[Ogre] 'hot' repairs

[David Morse]

On 5/30/05, White Rat <whiterat at bastet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005 "Chris French" <csadn at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >> and none of the units
> >> involved [...] fire
> >
> > OK, I can understand why a track couldn't be repaired while the
> > OGRE is moving, but what does firing have to do with it? I'd allow
> > the OGRE to fire (the engineers are too busy,  of course).
> 
> Getting engineers to walk up to an active, live OGRE off the battlefield
> probably takes some doing. Getting them to walk up to that big a fire
> magnet in a hot zone, with the knowledge that yes, if it decides to move,
> and decides you are of less tactical importance than it is (which you
> likely are), it will crush you without a nanosecond's hesitation is a
> whole 'nother matter. If the OGRE is actually shooting and participating
> in combat, it'd take a very level-headed person to go near it, battlesuit
> or no, I'd say.

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