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Offline Plynkes

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The Kaiser's Elephants
« on: January 03, 2009, 05:47:31 PM »
Things have been a little quiet here on the colonial front of late, so I thought I'd better do something about it: Half of a comic-strip battle report from yesterday's game. More (and some details of the game etc.) to follow...















« Last Edit: January 04, 2009, 06:42:17 PM by Plynkes »
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Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2009, 05:58:35 PM »
Plynkesian hilarity! Woot woot!  lol

Can´t wait for the rest of the report!
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2009, 06:02:54 PM »
Hahaha...great stuff.More please! :D
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2009, 06:03:02 PM »
BRAVO!

Reminds me of when comics were worth reading!
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2009, 06:39:31 PM »
Excellant ! can't wait for the next instalment ! ( what rules are you using ?)
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2009, 06:45:07 PM »
gore, trample, parp! great stuff, when will the rest be finished?
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2009, 08:09:19 PM »
hahahaha!!!!!! excellent stuff  lol lol
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2009, 10:25:21 PM »
 lol

"Parp! Gore! Trample!"

You are a madman!

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Offline DFlynSqrl

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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2009, 10:38:57 PM »
Fantastically fun Plynkes!  You are by far my favorite story teller.
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2009, 11:11:05 PM »

















Okay, well the rules we used were Björn and Chris' internationally famous set, Triumph and Tragedy. Well, kind of. We messed around with it a bit to suit our purposes.

We played a co-operative game with Sickers doing his best Roger Moore as Bassy and myself in the Lee Marvin role of Flynn.









Sprinkled across the playing area were encounter markers, randomly placed using the "over the shoulder toss" method. The markers took the form of little piles of poo. Each encounter was drawn from a deck at random, and there were some dummies.








To run the enemies and animals we had a deck of stat cards as in normal T&T, but we blindly shuffled them every turn so we would not know in what order the forces opposing us would act. We concocted a set of programmed rules for the creatures and German policemen, largely inspired by the rules for controlling dinosaurs in the game Saurian Safari. Occasionally when circumstances we hadn't anticipated came up we would intervene with a bit of common sense, present the Germans with a list of tactical options, and let the dice decide which they would perform.

Edit:

Casualty list:
Flynn O' Flynn, gored and trampled by an elephant. Survived, just.
1 elephant, killed by Flynn's boys and Bassy.
6 of Flynn's boys, killed by Plough the Earth.
1 askari of the Polizeitruppe, shot dead by Flynn's boys.
Bassy, captured by the Polizeitruppe.


The legend of Plough the Earth grows...
« Last Edit: January 03, 2009, 11:29:26 PM by Plynkes »
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2009, 12:58:42 AM »
Great stuff Plynkes.! As entertaining as ever.  lol
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2009, 01:07:05 AM »
Very nice Plynkes!
Bravo what an introduction to the new year!


May I humbly ask you to share with us your encounter markers and your interpretation of them.
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2009, 01:24:19 AM »
And my request is to find out the manufacturer of the tent? I need a heap of them for my East African campaign.
Quote from: argsilverson on January 04, 2009, 01:07:05 AM
Very nice Plynkes!
Bravo what an introduction to the new year!

May I humbly ask you to share with us your encounter markers and your interpretation of them.
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2009, 05:24:04 AM »
just fantastic :D
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Re: The Kaiser's Elephants
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2009, 05:58:37 AM »
Bravo Dylan, lovely report 8)
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