Re: (TFT) Ogre 6th edition.

[Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>]

>From http://www.sjgames.com/ill/a/2011-03-12 :
This will be the kind of hex wargame that we dreamed about 30 years ago, back when our heroes were SPI and Avalon Hill. HUGE double-sided map boards. HUGE full-color counters with HUGE type. A HUGE box to hold them in. And giant constructible Ogres!

Itbs going to retail for $100, and it isnbt full of plastic toys. Itbs a classic hex wargame, and those arenbt in fashion. Herebs why I hope you DO want it:

    * Itbs a humongous, heavy box that will have a huge shelf presence. How big is it? Over twice the size of Munchkin Quest. It takes three copies of the original edition of Ogre to cover up the word "OGRE" on this box.
    * Itbs got three huge mapboards with 1.5b hexes, and big full-color counters. The Ogre and building counters are 3-D constructible miniatures!
    * I donbt expect to keep this in print. Realistically, I expect to print it once and let people spend the next 30 years fighting over the remaining copies. The people who get it are going to show it off at parties and conventions.
    * Itbs a pretty good game, if I say so myself. A lot of people remember it. (More than 25 years after its original release, Ogre won a spot in Hobby Games: The 100 Best.) Some of them would love to drop $100 for a beautiful version of the game they played 20 or 30 years ago, whether it was in high school, or in Germany or Kuwait or some classified spot in the middle of the Pacific.

The box is apparently going to be 12 pounds or so.  I will so be getting
one of these.

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