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<blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9608779" data-attributes="member: 25818">Back when the little black box games were in the process of losing the company money (seriously, at one point the box prices rose but they kept charging the same amount -- $2.50, I thin? -- so they ended up, in the final accounting, losing a few cents for each unit sold), I was only able to get in on a few games of Ogre, and picked that one up. I absolutely loved it, bought everything else for it, and never got into another game. The group I knew that played those little games a lot never really invited me, probably because I wasn't a very strong tactical player. I loved the short fiction pieces that should up in The Space Gamer for the setting. At the time, I always intended to run a game in the Ogre universe. One guy might play a GEV pilot, another a power-suit Infantry guy. Another might play an agent or something. You're all that's left of your respective units, and are in a mostly-ruined city that is still being menaced by an Ogre Mark III. How do you survive? Can a few individuals even have an impact on an Ogre? I never got anyone to bite.Since then, I've picked up a lot of these and did the SJ Games Kickstarter. I love the concept, but always had trouble finding people to play them with. That's why I had a kid -- I'm making my own gamer to play games with!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RealAlHazred, post: 9608779, member: 25818"] Back when the little black box games were in the process of losing the company money (seriously, at one point the box prices rose but they kept charging the same amount -- $2.50, I thin? -- so they ended up, in the final accounting, losing a few cents for each unit sold), I was only able to get in on a few games of [I][B]Ogre[/B][/I], and picked that one up. I absolutely loved it, bought everything else for it, and never got into another game. The group I knew that played those little games a lot never really invited me, probably because I wasn't a very strong tactical player. I loved the short fiction pieces that should up in [B][I]The Space Gamer[/I][/B] for the setting. At the time, I always intended to run a game in the [B][I]Ogre [/I][/B]universe. One guy might play a GEV pilot, another a power-suit Infantry guy. Another might play an agent or something. You're all that's left of your respective units, and are in a mostly-ruined city that is still being menaced by an Ogre Mark III. How do you survive? Can a few individuals even have an impact on an Ogre? I never got anyone to bite. Since then, I've picked up a lot of these and did the SJ Games Kickstarter. I love the concept, but always had trouble finding people to play them with. That's why I had a kid -- I'm making my own gamer to play games with! [/QUOTE]

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