====== OGRE Digest, November 21st (Last: November 16th) ======== ===== Opportunity fire From: "Chris French" ===== VPs, "the Cisco method" From: stephan beal ===== Rattler Ammo From: David Morse ============================== From: "Chris French" Subject: Opportunity fire > Give the Ogre first shot due to cybernetic speed. Or apply a -1DRM to > snap firing. In a 4-minute turn? Even militia will have plenty of time to line up the target and plant it. > But it will give MSL and HWZ units SOME reason to exist. MSL and HWZ units do have a reason to exist -- Infantry Removal. > Subject: BattleSuit Thanks for reminding me: I was able to find out what the text of the game said about the scale, and so was able to reconstruct my notes on where the "official" scale went wrong. (Short form: If _BS_ movement scale is carried over to _OGRE_, then INF should have a minimum of 3 MP, and possibly 4. The actual math is a little more involved; interested parties should e-mail me for details.) > [And while I'm thinking of strange rules, I've been looking at the > SATNUC stats from GURPS OGRE and poking around a bit and it seems that if > the OGRE rattler missile carried a cluster of the smaller SATNUC warheads > rather than it's usual big nuke it could carry over 600 of them and that's > enough to smother most of a square mile. We could call this missile "Munchkin".... This is why the only part of _GURPS OGRE_ -- or, indeed, *any* GURPS manual -- I use is the background text. :P ============================== From: stephan beal Subject: VPs, "the Cisco method" > [And where do you get the equipment VPs? If you're using SJ's table, > how do you add new gear? -HJC] Excellent question - we use the SJG VP values for published gear, and guestimate for custom gear. ----- stephan stephan@einsurance.de - http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) 552 92 862 Handy: +49 (179) 211 97 67 "i need a woman who can say, 'honey, can you please take a look at this stack trace while I order the pizza?' and really mean it." ============================== From: David Morse Subject: Rattler Ammo > Ogre Missile Cluster Warheads Do you think it plugs the "LGEV loophole"? I seem to recall a while back sending in a few different ammo types for rattlers. This would fit right in with them. ===== [Not really, LGEVs don't stack that often. At least not when the other guy gets to shoot back. Stack to attack then put one LGEV in each of the 30 hexes that are range 5 from the target. -HJC] ============================== 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