====== OGRE Digest, Jan 26th, 2004 (Last: Jan 15th) ======== ===== There's something about those sensors From: BillA2720@aol.com ===== TO+E 42nd. Infantry "Rainbow" Division From: "Chris French" ===== Ogre Miniatures News From: Jpattern@aol.com ===== 'nother timeline gripe From: David Morse ============================== From: BillA2720@aol.com Subject: There's something about those sensors << Hollywood isn't the only place where old hits are recycled. Such miniature gadgets were first developed and used in the 1960s. These early devices were just a microphone and transmitter. An aircraft overhead could pick up the transmissions, record them, and get them back to a base where the activity (trucks, troops marching, or whatever), where it occurred and the time, could be recorded. In this way, operations along the carefully hidden (under the tall jungle canopy) "Ho Chi Minh" trail could be studied, plotted and bombed. The trail, run by the North Vietnam through Laos (just east of Vietnam), was vital to keeping their troops in South Vietnam supplied. >> I remember my older brother buying something from a surplus catalog in the seventies. It was a vibration sensor with a transmitter incased in plastic to look like a piece of mud or feces or something. ============================== From: "Chris French" Subject: TO+E 42nd. Infantry "Rainbow" Division > From: Sethkimmel@aol.com > I got it from here: > > New York Army National Guard HHC major command links > http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/nyarng.htm I'll check it out. (Should I be worried that US military units are placing info like this on the Internet where anyone -- especially Middle Eastern Religious Reformers -- can see it? :) ) > From: stephan beal > Subject: Cybernetic Warriors > Scenario idea: > > Attacker: one [delusional] Ogre Mk III, nicknamed "Frenchy". Mk. 3? *MK. 3*!? That's even more insulting than calling me "Frenchy". (For accuracy, the last Frenchman in my family moved to England in 1066. :) ) > Defender: > - one Target superstore [no pun intended, but the name just begs to be > punned]. Treat it as an SP 30 administrative building. Ba-dum, cshhh! (That was a rimshot, for the sound-effects- impaired.) > - 12 armor units > - 20 infantry > > Map: as decided upon by the players. A suburban map is recommended. Where do we get a suburban mapsheet? Especially in a non-flat place like Portland.... (I suppose to simulate Portland's topograph- ic details, we could wad up the map first....) > [As mentioned, the Mk III is a bit off-kilter.] Yes -- it's configured for superspeedways, not road courses. :) > Objective: > Free the minis from Target. The children who have been tormenting the > hostages are to be... well, Targetted. Too late. The place was plucked clean by the time I got there. And a Dodge Ram really doesn't fit too well in the aisles of a Target.... > From: "Noah V. Doyle" > Subject: More Infantry Ideas > How about having infantry suffer D effects like other units, and keep their > defensive adjustments the same? I suggested this a while back. Never got a reply. > It takes 3 D results to kill a platoon, but only 2 to kill a heavy > tank. -HJC] There's only one tank, while there's 18 battlesuits. > From: "Noah V. Doyle" > Subject: Dark Days? > The Dopp, Vulcan and Ninja are MIA. > OM2 is no longer 'In Production'. > Paul Chapman is delayed in answering Ogre-related email. > Is it doom? > Is it gloom? > Or perhaps...is there a silver lining, in silence? > So, we'll wait. And maybe see. Only for people who think minis are a good idea. For me, it's no great loss. > From: "Paul Chapman" > Subject: Ogre Miniatures News > In the second quarter of 2003, I watched the sales > numbers of miniatures (all miniatures, I should note, not just Ogre) > slowly sink. Can't figure that one, considering it takes a $20 game and makes it cost upwards of $1,000.... CF [Committee for the Preservation of Cardboard Counters :) ] ============================== From: Jpattern@aol.com Subject: Ogre Miniatures News Paul wrote: >> In summary, I've been busy, but I am very sorry that we weren't able to get the new figures out as promised. Thanks for sticking around. << Heh! Hang in there, Paul, and thanks for keeping us informed. Speaking for myself, I've been around since the first edition of the OGRE Microgame in the ziploc bag, and I've been buying the minis since the first Martian Metals hit the racks (was it really way back in 1979?), so I can wait a while longer (well, years, if need be) for the new minis. I'll stick around. Jeff Moore jpattern@aol.com ============================== From: David Morse Subject: 'nother timeline gripe Conventional mythology has it that the Paneuropean superheavy was developed to check the Combine Mark I. However, the Mark I was deployed in 2060. The Mark II beat the superheavy to the field in 2066. Then came the Mark III in 2071. Then the Mark V in 2076. Finally, in 2078, the pansies deliver their check to the now thrice-obsolete Mark I: The THOR superheavy tank! 18 years is not a very efficient amount of time to counter the tactical threat. I suggest moving the pansie superheavy up to the late 2060s. Let the combine wait a long time to clone it. It should give the defense something to look forward to. ============================= 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