[Ogre] Re: Ogre-list Digest, Vol 7, Issue 5

[Chris French]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:55:58 -0500
> From: David Morse <dcmorse at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ogre] Re: The Heavy Missile Tank
> Ok ok.  You can encode the extra state by printing counters with the
> different ammo levels, the way they already do for
> cruise-missile-crawlers.

Lovely -- a six-sided counter ("fully loaded", "one missile fired",
and two missiles fired", plus Disabled versions of above).

> So it comes down to the question of:
> can 30 squads each fire twice against a fully armed, albeit M2-M1 Mark
> V?

I wouldn't know -- my OGREs never get past the massed HVY tanks.
:)

>
> On the other hand, I think all-HMSL will pretty much "break" Breakthrough.

"Breakthrough" has been broken ever since _The OGRE Book_
was published -- there are only three paths off the map for the
soap bubbles, and the starting force seals off all of them neatly.
Not to mention the time scale -- the only path which the GEVs can
take to come anywhere near a Decisive Victory is the river route;
and that's a minimum of three turns, plus however long it takes to
bludgeon the tracks out of the way (and by that point, the GEVs are
mired in Overrun, and die horribly at the hands of masses INF).

It almost explains why the Last War went the way it did. :)

CF