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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Triumph & Tragedy => Topic started by: Plynkes on March 16, 2008, 11:20:39 PM

Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Plynkes on March 16, 2008, 11:20:39 PM: Our first try at T&T. Sorry for the delay, chaps, I've had the game almost since it came out. Just like the bureaucracy of Austria-Hungary, things move slowly here:

http://misterplynkes.blogspot.com/2008/03/german-central-africa-1890.html

Teaser pics:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Beckmanntruppe/TitleLAFversion.jpg)
The wreck of the Kaiserin Helena.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Beckmanntruppe/22Germanstakethevillage.jpg)
German Advance.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Beckmanntruppe/23Defensiveposition.jpg)
Belgian Defence.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Beckmanntruppe/VanDriscolessavesthedayLAFversion.jpg)
Van Driscoles vs. the Ruga Ruga.

The heroes of the hour:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Beckmanntruppe/BelgianHeroesII.jpg)

Short answer: Love T&T. For more details see the old bloggeroony.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Helen on March 16, 2008, 11:35:51 PM: Lovely story Poly 8)

Really taken by this set of rules that have been used by many a nice folk here on this forum.

God Bless

Helen
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Plynkes on March 16, 2008, 11:42:35 PM: By the way, the Kaiserin Helena was named in honour of your good self, Helen.

Not that I'm implying that you're a washed-up old boat or anything :) , just that it's a little tradition of mine to sometimes name people and things in my reports after fellow Lead Adventurers and other online virtual chums.

Glad you liked it.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Helen on March 17, 2008, 12:11:01 AM: I thought so :D

Thanks Poly 8)
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: PeteMurray on March 17, 2008, 12:36:41 AM: Yay! Another Plynkes report!

Okay, I read the whole report. Another humdinger of a report, too! I particularly like the scatter of the mortar working out in your favor. Mortars never go in my favor, even though theoretically it should happen at some point.

We really have to test T&T out. If Illumisar hadn't booked the next game night I'm afraid I'd have to insist on running these.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Driscoles on March 17, 2008, 06:49:40 AM: "... A laminating machine! I love the smell of lamination in the morning. Smells like victory..."

Thank you for a great report Sir. It was fun to read. And thank you as well for the review.

Does Sickly need new dice ?

Cheers
Björn
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on March 17, 2008, 07:35:19 AM: Finally! Really enjoyed the reading, Dylan, I just have to hire you for writing of my reports :mrgreen:
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Hammers on March 17, 2008, 08:02:59 AM: A new Plynkes' battle reports should be an item in New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Malamute on March 17, 2008, 08:33:12 AM: Great fun, excellent looking game. :)
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Vanvlak on March 17, 2008, 09:02:50 AM: Stunning! Simply stunning. Bet those 1st prize rogues made off with the cash themselves...
And Mr. Plynkes, I viewed the travelogue and regret to report I split my sides. Especially over that famous painting,
The argument over the restaurant bill.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh, and I DID listen to the music in its entirety too.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Plynkes on March 17, 2008, 11:06:39 AM: Thanks, fellas.

Björn, he used the same dice as me. The only difference was that I, like an old lady playing Monopoly, was using an aged wooden dice shaker. He prefers to roll the dice out of his hands like some kind of high roller at the craps tables in Vegas.

So I think the Juju must be in the shaker. :)
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: PeteMurray on March 17, 2008, 11:38:59 AM: Quote from: "hammershield"
A new Plynkes' battle reports should be an item in New York Times Sunday Book Review.

I have forwarded this suggestion on to the Times Editorial Office.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: argsilverson on March 17, 2008, 12:25:11 PM: Very Nice
Congratulations.
Very much inspring.
I am waiting for my T&T copy in order to test it myself.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: twrchtrwyth on March 17, 2008, 06:30:17 PM: Great stuff. 8)

Did Lady Emma Hamilton really say that? :wink:
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Phil Robinson on March 17, 2008, 09:40:35 PM: Spiffing report and photographs as always old chap. Like the white flag to denote the pinned chappies, I shall unashamedly steal that idea.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Operator5 on March 17, 2008, 09:52:23 PM: I liked it so much I read it a second time. Most books I like don't get a second reading. You sir, shall be right up there with Tolkien as far as the re-reading part goes.

And is that Sickley's hair or has he grown a ZZ Top beard. In the one photos, it seems to be right down the center of his chest but you can't see his head. :D
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Hammers on March 18, 2008, 07:56:11 AM: Surely that is the progress of young Sicklee's famous 'bum fuss'?
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Plynkes on March 18, 2008, 11:03:20 AM: He wants me to say it's his beard but I will not lie for him. It is his fairy tale princess hair, which it seems nothing can stop. By contrast his pathetic chin and lip hair seems like the girly, weedy arms of a T-Rex when compared with its jaws.

He aspires to a manly beard, but won't listen to me when I say the quickest way to get one is to start shaving. He is still clinging tenaciously to the hope that one of these mornings when he wakes up his teenage bumfluff will have magically transformed into the beard of an Old Testament patriarch.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: JollyBob on March 18, 2008, 11:24:45 AM: Poor Sickly.

The boy has my sympathy. At 33 I still can't grow a beard, unless I opt for the now infamous and universally ridiculed "gangsta goatee", and even that is wispy and frankly not worth the effort.

I'm thinking of getting mutton-grafts when I'm older. :mrgreen:
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Hammers on March 18, 2008, 12:11:04 PM: Quote from: "Plynkes"
...bumfluff ...

That's the word I was looking for.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: PeteMurray on March 18, 2008, 12:14:36 PM: If his long and elven hair is that way naturally, he's doomed in the beard department. Maybe if he lets it go he could look like a low-budget Chinese sage, but there's no way his genes will let him pull off the beard. And if you can't get the beard to work, you may as well get the hair to go, or people will think his name is short for Regina.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on March 18, 2008, 12:25:04 PM: Quote from: "Vanvlak"

Oh, and I DID listen to the music in its entirety too.

I read this and thought "What music?"

Then I remembered I had muted my laptop's sound, because of my webmail's irritating habit of telling me I have e-mail every 5 minutes. :oops: I'll have to read the report again, now :lol:

Absolutely splendid! For some reason I've never visited your blog before, but it's now safely bookmarked 8)
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Plynkes on March 18, 2008, 12:26:54 PM: There's no music on the report. That reference is to one of the travelogues (the Loire Valley one). And it doesn't play automatically (I really hate websites that do that to you), you have to click on it.

Edit: Hammers, I prefer 'Bum fuss.' I am going to use that phrase from now on.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: dodge on March 18, 2008, 01:32:28 PM: What a great game.

Yet another exciting adventure which used these rules.

Great, Fantastic, Wonderful ....

Oh you catch my drift :love:

Dodge
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: DFlynSqrl on March 18, 2008, 01:40:49 PM: That was a fun read! I look forward to checking out the rest of your site.

(edit)

...and I did. Fantastic reports! Good thing I had already finished up my project at work because I would have had a hard time explaining to my boss why I didn't make the deadline because I was reading about the Wittelsbach Swimming club.
Title: The Lost Payroll of the Beckmanntruppe
Post by: Grimm on March 20, 2008, 09:29:50 PM: Very cool report !!

I near to die laughing as I see where treasure can be .
(yes a treasure must marked by an X )

very cool
cheers Grimm