Ogre revisited

Squeezed in an unusual daytime, mid-week game this week.  Usually my gaming is pretty much all confined to evenings (the joys of working for a living!) but I was visiting a friend who's been poorly and, as well as a catch up and setting the world to rights, we decided to try a quick and relatively undemanding game.

I bought Ogre probably around 1978-80.. definitely when I was still at school.  I think this came from shop on Glasgow's Great Western Rd... Games Gallery?  This version comes in a plastic wallet and not in a ziploc bag so I reckon it's a very early edition... it's Microgames #1 which I believe pre-dates the Steve Jackson Games versions. We played it to death when I was at school but it hasn't been played in over 40 years, so would it stand the test of time?

We went with the standard scenario which pits a Mk III Ogre against an assortment of armour and infantry.  My memory of the game is that the Ogre can be stopped but it's a tough ask, and that certainly proved to be the case.  In my defence my dice rolling was pretty poor but the Ogre pretty much wiped out everything in its path.  I made a rookie error and deployed my infantry too far forward which meant some of them were bypassed (I'd imagine they were pleased as at least they survived!).  Andrew's Ogre steamrollered it's way down the map and ran over my Command Post, winning the game easily.

The game certainly brought back fond memories and I think it still holds up pretty well.  I recently picked up GEV and it would to try this at some point and see how it integrates and maybe try some of the other Ogre scenarios