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MrAverage — Ogre Coelacanth
Published: 2011-10-03 03:01:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 7160; Favourites: 95; Downloads: 0
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Steve Jackson Games' Ogre [link] is my favorite boardgame ever ever ever. And as I'm sure you can see, it was what started my lifelong obsession with gigantic tanks. Preferably robotic ones. This is one from a scenario for the game called Last Of The Red-Hot Coelacanths, featuring an Ogre (a cybernetic tank) which was powered by enormous hovercraft engines and carried a bevy of fearsome weapons. Over on the SJGames forums, the subject of the Coelacanth came up and I decided to draw one, as I was suffering terrible art block on my comic 6-Commando. I think it turned out well.Related content
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OHH-GRE.Ditto on the game!Still have a copy packed away-somewhere's.GEV also.Still have a collection of home made maps hand drawn onto copy's of hex paper.
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It's an unsophisticated game, to be sure, but still a lot of fun to play.
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You know, this strikes me, design wise, as something akin to the pre-dreadnought battleships - big honking piece of steel, lots of comparatively small guns dotted all over. Looking at it , I can see primary, secondary AND tertiary batteries.
But then again, when you think of it, it''s pretty much the same situation with early ww2 heavy tanks, which were multi-turret monsters (Vickers A1E1 Independent, Medium Mark III, T-35, T-28, SMK, Neubaufahrzeug, Char C2... the list can go on)
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Trip! Almost looks like a hover tank! 
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Cool! maybe you should ask Steve Jackson Games if they Plan to make Your OGRE.
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I did, and they don't.
Their loss!
--M
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Too Bad! Your Design was Super Cool!
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That looks GREAT!I'm an Ogre fan from WAY back in the day.
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If you get a few minutes, shoot me a line as I've got a request for you.
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They are actually bringing Ogre back. They started a kickstarter for it and it's going nuts:
[link]
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I know! I'm so super stoked.
--M
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looks like the mutant of a ueber-heavy tank and a vacuum cleaner
sorry never heard of the game, so i dont know to fear this thing
besides i like the writing. whats the font you used for the name?
cheers
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Used to love to play this game, back in the day! Nicely done.
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Did you ever play Ogre? I've been a huge fan since the first edition. Like the FIRST edition.
This one is really hard to beat in a game. You need to slow it down really fast or it will basically ruin your whole day.
--M
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My brother was a huge fan of the boardgame, so I'm well-acquainted with the series, but the only version that I actually played was the 1986 DOS computer game.
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Oh, a pale comparison. You couldn't even use cruise missiles in that version! Or the Mark IV Ogre, my personal favorite! Man, oh man, late Cold War boardgames of the '70's and '80's... what a time to be alive!
--M
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Now this is a blast from the past.
To clarify for those who have never heard of OGRE, let alone played it, the idea is that one massive beast of a vehicle, called an OGRE, is pitted against an army of smaller, but much more numerous vehicles. Will the OGRE win through brute force and destructive power? Or will the army of smaller vehicles win the day through maneuverability and superior tactics?
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You might want to rethink the propulsion system. A ramjet, by definition is an air-breathing propulsion system that travels so fast that it doesn't need turbine blades to compress incoming air before thermal ignition through some sort of combustible fuel. The way the description is written, it's as if you expect a low-clearance hovercraft to race along the ground at Mach 2-3 and use a nuclear pile to heat it's exhaust into an afterburner effect. If the nuclear material isn't directly involved in the thermal dynamics of the engine, it's probably only heating a hydrodynamic core to turn the (clearly visible) jet engine blades.
Even the most famous ramjet aircraft ever, the SR-71 Blackbird, used turbine blades before reaching sufficient Mach+ speed to allow locking the turbine blades. And then, the intense heat generated from wind friction at those speeds necessitated the body be built so loosely that the Blackbird leaked fuel like a sieve while on the tarmac, otherwise the thermal-expansion of the frame and body plates would cause them to shatter.
Also, there's a reason that the A-10 Warthog is simultaneously the most heavily armed and armored fighter plane in service to the US Air Force, while also being the only manned non-supersonic.
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I suppose I ought to call it a "turbofan," in fairness. It just SOUNDED so COOL!
--M
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nice,(but its vunrable from the rear and rear flanks)
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It is indeed. But in Ogre, most combat happens with tactical nuclear weapons at ranges of several miles, so that rarely becomes an issue. Although, in the game rules for the Coelacanth, its propulsion is very vulnerable.
--M
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hmm my "Reaver" drones could skitter into its flanks burrow and detonate destroying it before it would get in range.
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