============ OGREverse list, Nov 9th (Last: Nov 4th) ============= ===== Bop till you drop. From: rtot ===== new units From: rtot ===== Heavy Weapons From: Patrick Odonnell ------------------------------ From: rtot Subject: Bop till you drop. ><< On the other hand, aren't BOPPERs just very cheap cybertanks? >> >Bonus points to anyone who can tell us what a GLUT is (not you, Henry...) >John Hurtt (Servitor@aol.com) Great Large Unidentified Trivia :) >Yes, but where was this printed? :-) -HJC You mean the reference itself(?) I think it was the OGRE Handbook (at least thats where I read it). There was a piece of fiction in the back about a robotic construction facility that went by the code name Big Bopper. Big Bopper sends out a smaller mobile unit (code named either Little Bopper or just Bopper) that IDs an OGRE but does not know what it is and refers to it as a GLUT. When it moves in it get nailed and the piece ends with the GLUT moving in to attack Big Bopper who is in rather dire straights. It may have been an excerpt from a book but thats where I read GLUT. ------------------------------ From: rtot Subject: new units >From: "Dominique Sumner" > >OK, i've been playing around with a few ideas for some new units and hear >they are. >Light Mobile Howitzer (LMHWZ) (yes I know that someone already submitted >one) >D1 M0 4/5 >1 armor point >Its basically the howitzer from the "Iron Mountain" scenario mounted on a >tracked vehicle. A minor point, but is this a Mobile Howitzer or just a Light Howitzer. The standard mobile howitzer is self propelled but this one lists a move of zero(?) The Iron Mountain weapon was a towed howizter but not self propelled if memory serves. ------------------------------ From: Patrick Odonnell Subject: Heavy Weapons > > [Aren't heavy weapon squads about the same as modern mortar teams? -HJC] No... modern mortar team are ... Mortars are used for fire support and once emplaced they pretty much stay their as their a pain to site in. ... As a former Marine who once had to carry the base-plate to one of the above named mortars I can only add that Mortars are not only a pain to site in but also that the BAS**** that declared 80mm Mortars to be 'Man-Portable' was probably a 'Butter-Bar' 2nd Lt who was looking to kiss some major butt. To witt. I would assume that some genius would finally put these things on wheels. Anybody ever heard of a Rick-Shaw or Wheel Borrow? Or, has anyone on this list ever participated in 'Chariot Races' in college? Levers are wonderful simple machines. Each 4 man 'Fire-support' team - 2 to tow the 'field piece' and 2 to tow the ammo ... Yes I would put that on a rick-shaw type carrier as well - would be stationed in a 1km^2 'box' behind a given platoon or company and would play a position ruffly equivelant to a cross between a 'line-backer' and a 'quarterback.' That is to say that each team would be responsible for providing fire support upon radioed request by 'lobbing (somewhat explosive) passes' to the adversary. Think 'Field Mobil Close Support.' Actually this is not even a new idea. Man-towed 'light field pieces' go back at least a couple hundred years. But, as a Lance Corporal one is ill-advised to discuss the lessons of history with his commanding officer during field exercises. Instead, it happens more like this, 'LCpl O'Donnell, you're in luck. You drew a rear echalon duty today. ...' PJ ------------------------------ [Three OGRE sites? Three OGRE sites on the entire frigging web? Show me it ain't so. Post your BPC plated URLs at http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Space_Combat/Ogre/ -HJC] Henry J. Cobb ogre@sjgames.com http://www.io.com/~hcobb All OGRE-related items Copyright (c) 1999, by Steve Jackson Games.