"You can't say civilization don't advance ...
for in every war, they kill you in a new way."

- Will Rogers

The latest datapulse from CP Bravo Echo includes the following tactical updates for: FEBRUARY 02, 2024 AD]
 

• Wow.  It's been over a decade since I last updated this site.  Eleven years.  In that time, I kind of gave up on OGRE ... well, not on OGRE but on Steve Jackson Games because all I saw coming out of SJG was a never-ending avalanche of Munchkin crap (still haven't played that game because I thought that any game you could find for sale in Walgreens on the shelf next to Yahtzee wasn't really a SJG game worth buying ...).  OGRE seemed like a step-child ... forgotten and neglected.  Ditto for Car Wars, two games that had literally made SJG what it is today, two games that I grew up playing but two games that SJG seemed to have forgotten about.  I digress ...
  

• Well, I broke down and bought myself a copy of the OGRE: Designer's Edition.  It's huge, it was used, much loved, and I got the O:DE (complete), along with a Ogre 6th edition set, Barbarians at the Gate, Ogre Reinforcements, 12 Ogre die, and a set of the traditional black and white counters for use with the larger maps ... all for ... $50.  The Force is strong with me.  Once I got everything punched out and bagged, I discarded the plastic insert tray (bottom tray) since it was pretty much useless and it was starting to come apart anyway.  All counters are sorted now in Ziploc bags, all maps folded and stored, the rules and supplements are organized and the whole thing fits in one big box that weighs 24.2 pounds. Will I ever play this version of the game? Probably not. It's big, heavy, impractical to carry around, requires a substantial amount of space to setup and ... you can still do everything this game does with the pocket sized 1977 pocket OGRE or the 1980's clasp box editions or the 2000's VHS box edition (my personal favorite). My thought here is ... any game that fits in your car's trunk rather than your backpack and takes longer to set up than the original pocket sized took to play, well ...
  

• Updated rules, added some new stuff like new rules for craters (units can now enter craters), missile tanks being used to shoot down OGRE missiles as well as provide area defence, and some new ideas / rules on OGRE missiles.

• Working on some new fiction, complete rewrites of "Dawn of the Bear" and "Ain't no free lunch" plus two NEW original pieces of fiction with micro-scenarios linked. Speaking of that, working on a new idea of a OGRE / GEV micro-scenario - super fast setup and play using a handful of counters and a micro-map.
  
• Working on "TROLL" - I had a revelation on how to bring OGRE / GEV down to the personnel level without the mechanics of BATTLESUIT  ... *AND* using the basic counters provided in OGRE and GEV.
  

• I've still got all of my OGRE / GEV stuff ... including two copies of the original black OGRE BOOK, original copies of all the supplements, OGRE in the bag (actual Metagaming MicroGame 1), OGRE and GEV in the cardboard box, OGRE in the clasp box ... somewhere in my junk I've got an unfinished OGRE Mark V metal miniature.  Time to get OGRE'ing.

• General site maintenance.

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