After animating an ogre corpse and corrupting it and tried to use the equip weapon function, the ogre managed to pick the greataxe up to his inventory (and it has martial weapon proficiency*) but failed to equip the axe to his primary weapon when entering combat and continued to use unarmed attacks.
Account: BloodStorm
Character: Xavorin Nethra
The Ogres have to be given a one - handed weapon. Either due to a bug or for balance reasons, they won't use two-handed.
That seems like a bug more then anything, i can't imagine why an ogre couldn't wield a two hander.
Maybe it's because of how utterly devastating they'd be with a two-handed weapon. I'm not sure.
Just as a note, I think an ogre would wield a great-axe as a one-handed weapon anyway.