live, free, official download. - Spreading out. With this few units, every model you leave out of position is a large fraction of your army. - Ignoring the meal menu. Eat 'Em Alive is a compounding resource. Skipping it for a turn is skipping a permanent upgrade. - Buying the Legends-bound kits first. See the collecting section above.

Ogors struggle against armies that can trade at range or refuse the fight, and against horde armies that can out-body you on objectives while ignoring your combat threat. Board control, not raw damage, is usually the thing you are short of.