=============== OGRE/GEV list, Mar 31st (Last: Mar 30th) =============== ===== "A vital part of the OGRE experience" From: sdorr@ix.netcom.com (Scott David Orr) ============================== To: "Henry J. Cobb" From: sdorr@ix.netcom.com (Scott David Orr) Subject: "A vital part of the OGRE experience" > As for "hull down", the USA (overloaded acronym, see The Computer >Contradictionary for more) trains folks how to react when they are >attacked with nuclear weapons. "Duck and Cover" ring a bell? Ye good >ol' "solid" earth is the best thing to get between you and a nuclear >blast. (Somehow I doubt I'll ever face any liability over this advice, >one way or the other ;-) Right. I do have one problem with the minis, though: in two instances (the hull down rules and, especially, the spillover rules), the game rules use the miniature itself (and not just its center -- or rather ground level beneath its center) to determine LOS, etc. This is just plain silly -- at the scale used in Ogre, the top or edge of the miniature is nowhere near the actual location of the vehicle in question (and while the problem is almost unavoidable with LOS and hull down, there's really no excuse for it in the spillover effects, where the center of the miniature could just as easily have been used as the whole outline). Scott Orr ----- [Remember that vertical scale is different from horizontal scale, see page 4 for details, a side effect is that you don't need to curb your wheels when you park on the sides of most trees. (hopefully the silliest thing I'll write this year...) Speaking of missing out on vital parts, Laumer now has a Bolos anthology series from Baen Books, the issue I've got is "BOLOS Book 2, The Unconquerable", ISBN 0-671-87629-5. All new stories from 1994, just remember that most Bolos don't use nukes. -HJC] Henry J. Cobb hcobb@io.com http://www.io.com/~hcobb All OGRE-related items Copyright (c) 1996, by Steve Jackson Games.