A game is however within print when of this writing, & several todays gamers keep around fond memories of it. These are noteworthy for a elegance of the basic idethe—that of of these streaming video streaming video player controlling a prominent total of pieces when the more player controls single one—and for the amazingly resonant background story, art (done, in the original edition, by Winchell Chung) and punt fiction provided sustaining its various incarnations.

the game utilizes a hex-grid map depicting barren terrain sustaining sole ridgelines & big, radioactive craters when obstacles. A defender sets higher his forces in a other engorged a share of a map & a Ogre enters the paired side at the beginning of the game. A basic version features a Mark III Ogre, when a advanced scenario gives a assailant a big, further right Mark V Ogre versus an increased total of defenders. the defender is specified a certain total of infantry and 'armor units', but gets to decide a accurate composition of his panoplied forces himself.

the different types of units encourage a combined-arms approach with both nature and severity existence better than a others within different aspects. Heavily tanks use high attack & defense using moderate speed & moo range. Missile tanks have moderate attack & defense by having moderate range and moo speed. G.E.V.s ("ground effect vehicle"—roughly heavily panoplied hovercraft) have suby the high speed (moving twice per turn), moo attack, moo range, & moderate defense. Howitzers have super high attack & range however come well destroyed (it used to be that an assaulter has managed for close plenty), fast, & expensive.

Ogre spawned the sequel, G.E.V., focusing on the G.E.V. hovertank & a more "conventional" armor & foot types. G.E.V. introduced somewhat further naturalistic map terrain system than ''Ogre's "clear land and craters" models, likewise when system for infested combat, spill fire, & handle. It likewise introduced the nuanced points-depending triumph trouble formulas which processed conceivable the kind of harmonious & crooked scenarios. (G.E.V. did non snub or even forget about Ogres; around point of fact, it put forth elaborated system governing Ogres in its additional elaborate game mechanics, & 2 recently types of missile-oriented Ogres were introduced in that game.)

Farther games depending remove of Ogre include Shockwave, an expansion that introduced fresh unit types including sail missiles & a map that can be utilized sustaining the G.E.V. map, & Ogre Miniatures'' an adaptation of the game to miniature wargaming.

Many computer adapations of this bet on stand been written, including a single per commercial game company Origin Systems.