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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4830449" data-attributes="member: 54707">One thing you guys might wanna consider reading, even though Mouse said he didn't like military stuff much, is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)" target="_blank">BOLO</a>. The original Bolo material by Keith Laumer.What I really liked about the Bolo is how much it tried to act like a chivalrous human Knight, even though it was an artificial war machine. And it was monstrous, fearless, and unstoppable (most of the time).Most of Laumer's stories tended to be gritty too, like much of McDevitt's stuff.Bolo was a helluvah ride the first time I read those books years and years and years ago.But I'd bet some of you fantasy fans would really like it too, not because the stories were sci-fantasy, they weren't. But because the Bolo was a cross between a Knight and a Dragon. And it fought like a hellion, and just wouldn't give up for nothing, and it always tried to do the right thing no matter who tried to stop it, and it reminded me a lot of a mechanical version of Godzilla (one of my favorite fictional characters). It was just plain admirable, and my kinda monster.I highly recommend it to the sci-fi consuming crowd.By the way, some of my buddies and I used to play Ogre, based on the Bolo. I think it was Steve Jackson made.  I recommend that game as well.</blockquote>