--------------------GEV List Thingy, Dec 23rd.-------------------- Subject: GEV From: cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu Do you happen to have a pretty exaustive bibliography for Ogre/GEV? I have the SpaceGame with your articles, and issue 74, and a copy of the Ogre book. I missed Shockwave, so I think I missed the rules for a few of the units (I think the GEV-PC and others). I'd like to get all the rules in one spot...(and if the address of that GEV game appears in your return mail I'll be sure to ignore it :)) As an aside, there's an old SpaceGamer with an add-on for the GDW game Asteroid... it added some very funny things and now I can't find it. Do you happen to have it or even know what I'm talking about? Thanks! Tony Reynolds cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu Cray Network Intern wp.flip.head=true (601)232-7206 ___ [The one with the transporter doors and anti-grav belts? You'll find almost every GEV unit you love in Ogre Minis... -HJC] ___ Subject: Re: GEV: More loot from the Ogre's lair. From: alsandor@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Michel Boucher) Henry, I have used in games a new Ogre weapon, the land torpedo. I thought you might be interested. There are two types: guided and unguided (unguided are cheaper). UNGUIDED TORPEDO: Exits a launch tube and crosses six hexsides until it either enters one with a target (hard target, not infantry) and inflicts an automatic 6 points of damage. It destroys anything but an Ogre to which it inflicts 6 points of damage to the treads. The unguided torpedo is launched by rolling a die and using the usual 1-6 hexside of the Ogre hex to determine direction. This is done for another five hexsides unless it either a) encounters a target (even the launching Ogre itself), b) goes off the edge of the board, or c) runs into a crater. Unguided torpedoes are only available to missile-carrying Ogres and can be obtained at the beginning by exchanging missiles at the rate of one for every two unguided torpedoes. They are launched before the Ogre moves. GUIDED TORPEDO: Exits a launch tube and follows a pre-plotted course until it either encounters a target or reaches the end of its run. It also produces six points of damage. Presumably, if the course is plotted, it wouldn't enter a crater hex or run off the edge. The guided torpedo is launched by plotting a course (six hexes in any direction) BEFORE the opponent's movement allowance and fire phase. It is launched (cannot be aborted) after the opponent has finished his turn. It must therefore be announced (see Electronic Probing Devices to tell the opponent that the missile is armed and primed) and whatever can't get out of the way will be blasted. Of course, the plotting is kept secret from the opponent, but it's possible that the initial targets are no longer there and new targets have moved into place. To balance, add a few heavies or any other kind of unit (not GEVs) to the attacking force. Guided torpedo cost is 1 missile is equal to one torpedo. I've found it adds a new angle to the game, but some might feel it detracts from the simplicity of the game. I've also fiddled with damage to the appropriate side of the Ogre (how can a GEV on the left side damage treads on the right?), but that's another thing. One more thing. If the torpedoes of either type reach their limit without having encountered a target, they explode harmlessly in the last hex they enter (unless there's a target there, of course). If that last hex contains infantry, it is reduced by one step by the effect of the blast, but at no other time will infantry be affected by a torpedo. Lemme know whatchoo tink. Michel P.S.: Thanks for posting all that GEV stuff on the net. ___ [The problem is that GEV is only the 21st century and so we're restricted to those systems we can extrapolate from current day systems. So items need to have reference to the R&D projects of today. I.e.: I just don't get it. -HJC] Henry J. Cobb hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu SFB Tyrant "Once it becomes possible to do something, it gets very difficult to undo it. Whether its automobiles, computers or nuclear weapons, invention has always been the mother of necessity."