I got interested in this and researched the topic a bit. It seems it's a thing coming from incredibly ancient times. The commit that added Ogre (along with some other familiar units) to the Age of Heroes is this one https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/comm ... edba06f86c Sep 3, 2004, so it was like 20.5 years ago.
I've tried to search the forums to look for any answer. I didn't find any direct evidence like messages about adding it. Only some proposals and hesitation about ogres being among loyalists. The most probable explanation I can infer is that there are topics about the Eastern Invasion campaign around that time. And EI includes a scenario where Gweddry (so a loyalist force) captures ogres to fight in the royal army. So I guess Ogre was added just for fun to add more units into the AoH era with a justification by EI's scenario with catching ogres.
My initial lookup was wrong, I stopped looking the commit history too early, gnombat gives correct answers below
I've tried to search the forums to look for any answer. I didn't find any direct evidence like messages about adding it. Only some proposals and hesitation about ogres being among loyalists. The most probable explanation I can infer is that there are topics about the Eastern Invasion campaign around that time. And EI includes a scenario where Gweddry (so a loyalist force) captures ogres to fight in the royal army. So I guess Ogre was added just for fun to add more units into the AoH era with a justification by EI's scenario with catching ogres.
My initial lookup was wrong, I stopped looking the commit history too early, gnombat gives correct answers below
Statistics: Posted by dwarftough — Yesterday, 6:34 pm
