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SudsySutherland — SA 25JUN12 Ogre vs bipedal battle mecha
Published: 2012-06-26 07:13:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1323; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 0
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I’m a bit excited about the latest version of Steve Jackson Games FLAGSHIP product. It all started as a “Microgame” pocket game in the late 1970′s and has bloomed… Inspired by Keith Laumer’s “Bolo” GIANT self aware cybertanks, Ogres are much grittier and live in a bit of more Cold War world inspired world of the North American Combine, Paneuropean Union, and Nihon Empire. They also sling around nukes all the time… Making them much more devastating than other weapons systems in SF… Not that I don’t have plenty of bi-pedal armored war machines floating around in my own game collection…Related content
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A long time back I did stats for an Ogre in BT. Yeah, it was about that bad. An Ogre's AP rounds figure out to 25 points of damage in BattleTech. (And that was figuring the minimum damage that they'd be.)
AP: 25 points
2B: 70 points (originally 1 hit, but after it blew straight through an Awesome, switched to spread 7 (7 hits, 10 damage).
1B: 90 points (spread 9)
MSL: 140 points (spread 14)
One missile, one Overlord dropship.
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LOL!
I just looked at the game scales when I was younger and made my general comparison based on the size of the hexes... "If a GEV can level a town hex with X amount of damage, and that hex is X.X km, meanwhile a Battletech building has XX structure points and an AC/20 needs to do XXX damage to destroy a building..."
Sadly, I don't have the rules in front of me, but you illustrated the point more beautifully than I could have! Both games are loads of fun though... Its just fun to think of the meeting of a self aware cybertank and an arrogant Atlas Mechwarrior....
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Did you mean Cold War? Maybe not, I am not up on my military sci fi.
looking forward to seeing what you submit for the Oger art work you mentioned.
You killed me playing similar games when we were kids, never really developed an affinity for dice driven RPG's but I have a heathy respect for this one.
Dad's pretty excited for you. Good luck.
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Fixed my typo! At least on DA, now got to fix my blog... Typical! I'm toast without spell check! I need an editor!
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Hear hear.
BTW I have been co authoring a blog with Shalimar,
Check it out.
www.lifevictorious.com
I go by the handle I use here, pretty easy to find. She kind of started a real catholic mom's group of sorts, I am one of three women currently submitting posts on a regular basis.
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Big walking target! Yeah, a bipedal design would be screwed, now a four or more legs if they could get it to work might be advantageous depending upon the terrain negotiating and the ability of it to bring a superior weapons system to field.
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