The Balloonatics!

[Plynkes]

Or

"What I did today instead of finishing off my latest club member."

Being a blow-by-blow account of some balloon-busting escapades for the purposes of demonstrating a game of Wings of War as played by a brace of incompetent nincompoops, to any what ain't seen it:

http://misterplynkes.blogspot.com/




Sorry, lads and lasses. I'll try and get right back onto it tomorrow...

[Operator5]

The Sickleoni family must have moved to Japan after the end of hostilities. I'm sure their pilot offspring would have been great heroes there.

Great report!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

still laughing  ::

thanks, Dylan, you're the boss of DGRW*  









*(Department of Gaming Report Writers)

[muppetman]

I love that game!! so much fun to play

[fastolfrus]

Corking report there.

That's a rather natty looking playing surface, what's the secret ?

[Helen]

Top Show Poly

Helen

[Wirelizard]

That playing surface looks like one of Hotz Mats European Field mats - they do nice mats in a bunch of styles.

(Eric Hotz is also a great guy who lives in the next city over, so to speak, so I figured he needed the shout-out!)

[DFlynSqrl]

Great report as always Plynkes.

I actually played Wings of War with my Dad on Sat.  It would appear y'all are much better pilots.  We spent a lot of time flying in bizarre patterns hoping someone might actually get a plane in their sites to fire a shot!

[Vanvlak]

Plynkes, that had me rolling on the carpet ::  ::  ::
Say, you need a model of a balloon there....  

[Plynkes]

DFlynSqrl, I'm not sure we can call ourselves better pilots when two out of three games ended prematurely due to flying into the balloon!    And you'll notice my Albatros was only hit once by my opponent. Yes, I scored a lot of hits on the balloon and did some pretty ineffective strafing, but things that don't move about are quite easy to hit, providing you can avoid flying straight into them.

Yes, the terrain cloth is from Hotz Mats.

Maybe we do need a model balloon, but the cards are quite pretty. One thing I like about this game is the ready-to-play-straight-from-the-boxness of it. I'm not sure I want to get sucked into a grand project of terrain and model making, repainting the planes and all that stuff like some folks do. That would be a good way of making sure the game never gets played again, I fear.

[Driscoles]

What a beautiful start into boring monday. Thank you Frank "Plynkes" Luke Balloonbuster  for a great read !

Cheers
Rittmeister von Klugermann

[PeteMurray]

That was pretty droll, even by the droll standards of your reports.

No doubt Sickly's hair was in his eyes. If he would cut it, his depth perception and inherent abilities to perceive visual flow* and compute Tau* would be less adversely effected.

*: Don't major in (visual perception) Psychology

[Plynkes]

I think he would retort that the length of his hair is irrelevant here. The true reason why he is unable to compute Tau is that he does not own that particular codex.

I'm sure he will happily compute Space Marines, Tyranids or Necrons for you, though.

[PeteMurray]

I think he would retort that the length of his hair is irrelevant here. The true reason why he is unable to compute Tau is that he does not own that particular codex.

I'm sure he will happily compute Space Marines, Tyranids or Necrons for you, though.

Two of those armies have the highest point-cost:figure ratios in the game. Owning these books is consonant with building a minimal-cost but tournament-legal army. My behavioral models indicate that this means he is nearing a point of critical GW fatigue. When this fatigue builds up to critical levels, he will probably undergo some sort of hobby collapse. You will be able to train him fully as your historicals apprentice. Sith style.

"Now go, Darth Sickly, and post your first historicals purchase to Lead Adventure."

"Yes, my master."

[Aaron]

Top shelf report. There's nothing better for encouraging the younger set to try historical gaming than a sound thrashing! :wink:

I thoroughly enjoyed the travelogue entries also. When I got to the pic of the "nazi hot dog stand" I completely lost it for about three minutes.