Dining Room Battles  | 05 Feb 2020 2:48 p.m. PST |
As a teenager sometime back in the 19th Century I had the original Ogre and GEV (Ground Effect Vehicle) board games which were (need I say) cool. If you are not familiar with the basic scenario one side has a combined force of heavy tanks, missile tanks, artillery, GEV's (armored hovercraft), armored infantry and a command post. The other side has an Ogre – a giant cybernetic tank. Oh and the best part it's cool! (Whoops, already said that). link |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 05 Feb 2020 3:57 p.m. PST |
I loved this game back in the day.  |
 Herkybird | 05 Feb 2020 4:19 p.m. PST |
I liked the infantry game, Battlesuit! |
| Yellow Admiral | 05 Feb 2020 7:50 p.m. PST |
I've been purging my collections for years now. My Ogre/GEV collection has stubbornly resisted purging. The game is a classic. - Ix |
| Chuckaroobob | 05 Feb 2020 8:22 p.m. PST |
First bought it back when it was $2.95 USD. Have bought just about every version since then, too. |
| DisasterWargamer | 05 Feb 2020 8:32 p.m. PST |
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 Bashytubits | 05 Feb 2020 8:54 p.m. PST |
My friends and I played this recently with a WW2 theme. TMP link |
| SBminisguy | 06 Feb 2020 9:58 a.m. PST |
Love to see your Ogre stats for that game, Bashytubits! |
| Andrew Walters | 06 Feb 2020 10:05 a.m. PST |
That game changed my life. |
| Legion 4 | 06 Feb 2020 11:01 a.m. PST |
Yes I had the original board game, decades ago. I liked it ! Think I still have it in my stuff ! |
| emckinney | 06 Feb 2020 12:40 p.m. PST |
Played Ogre several times last year as part of a general gaming binge. Battlesuit was … interesting. Only played once and not sure that it really worked out. There's a guy who's made a lot of maps for it and other stuff. On BGG? |
| Bashytubits | 06 Feb 2020 1:24 p.m. PST |
We used the OGRE miniatures rules and statted it as an OGRE MK III. Shermans were used as medium tanks, M26 was used as Super Hvy tanks the made up hover vehicles as a standard GEV, basically as written in the rules with WW2 models as stand ins for the units. |
| SBminisguy | 07 Feb 2020 4:58 p.m. PST |
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| 79thPA | 07 Feb 2020 5:40 p.m. PST |
I don't think that I ever won a game of that against my brother. |
| Dining Room Battles | 07 Feb 2020 5:59 p.m. PST |
I've yet to beat Honorable Son #3! |
USAFpilot  | 07 Feb 2020 7:30 p.m. PST |
I've heard the name but have never played a game. Looked online and discovered that the current game is in its 6th edition and sells for about $34. USD I also saw a "designers" edition which comes in a huge box and sells for $125 USD – $200 USD+, but no figures just large cardboard counters. |
| Whitestreak | 08 Feb 2020 8:21 p.m. PST |
The "counters" you mention are combined to make the miniatures, like the one in the original post in this thread. You can order miniatures that not not like these, from SJGames directly, and possibly resellers, as well. (I hope this didn't come across as snarky, I'm just trying to be informative.) |
| Yellow Admiral | 08 Feb 2020 9:44 p.m. PST |
You can also do a DIY print-and-play by downloading the rules and the maps from http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/resources/, and either using miniatures or making your own counters for the units. This is basically how I've assembled my own Ogre/GEV collection (with miniatures), though I have spent quite a bit of money on SJG Ogre items along the way. - Ix |
| USAFpilot | 09 Feb 2020 7:35 a.m. PST |
Thank you both; good info. |
 Parzival | 10 Feb 2020 11:59 a.m. PST |
Begins fanboy chant: "O-gre! O-gre! O-gre!" I love Ogre. Evidence:
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