Moe Lane

Got sucked into thinking about Doomsday projections for Car Wars.  Which is, by the way, a pretty freaking gruesome thing to think about on a warm April night.

Moe Lane

PS: You know what’s not gruesome? These exclusive OGRE sponsor counter sheets.  These expensive sponsor counter sheets…

Dear God, I’ve been impressing people by telling them that it was going to be twelve.

The result is a board game that is almost stupidly ambitious, being sold at well below market value. The numbers are hard to wrap your head around.

“The final box will be 24” × 20” × 5.75” and will weigh 24 pounds. It will have five huge maps and more than 1,000 counters, many of them 3-D constructible Ogres and buildings. It will probably never be equaled in sheer size and awesomeness,” Jackson said.

Each box will be shipped in its own carton, Jackson told [PA Report's Ben Kuchera] almost a year ago. Retailers were worried about it fitting on their shelves at all, so they had to trim it down somewhat. Think about that for a bit; the dimensions listed above are for a smaller box than they had planned.

Go ahead and read the whole thing (it’s got some good thoughts about the problems with insanely-successful Kickstarters): I’m just going to be basking in the thought that I – thanks to reader generosity, mind you – get to actually have one of these things.  From the start.  For once.

Moe Lane

OGRE War Room is Steve Jackson Games’ released app for, well, Ogre: and the youngest approves of it.

Hey, you gotta start ‘em early, you know.

The OGRE Book and the OGRE Scenario book and the new PDF version of the OGRE Miniature rules.  Looks pretty nifty; and I should note that iPads are really nice when it comes to reading PDF versions of something.  The slightly smaller screen is (in my opinion) more than made up for by the increased portability; I like laptops and netbooks, but they kind of need flat surfaces.

…Anyway, that’s what I’ve been doing for the last couple of hours.  That, and wishing that it was May so I could get The Big Box Of OGRE.

The kids got into the craft room and the OGRE painting production line a couple of months ago.  The damage… could have been worse; but even the Elder Gods tremble before the innocent destructive power of a toddler.  I’ve meant to fix things, but I’ve been putting it off, thanks to the election.  But we had a babysitter tonight and no dinner plans, so what the heck…

Anyway, no pictures, since the whole point was to put things back the way that they were; also, my painting skills have… not improved with lack of practice.

Taste the rainbow, baby:

I thought that I was recreating the Vatican Guard; apparently, however, the upcoming rampage of Ogrethulhu and its minions will instead be opposed by the forces of Rainbow Sherbert. (more…)

…Somebody did an interview with Phil Reed of SJG about the status of the game.  Take a look:

…apparently, the box is even larger at this point.

Can’t wait.  Heck, I might even have the minis painted by then.

Moe Lane

PS: Also: I need to hit a gamer convention.  I haven’t done one of those in a WHILE.

Because, well, it was about time I painted some of these OGRE miniatures.

(pause)

You will note that there are no photos.  That’s because the first batch came out… well.  There was what was in my head, and then there was what ended up on the miniatures, and then there was the dimensional portal that suddenly opened up and brought the whole thing to the Elemental Plane of Bad Paint Jobs.

(more…)

Details here; I will be there, of course. It should be, as they say, a thing and a half.

I may even have a copy of Pocket OGRE with me…

…they still have the Ogre Mk. III-B.  This is a slightly upgraded version of the ‘standard’ Mk. III used for the basic OGRE scenario; and while it pretty specifically can’t be part of my Ogrethulhu vs. Vatican Guard project it’s still, you know, an Ogre.  I just need a good color scheme for it…

I opened up my latest batch – another thank you for the people who hit the tip jar, thus allowing me to pick up these things – to prep them for primer and I find… this.

Good thing it’s probably not contagious, huh?  Damned if I know what caused this, though.  For all I know, metal minis rot if they’re seventeen years old (which is I think how old these suckers are).

Moe Lane

PS: My wife – who is both an engineer and a minis painter herself (yes, I know, I am very lucky) neither gave an opinion on the subject, nor grabbed the children and ran from the house screaming at the sight.  So I’m assuming ‘weird, but harmless.’

PPS: Heavy weapons tripods for battlesuit troops, in case you were wondering.

…and somebody over there was kind enough to point me out to this.  Made out of Legos, no less.

It’s not that I have wasted my life.  It’s that I clearly need to get out more and hang with people who do these sorts of things.

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, I know that it isn’t a classic OGRE.  Pedants.