Next up in my short series of nostalgic boardgame purchases is G.E.V which is a sequel of sorts to the more famous Ogre. Ogre is a game played a lot when it first came out. I think my copy came from a games shop on Glasgow's Great Western Road (Games Gallery? )
Following the success of Ogre, which pitted a single monster cybernetic tank against a range of more conventional tanks, GEVs, infantry, and artillery, GEV is more of a conventional game with a range of troops types on both sides including mobile howitzer, light tanks and even a train. The terrain also gets a bit of a revamp... Ogre takes place in a bit of a wasteland while GEV includes forests, swamps, water and towns. Ogres feature if you want, but it's much more of a conventional near-future game.
There are a number of scenarios ranging from Breakthrough, Raid to attacking a train.
There's also the option to create your own with a points system. Thankfully it keeps the simple mechanics from Ogre... combat results are based on a simple ratio basis (with that icon of 80s boardgames, a CRT) and either result in no effect, disrupted or destroyed. It's the right level of simplicity for a game like this and makes it nice and speedy.
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It's a nice extension to the classic Ogre game without taking away from the simplicity of the original.
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