Bolos

[jchurchill]

http://users.stargate.net/~whkeith/htm/bolo.htm

 

[Ran Targas]

^ Very cool!

 

[Malenfant]

Giant sentient robotic tanks? nuclear weaponry?

I guess SJ's Ogre game wasn't particularly original at all then...

 

[signless]

Only in the sense that they were glomming onto interesting SF ideas before almost anyone else in the industry.
Aside from that, I always thought Laumer's Bolo's could kick some Ogre ass ANY day.

 

[jchurchill]

The Ogre games are most likely an homage to the Bolos. It's not plagarism -- it's an homage!

 

[Redleg58]

http://www.jade-leaves.com/kepper/bolo34/bolo34.html

http://www.gpfn.sk.ca/~geis/bolo/index.html

http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-Other-Vehicles/Bolo-MKXX.htm

http://www.iislands.com/hermit/bolo.html

 

[Redleg58]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
Giant sentient robotic tanks? nuclear weaponry?

I guess SJ's Ogre game wasn't particularly original at all then...

LOL, your not the first with that observation...

 

[signless]

I seem to remember a "Bolo-esque" CT adventure. I think it was called "Loggerhead" or somesuch, possibly in an old edition of the JTAS. It concerned a group of PC's sent to stop a logging machine, which was actually a robotic uber-tank being tested on a pastoral out-of-the-way planet.
I think I may have actually RUN that adventure, too...
Having a four-year-old with loose bowels will do wonders for eliminating large chunks of memory and attention-to-detail.

 

[Spiderfish]

Wasn't that an episode of Thunderbirds Signless?

 

[FlightCommanderSolitude]

Are you referring to the robotic logging machine, or the four year-old with loose bowels?

 

[signless]

Either one works to clear out a forest in record time.

 

[Redleg58]

Originally posted by signless:
Either one works to clear out a forest in record time.

Yeah but one fertilizes as it clears.......The greenies love that......

 

[brudin]

i play in a scenario like this one, but it was with paranoia rules