{"id":284,"date":"2016-05-15T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:43:43","slug":"showcase-ogre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Showcase: OGRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one my first fully pimped project and easily one of my favorites.\u00a0 For a long time I’d been interested in Steve Jackson Games<\/a>‘ OGRE<\/a>.\u00a0 I like the simplicity and asymmetry but wasn’t a fan of chits and hex grids nor did the theme seem especially original after I found it 30+ years from it’s introduction.<\/p>\n

Kwanchai Moriya<\/a> is probably my favorite board game artist though he didn’t start out as such.\u00a0 Originally a studio artist (and still is), Kwanchai is an avid board gamer and being an artist, started playing around with retheming out of print games<\/a>.\u00a0 One of his first and most popular was taking OGRE and retheming it into an alternate World War II war game.<\/p>\n

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\"KOGRE<\/a><\/p>\n

Kwanchai’s art and theme really drew me into the game and I had to make a copy for myself.\u00a0 There was some controversy about the legal rights to Kwanchai’s work so it is no longer available<\/a> but I was able to get a hold of the files before they were ripped down.\u00a0 I’m not a fan of chits in games. I recognize that they are extremely efficient but they don’t do anything to immerse me in the game. Being a game-pimper, I really can’t make a project with them so I was thinking about alternative options.<\/p>\n

Making the game with 3D elements seemed the best way to go so first was what to do with the OGRE himself. I thought a few things like a paper standee or maybe a wooden token cut out but a friend of mine suggested maybe going full 3D and making a miniature.\u00a0 I have no talent for that and no time to learn but luckily, he did.\u00a0 It actually turned into a huge project for him and at times I think he regretted the suggestion but what he finally produced was absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n

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residentninja’s Kwanchai inspired robot<\/p><\/div>\n

We had a lot of discussion on size and scale and ultimately decided to help emphasize “Robbie’s” (as we called him) size, we went with 6mm\/ Z scale.\u00a0 I started sourcing 6mm German WWII soldiers and vehicles and found a lot of great options.<\/p>\n

I ended up going with CinC miniatures<\/a> for the figures and the vehicles from Historical Board Gaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"OGRE<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OGRE<\/a><\/p>\n

Next we needed the houses to block terrain.\u00a0 I covered how I made these in my Paper Terrain post<\/a> but it was easy to make them in scale.<\/p>\n

\"terrain<\/a><\/p>\n

\"terrain<\/a><\/p>\n

With all the pieces assembled and ready, I grabbed a couple of cheap Trivial Pursuit games from a thrift shop and remade the main board by printing out the board images in pieces and using spray adhesive to the Trivial Pursuit boards and laminating them.<\/p>\n

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I made some reference pieces, grabbed dice from Flames of War, and found a tray to put it all in and that was it.<\/p>\n

\"OGRE<\/a><\/p>\n

My fully rethemed and 3D version of OGRE.<\/p>\n

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This was the first entry I ever submitted to Boardgamegeek’s Pimp Your Boardgame contest<\/a>.\u00a0 It placed 4th against some stiff competition but I was still very happy with the results and I think of this game as the catalyst that got me pimping games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one my first fully pimped project and easily one of my favorites.\u00a0 For a long time I’d been interested in Steve Jackson Games‘ OGRE.\u00a0 I like the simplicity and asymmetry but wasn’t a fan of chits and hex grids nor did the theme seem especially original after I found it 30+ years from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143,144,15,34,142,108,35,107,7,105,141,134,112,139,146,111,145],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","tag-3d","tag-6mm","tag-boardgamegeek","tag-contest","tag-historical-boardgaming","tag-kwanchai-moriya","tag-monthly-pimp-my-boardgame","tag-ogre","tag-painting","tag-paper-terrain","tag-retheme","tag-shapeways","tag-steve-jackson-games","tag-thrift-store","tag-trivial-pursuit","tag-world-war-ii","tag-z-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}