New Ogre Mini

Here's a pic of a new Combine LGEV miniature for Steve Jackson's Ogre game:
http://sjgames.com/ogre/

Can't wait to see more. When I talked with SJG employees at GenCon, they
said to expect new stuff to be available around October / November this
year.

Now I need to finish my suggestions for DSII updates...

> At 15:52 2000-09-17 -0500, you wrote:

I hope the prototype is not to scale. The light GEV looked like a size 4
vehicle in DS2 terms (judging by the woodgrain in the photo).

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> At 07:48 PM 9/17/00 -0400, you wrote:

It's not quite *that* big. I have a few of these guys; SJG is using the
original Partha molds, and it's about equal to a size 3 vehicle. It's only
slightly smaller than the NON-Light GEV, but I think that it looks
pretty damned good. And they are even better painted.

According to the casting page, they're going to be selling them: "...in two
formats; large Boxed Sets which will include rules, maps, and playable armies,
and small 'Company Packs' which will include organized units of one
nationality, based on TO&Es we'll be publishing.

"The Boxed Sets and Company Packs will be packaged in plastic carrying cases
(video boxes) similar to those used for some of our game products, with foam
inserts. As each Set or Pack is released, its individual vehicles (without
packaging) will become available through Warehouse 23. For November, we'll be
releasing a Boxed Set with a Combine Army and a Paneuropean Mk III Ogre (it's
easy to tell them apart; the PE Ogres speak with an English accent). That same
month will see the debut of two Company Packs: the Ogre Mk V and the Combine
Heavy Armor Company."

I like what they are doing with the Ogres -- they are selling them with
extra secondary batteries, to replace ones that get lost over the course of
play, and with an extra tower mounted on a seperate base, to represent a
submerged Ogre.