From DavidV - 6mm Paneuro Mobile Infantry and Heavy Tanks [Caprica] (57 points)

 

I have played Steve Jackson's game Ogre since it was a Metagaming pocket game in the late 1970's. I even got a detention from the Principal at school once, playing Ogre with a friend instead of attending study hall. 

For those unaware, the game is a fast playing sci-fi game pitting giant, A.I. controlled atomic supertanks (the "Ogres") against futuristic combined arms forces consisting of various tanks, hovercraft, artillery, and powered Mobile Infantry. Each armour or infantry unit (or each Ogre subcomponent, like its main battery, or its tread units) has a rating for move, attack, and defense. A simple CRT gives odds for the results of (combined) attacks, which include destruction, disablement, or NE. Any reasonable Ogre attack will disable or eliminate a unit, but there are a lot of enemy units trying to slow it down and pull its teeth. 

The original vehicle designs, by Winchell Chung, have stood the test of time. The tall sensor tower of the North American Combine Ogres, and the sleek Paneuropean tanks and blowers, have become iconic. In recent years, Steve Jackson Games started producing 6mm scale plastic models of the various Ogres and Paneuropean ground forces. They have future plans to do Combine tanks etc. 

To start my Paneuro collection, I have completed a battalion of Mobile Infantry; each of the 42 models represents a single 4-6 man squad, and each of the 14 3-model stands is a platoon. They are supporting 8 Heavy Tanks; fast, hard hitting AFV's, whose sole weakness is the relatively short range of their tac nuke shells.

After assembly, I primed all the units with GW Chaos Black, and laid in flat white zenithal highlighting with an airbrush. The base blue of the tanks and infantry consisted of several washes of GW Drakenhoff Nightshade  . I then laid in highlights and details with oil paints, and did some light weathering with powders. The infantry bases were finished with GW Martian Ironcrust, to simulate the blasted landscape of the Ogre Designer's Edition map board (seen in a couple of the photos).

The relative sizes of the Paneuropean models against my Combine Ogre Mark III can be seen in the comparison photos. I had actually prepped the Ogre for last year's Challenge, but only started painting it last month; it does not count for the Challenge. I do have a couple of other Ogres planned; a Combine Ogre Mk. V, and a Paneuropean Fencer. All these supertanks are the size of a 20mm scale tank, or even larger. How do we score those for points?

Anyways, (42 x 0.5) points of 6mm  Mobile Infantry, and (8 x 2) points of 6mm Heavy Tanks should come in at  a modest 37 points. Add 20 points for Caprica (Doomed). The mark of a good Ogre player is how they handle their infantry, but the poor bloody MI are going to die as fast as you send them in, Bi-Phase Carbide battle armour notwithstanding. This should total 57 points for my first entry into this year's Challenge.

These look great David!   You are taking me back a long way with Ogre.  I used to play with a guy who played it so often he had Xeroxed a copy of the map with the three artillery units in what he considered the perfect hexes.  Back in the late 70s, Xeroxing was a process.

I agree on your points and will get these updated by end of day. One quick reminder, Curt likes to have exclusive posting for the first 24 hours before you post them yourself.  I saw these on your Group Blog on Sunday.    I also added a "Caprica" label  because Curt or Miles might be tracking these things.