Bolos page 1

jchurchill

September 20th, 2004, 07:49 PM

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

Ran Targas

September 20th, 2004, 07:58 PM

^ Very cool!

Malenfant

September 20th, 2004, 08:02 PM

Giant sentient robotic tanks? nuclear weaponry?

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

signless

September 21st, 2004, 02:38 AM

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. :D

jchurchill

September 21st, 2004, 12:51 PM

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

Redleg58

September 21st, 2004, 07:47 PM

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

September 21st, 2004, 07:48 PM

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

September 22nd, 2004, 12:29 AM

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. smile.gif

Spiderfish

September 22nd, 2004, 03:29 AM

Wasn't that an episode of Thunderbirds Signless?

FlightCommanderSolitude

September 22nd, 2004, 12:28 PM

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

signless

September 22nd, 2004, 03:00 PM

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

Redleg58

September 27th, 2004, 06:20 AM

Originally posted by signless:
Either one works to clear out a forest in record time. :D Yeah but one fertilizes as it clears.......The greenies love that...... ;)

brudin

September 27th, 2004, 05:06 PM

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