====== OGRE Digest, Jul 8th, 2003 (Last: Jul 5th) ======== ===== GEV Macroture From: "Goldman of Chaos" ===== GEV Macroture From: RJG ===== Tank power From: Sethkimmel@aol.com ===== Ogres vs Mechs From: Sethkimmel@aol.com ===== Super Squads From: "Chris French" ============================== From: "Goldman of Chaos" Subject: GEV Macroture Henry J. Cobb asked about my GEV Macroture : > Did yours come in a sturdy box, suitable for display on a store shelf, > or was it a plastic bag of spare parts? A thin plastic bag of spare parts not suitable for display. Assembled it goes really nicely next to my monorail segment. > Wouldn't it be neat if Evil Stevie had something that could sell in the > Hobby Shops that sell model kits for tanks and ships in addition to the > FLGS? -HJC] A couple more vehicles from the discount bin and then I'll be ready to tackle SkyDiver 1 from UFO. Matt ===== From: RJG Subject: GEV Macroture > Did yours come in a sturdy box, suitable for display on a store shelf, > or was it a plastic bag of spare parts? Mine arrived in a shipping box with the resin GEV body and the metal parts in a small baggie. Could not be displayed on a store shelf in that configuration. Robert ============================== From: Sethkimmel@aol.com Subject: Tank power > and use non-air-breathing power plants > > > >We don't know this.... > > Read _GURPS OGRE_. Armor units use something called "NPU"s. ack!!!!! GURPS heresey!!!!!!!....REAL men and women just use Ogre and Gev, and the Ogre book if they're REALLY desperate...:-) ===== [Any air-breathing power plant isn't going to be very useful after the first sudden fireball hits it. -HJC] ============================== From: Sethkimmel@aol.com Subject: Ogres vs Mechs > Give the 'Mechs BPC, and see what happens. :) (MechaGodzilla, > anyone?) I just want to see them wade into areas with low ground pressure, so I can sit back and laugh when they sink (I NEVER liked this whole walker BS, but that's my own personal bigotry...). Besides, in the real world tall things die first, cause they get spotted first (told to me by way too many treadheads...) ============================== From: "Chris French" Subject: Super Squads > From: stephan beal > Now that you mention it: how does this work out with the recently-posted > Infantry rules? Per those rules, as i remember them, Inf are immune to > D results, and thus, by extension, immune to spillover. See below. > So they're only vulnerable to spillover rather than direct > fire. -HJC] It's a thought.... My thinking is that, since the units are hidden behind things much more substantial than they are, only a DF shot will kill an INF. Spillover fire wouldn't work -- the INF are concealed behind reasonably solid objects. Nothing short of DF or a Cruise Missile will dig INF out of a city hex. (Doesn't anyone on this list know of places like Stalingrad, or Hue?) With the "official" rules, INF are unable to do what they do best -- hide behind rocks, trees, buildings, whatever; and snipe the poor fools trying to enter the city. > From: "Goldman of Chaos" > It is one of the new GEV's out from SJ Games. That's nice to know -- what a pity there are no gaming stores in the Portland, OR, area that actually carry the damned things. (If I could go somewhere and get a look at the box, I'd know approxi- mately how big it was. However, I haven't even seen that much. The only reason I know it exists is as a result of trying to find a copy the _OGREthulhu_ rules.) > [The thing I'm puzzled by is are the Macrotures going to be available > at the Friendly Local Gaming Stores (FLGS)? Around here, N.F.L. (See above.) > Wouldn't it be neat if Evil Stevie had something that could sell in > the Hobby Shops that sell model kits for tanks and ships in addition to the > FLGS? -HJC] That assumes the Friendly Local Hobby Shops actually bother to order any.... (I swear, Portland has the bar-none *worst* gaming scene in the civilized world. Must come from being in the shadows of We're Out To Conquer.) CF ============================== Send all submissions or mailing list changes or problems to ogre@sjgames.com Archives for this mailing list may be found at http://www.io.com/~hcobb/ General online support for the OGRE game is at http://www.sjgames.com/ogre Ogre, G.E.V., Shockwave and other products mentioned here are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steve Jackson Games. All rights are reserved by SJ Games. This material is used here in accordance with the SJ Games online policy at http://www.sjgames.com/general/online_policy.html