============ OGREverse list, July 18th (Last: July 2nd) ============= ===== Fun with CRT's From: bryan rombough ===== Hoverjeep & one-shot weapons in OGRE From: bryan rombough ===== Gimmie the nukes. From: Patrick Odonnell ===== Eyes forward From: "Garth L. Getgen" ===== Website update From: Nyrath the nearly wise ------------------------------ From: bryan rombough Subject: Fun with CRT's After the June 22nd article about the 6d2 CRT I thought I'd create a table for the d8, just for fun. ----------------------- d8 Combat Results Table ----------------------- COMBAT ODDS ROLL 1-3 1-2 1-1 2-1 3-1 4-1 5-1 1 NE NE NE NE NE D D 2 NE NE NE NE D D X 3 NE NE NE D D X XX 4 NE NE D D X XX XX 5 NE NE D X XX XX XX 6 NE D X XX XX XX XX 7 D X XX XX XX XX XX 8 X XX XX XX XX XX XX If you look, the old CRT is still there, I've just added a column on either side and a row to the top and bottom. This table simply 'flattens out' the odds, 5-1 is no longer a guarenteed kill and a single infantry squad (or light GEV) now has a 12.5% chance of killing a Heavy Tank. Bryan ----- [Wouldn't that shift the game balance in favor of lower-odds attacks? (Which are already more efficent than the big guns anyway...) -HJC] ------------------------------ From: bryan rombough Subject: Hoverjeep & one-shot weapons in OGRE Hoverjeep (HJ) Attack: 1 (AP) Range: 1 (2") Defence: 1 Move: 4/3 (8"/6") Mode: GEV Size: 1 Points: 1.85 (Cobb Formula) Can transport 1/3 (?...well it is just a jeep) of a militia squad or carry a single one-shot weapon: LAW: A:2 R:2 (4") new cost: 2.69 LLAW(laser LAW) A:1 R:30 (60") new cost 7.12 (hmm... is it worth it?) A nippy little jeep for militia to race around in on the fringes of the 21st century battlefield. I used Henry Cobbs Java calculator for the cost of everything but the one-shot laser(the range was too great) I had to do the math myself, & I didn't do anything to account for using LLOS because I don't have the expertise or inclination(more the latter). These little one-shot weapons seem like a perfectly reasonable way to give the little guys (jeeps, trucks, etc...) decent anti-armour punch and for the mecha fans,(that's me!) Just picture them running around with mecha-sized panzerfausts! Another one-shot weapon I like(being an Anime fan) is the rocket pod, little clusters of Attack Strength: 1 Range: 3 (6") missiles. These could be pretty useful, you could fire them off one at a time at an OGRE's treads, or all at once at one of its weapons. I wouldn't know how to account for the WLK movement when calculating the cost though, any ideas? Bryan Rombough ----- [Actually it's Javascript, see my page. -HJC] ------------------------------ From: Patrick Odonnell Subject: Gimmie the nukes. > About those nukes. It would seem that progress on the nuke end is left out > of everyones argument. > True, but with a reason. The current stand of technology does not even come close to allowing one to predict WHEN ... uh ... er ... an *Environmentally Friendly Bomb* will be do-able. The American Gov. has announced funding for research but so far, to the best of my knowledge, there have been NO results. (I don't know, maybe if they take those cobolt jackets off of the bombs first ... Heheh just kidding.) An environmentally kinder bomb. Uh ... Is there any such thing as an environmentally *Kind* bomb? I mean even the ones that just scorch a little bit of earth through normal/non nuclear means still leave *Dents* in the earth's surface, they set woodlands on fire, start rock slides, scatter environmentally *UNKIND* polution all over the place, etc ... Bombs of ALL sorts are meant to make an environment .... any environment ... hostile and undesirable. I think that researchers are going to be looking long and hard for an *Environmentall Friendly* bomb of any kind. It defies the very nature of the devices in question. ------------------------------ From: "Garth L. Getgen" Subject: Eyes forward TO: Dominique Sumner > How can I get a copy of your forward observer article? What Henery said about the URL. But in a shameless plug, a couple years ago, I submitted a bunch of line-of-sight / reaction fire rules which included a forward observer clause. Wish I could remember the date of when that got posted, but it too is in Henry's archive files. Garth L. Getgen ------------------------------ From: Nyrath the nearly wise Subject: Website update In case anybody is interested, I added a few miserable scraps of artwork to the Ogre art site http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/ogre.html Don't miss the portrait of Steve Jackson, and the artwork for the SEDS game. Winch Chung ----- [Yeah! Uh, the Fencer I got don't look nothing like that, but at least the US Army has adopted your design... -HJC] Henry J. Cobb ogre@sjgames.com http://www.io.com/~hcobb All OGRE-related items Copyright (c) 1999, by Steve Jackson Games.