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From: hyc@hanauma.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: PD Ogre game

Well, I just dug up my copy of this game from usenet, posted way back in '87.
Kind of fun, although after I added light tanks and mobile howitzers it got
to be far too easy. The mobile howitzers don't seem much more effective, but
with light tanks at 1/2 a point each, you can literally inundate the Mk 3
or Mk 5 ogre with incoming firepower. And, you get all the advantages of
playing the odds by picking as many 1/1 attacks as you like. I guess part of
the secret is in presenting the ogre with more targets; it's a particularly
cheap way of neutralizing the ogre's missiles. (Ogre 3 fires both its missiles
at two light tanks - who cares if the tanks live or die, you just got rid of
two missiles for the price of one armor unit. Cheap!) After getting rid of
the main battery, I just pound on the tread units until they're all gone...

Sorry if this is old news to all of you. Since I just dug up the game last
night, I've been trying out all the old tactics that I remembered, like the
5 howitzer defense, etc... With a poor computer random number generator, this
game can get pretty frustrating. But when you have pieces to spare, it still
doesn't matter. Although there's a slight disadvantage in that you can't get
all your tanks into range 2 to actually fire....
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	[Without the ridgelines, conventional units can bash ogres fairly
well, but why not turn legit and get a C64 to run the approved version of
the computer game on?  -HJC]

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu	SFB Tyrant