07-31-2018, 01:52 PM | #191 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Lancaster, PA
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
Mine hit too! If my math is right [pre-shipment today, shipping starts tomorrow, 2 days' transit from there], it'll be here Friday.
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07-31-2018, 04:11 PM | #192 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
I got my mat today at 3 PM (I live in Austin, so it wasn't far). I've already posted on Google Plus about it.
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08-01-2018, 08:07 AM | #193 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Lancaster, PA
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
I'm pleased to admit being wrong! USPS was able to process the package yesterday, so it's set to arrive tomorrow.
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08-01-2018, 02:13 PM | #194 |
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
Playmat M1 just arrived here in St. Louis, and the quality is everything I'd hoped for. Very happy I spent the money for it as an add-on!
For the record, the material is just about 2mm thick, and extremely well printed. We've already decided to use it for our regular Monday game on the 6th. The question is, what scenario might work best? Any ideas from the gallery? Now the begging starts, can we please, please get the orange map in this same fashion? Last edited by Mack_JB; 08-01-2018 at 02:29 PM. |
08-01-2018, 03:08 PM | #195 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The North American Combine
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
Any word on when this will be up for sale on WH23, as I want to pick one up? I messed up, forgot to get my preorder in, and when I went to do it, the preoders were shutdown.
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08-01-2018, 03:24 PM | #196 |
Join Date: May 2007
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
I got mine as well. I've decided to not trim the mats, as they're thin enough to overlap. The printing is better than I expected. With a little care, I expect these should last a long, long time.
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08-01-2018, 04:03 PM | #197 | |
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Lancaster, PA
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
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Fair warning: It's a truckload of Militia and a few regular units trying to inflict a bunch of casualties before they get squished. I'm torn on whether to give 3 Mk.Is or 4...3 "feels" better in terms of VP balance, but leads to the Combine being outnumbered in a BIG way, and a few lucky hits against Primaries could leave the Combine toothless in a hurry. I removed some time-based incentives [giving the Combine reinforcements, to further drive home the "You aren't winning. Your job is to make this battle costly then run away" for the defender], but want to playtest that before I drop it in. The final version will probably be more along the lines of "A wave of conventional units to soften the Separatists up, and then Ogres to crush them"...feels like that'd be more interesting, but is going to be more difficult to balance, so...baby steps.
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08-01-2018, 04:04 PM | #198 | |
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Parma, OH
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
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The Ogrezine article "Going Downtown" seems to have been written specifically with this map in mind (what a coincidence!), as well as being a generally excellent article on urban warfare. "The Rise & Fall of Pittsburgh" has some scenario seeds that may be useful in developing scenarios to use on this map. My mat is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Once I get it, I'll start thinking hard about scenarios. At the moment, I'm imagining something about trying to seize & hold those bridges... |
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08-01-2018, 09:47 PM | #199 | |
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Dallas
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
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I will use the Going Downtown rules. Any preferences on which of the following you all think I should focus on: 1. Siege Relief (defender has forces in the city and a relief column entering from a side), attacker surrounding the city. 2. House Divided with two armies encamped on either side of the river 3. GEV Down where one side sends in a light force to find an enemy leader and faces serious Partisan resistance. Victory points for extracting the guys that get in trouble. 4. A race by both players to capture City Hall in a neutral city (with the neutral a separate faction) 5. Attacker trying to dislodge a dug in defender (door to door slugfest.) |
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08-02-2018, 06:38 AM | #200 |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cumbria/Northumberland border, UK
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Re: Ogre Playmat M1 Preorders at Warehouse 23
I think the 'Going Downtown' article (Ogrezine, p.16-18) and also the Scenario Hook: Underground Combat (Ogrezine, p.14-15) will both be invaluable with this Playmat.
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