Re: (TFT) The lost weekend

[Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com>]

;-)


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 From: gem6868 <gem6868@veri
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To: tft@brainiac.com 
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I don't think it's neanderthal 
at all.  The original OGRE counters have 
classic period graphics, and 
those cool digital numbers.  Then again, I'm a 
geezer at this point.
  My son is probably never going to believe that my 
friends and I wrot
e on bits of paper that we sent by hand and machine all 
over the world.
  But I have the evidence, I say it's more human, and Im' 
sticking to 
it.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeffrey Vandine
Sent: Monday
, August 04, 2014 2:15 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) The l
ost weekend

Ogre truly is an awesome experience -- it provides that sa
me sort of viscer
al, visual impact that the old SPI monster games did wh
en they were set up
on the ping pong table back in the day!  I'm enjoyi
ng my copy too (though
, I must admit my secret vice -- I ordered two cop
ies of the "classic count
ers" just so I COULD relive the old glory days 
on the new maps at the new s
cale.  I know, how very neanderthal of me!
).


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Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 10:21 AM

Subject: Re: (TFT) The lost week
end


there but for the Grace o
f God, went I.  ;)

-----Origin
al Message----- 
From: Joe Hartle
y
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 12:36
PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
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ct: (TFT) The lost weekend

No, not th
e movie with Ray Milland, but 
my weekend with the Ogre
Designer's Edition
.

The counters took me
 7 hours to punch and assemble!  Then my OCD k
icked in
and I spent s
ome time trying to find the best way of arranging t
he counters
in the 
box, culminating in my finding a set of dividers onlin
e, which meant
t
hat I was off to Staples to get some card stock and a las
er-guided paper

cutter.  (To be fair, my girlfriend is an artist who us
es a paper c
utter a
lot and had previously mentioned her desire for a new
one, so i
t wasn't a
one-off thing, but frikkin' lasers on a paper cutter
!  Sc
ience!!)

By Sunday I was able to start playing some solo scenar
ios 
to re-acquaint
myself with the rules.  I've played 3 times now with
t
he Ogre winning each
time.

Back in 1977 when I first got Ogre, I p

layed it so many times with the
tiny chits and maps, I thought a few t
ime
s it'd be nice to have a bigger
set, but this is mindblowing.


I gave
my son one of the pocket editions I bought a week or two back,
w
hen he's
back down we can have a massive tankfest!  Who knew 35 years l
ater
the
se Metagaming titles would still be a big part of my gaming?


-- 
e Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.com
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 deviation f
rom the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
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