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- From: robert@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Robert Lindsay)
- Subject: Re: GEV: More loot from the Ogre's lair.
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:18:21 GMT
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- > 104: I've bought a bit over 100,000 copies
- > By: Steve Jackson [2]
- >Date: 00:19 12/18/92
- >
- >of Basic GURPS. Why?
- >
- >Oh, never mind . . . <smirk>
- >
- >Sadly, there are no current plans for a big-counter version of OGRE/GEV.
- >Never say never, of course. But if I ever publish a big-hex boardgame version,
- >I'd like to include lotsa little plastic tanks, per Milton Bradley, rather
- >than cardboard. Which is all a pipe dream right now.
-
- Why not do something like what GDW did awhile back with their system 7
- counters? You could do nice overhead shots of all the units, and print the
- on single or double size counters for use with the minatures rules. All you'd
- need is a nice Mac and access to a decent color outpit system. How about it?
-
- >$100 in miniatures for a decent set? Wow. Our *company* Ogre collection -
- >which is *not* small or shabby - wouldn't retail for much more than that. With
- >the exception of the Ogres themselves, of which we have about a dozen, because
- >we like to paint them and because you *need* a dozen to run Exercise K.
-
- OK how much would it cost to get enough mini's to do a basic Mk III battle
- from the Ogre game.
-
- >(Hmm. Note to myself: Translate Exercise K to ASCII and put it in the G-
- >files.)
- >
- >No, the real expense in miniatures is NOT the raw lead. It's the time you put
- >into preparing and painting the figures. Which I do out of love, so it doesn't
- >count. But it's the reason I'm fanatical about carrying boxes . . . don't want
- >to spend hours and hours kitbashing and painting, and then have them get
- >bunged up on the way to a game or a convention.
-
- I understand but a lot of us have no skill at painting, but still would love
- a nice new edition of OGRE. Are you turn off because of the poor reception
- of Deluxe Ogre? I think the problem with it was the stands. I've never
- understood peoples facination with them. I think it detracted from Deluxe
- OGRE
-
- >But the other point on initial expense is that you want to round up a few
- >friends who like the game, spend $20 or $30 each, get together for a few
- >marathon painting sessions, and then field mutually complimentary units which
- >you can expand gradually as time and wallet allows. Avoid at all costs the
- >Thirty Pounds Of Unpainted Lead In My Closet syndrome.
-
- The problem is their are a lot of us who could get their friends to PLAY Ogre
- but there's no way thy will be willing to put up the bux. Or like me, you have
- small children, who are going to eat or damage (or both) the mini's. What do
- we do?
-
- > Henry J. Cobb hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu SFB Tyrant
- > "Once it becomes possible to do something, it gets very difficult to
- >undo it. Whether its automobiles, computers or nuclear weapons, invention has
- >always been the mother of necessity."
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