The Hap-Happiest Day of the Year

It Came From The Future, Or At Least Texas

Oh happy day! I return from my morning Sonic run to find a “yuge” box on my front porch… a box from Texas… which can only mean…

MY OGRES ARE HERE!

Da Box!

(Not to mention a whole lotta tanks.)

Whole Lotta Stuff inside!

Anudda Box!

 It was like what you always imagined the experience would be like when you ordered the “footlocker” of toy soldiers from the back of the comic book; only this time, the imagination paid off, in SPADES!

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

For clarity, this is the Ogre* Miniatures Set 2 “Many Minis” box from Steve Jackson Games’ Kickstarter (I already have Set 1, though this time I went whole hog…)

Envy Me

I’ve got

Ogres (Mk III, Mk IV, Mk V— all AI übertanks)

Fencers (and Fencer-Bs— also AI übertanks, with lotsa missiles)

Super Heavy Tanks (two big guns)

Heavy Tanks

Missile Tanks

Light Tanks

GEVs (aka “Hovertanks”)

Light GEVs

Transport GEVs

Howitzers (Not actually tanks)

Mobile Howitzers (okay, not really tanks, but they move and have Honkin’ Big Guns)

Infantry (In power armor, so kinda like pocket tanks for one dude each.)

In da box!

In da udda box!

Goodies!

I’ve got ‘em in Red and Blue, Blue and Red, Green, Gray, Black and Glow In the Dark (so I could play Ogre in the dark— I already have the glow-in-the-dark die—,though to be honest it would be dang hard to see the map or read the combat chart…)

More goodies!

I’ve got 290 of the things now… (actually, more than that… somewhere close to 400 of ‘em, all told, when you add in previous purchases!)

And I’ve got the latest rules and scenarios, some nifty punch-out markers for special situations, and a nice big map for scenarios. And another black die, which you can never have too many of.

Rules, Map and More!

Now, Steve, bring on the Combine forces.**

In the meantime, I’ve got a whole lotta sprue clipping to do…

Get ta work! Those tanks ain't gonna build themselves!

Yours atomically,

Parzival, the Wargamesmonger

*If you don’t know what Ogre is (or what GEV is), please turn in your Gamer Geek card, because you aren’t one. (But you can gain it back. Hie thee to Steve Jackson Games and feast your eyes on OGRE, the Greatest Future Cybertank Game Ever Created. Get it, or find a gamer friend who has it, and play.)

**Except for the Ogres, the forces in Set 1 and 2 are from the Paneuropean Forces in the game setting. The Ogres are from the North American Combine army (you can see some of these designs in this blog entry (the figures there are metal miniatures produced about 20-30 years ago).