OGREs in Dirtside 2

Another resurrected article from the original PanPac Alliance website, attempting to incorporate cybertank elements into another great wargaming systme: Ground Zero Game's Dirtside 2 (which I played a lot of over the years). GZG Jon, a wonderful guy who I met in person at a show in 2023, now has these rules available for free at his website here: https://shop.groundzerogames.co.uk/rules.html

OGREs in Dirtside 2

Dirtside 2 (DS2) is Ground Zero Game's outstanding 1/300 scale miniatures rules. They are more complex and ultra realistic than OGRE and as such as very popular. DS2 included rules for Massive vehicles, which just begs for some rules to utilise your OGRE minis in a DS2 stouch. The following rules came from David at the GZG Miniatures Group who has kindly given permission to put them up here….

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We tested a game at NOVAGCON 98 using two Ogres that attacked from the Ocean and had to cross a Island destroying the command base and other installations. One Ogre was destroyed by a unit of light GEV using HKP/3 while the other destroyed one unit and damaged two other units. The surviver was final destoyed with none of the objectives being touched. The "BOOM" chit is too tuff for them so we modified the rule. We gave Ogres a saving throw when a boom chit is pulled. You record the Ogre tracks and modules and the first boom chit is pulled, say on the front right track, you throw a D6:

SAVING THROW FOR OGRES

Number of "BOOM" chits	SAVING ROLL on D6	DESTROYED
1st	1 - 5	6
2nd	1 - 4	5 - 6
3rd	1 - 3	4 -6
4th	1 - 2	3 - 6
5th	1	2 - 6
6th	"BOOM!"	-

This idea should give a Ogre a longer life and much more time to destroy.

UNIT MORALE: When a unit is facing a 10,000 ton vehicle there is a chance that just the sight of one of these "beasts" will make troops "run for the hills!" so we came up with these modifiers for morale. At the end of the turn roll the units confidence for the following:

OGRE EFFECTS ON MORALE

Unit Type	Range	Roll modifier
GREEN	45" - 60"	+0 Threat
GREEN	15" - 45"	+1 Threat
GREEN	0" - 15"	+2 Threat
VETERN	45" - 60"	No Threat
VETERN	15" - 45"	+0 Threat
VETERN	0" - 15"	+1 Threat
ELITE	45" - 60"	No Threat
ELITE	15" - 45"	No Threat
ELITE	0" - 15"	+0 Threat

Hope these are useful to those of you who play DS2 as well as OGRE. 

David would appreciate feedback from anybody giving them a go.