The Balloonatics!

[Mo]

In all seriousness, I damned near snorted Honey Bunches of Oats through my nostril this morning when Sickly hit the balloon a second time.

It was a very painful lesson about reading your battle reports over breakfast.

Marc

[Plynkes]

The thing that really made it bad (or funny) was that he drew an explosion card both times he hit the damn thing. There's only one of those in that particular damage deck of seventeen cards. Any other day it might have been a good tactic, as you have a reasonable chance of doing more damage to the balloon than to yourself.

And of course we did shuffle them in between games. Some days the gaming gods just hate you.


To be fair on the lad, it is quite an art figuring out just where a particular set of orders will put you. That is the real trick to becoming good at it, the thinking ahead and being able to visualize what each order will do in advance (and you have to put down three movement cards at a time).

[coggon]

Excellent and hilarious report as usual.  Please add me to the Monday morning "casualty list" :: as I nearly lost the swig of Diet Coke that I had just taken.  And its also a good thing that no one was in the office to hear the laughter emanating from my office.

(Note to self-only read Plynikes reports at home, and do not consume anything prior to reading)

[Mo]

It certainly made me want to give the game a try. We play a bit of 'Check Your Six' here, which is a lot of fun. But I've always preferred the bi-planes.

Marc

[Strand]

Another excellent report.  :love: Plynkes truely has mastered the art of storytelling. I wouldn't even have bothered with writing a sentence for the first two games.

[fastolfrus]

Top shelf report.

Does that mean the same at both sides of the Atlantic ?

[Aesthete]

Top shelf report.

Does that mean the same at both sides of the Atlantic ?

I surmise that "top shelf" roughly equals "outstanding quality".

[JollyBob]

Top shelf report.

Does that mean the same at both sides of the Atlantic ?

I surmise that "top shelf" roughly equals "outstanding quality".

Also means (in England, anyway) the top shelf of the Newsagents where the smut and filth is kept out of reach of children.

I'm sure the first version is what was intended.

[Hammers]

Top shelf report.

Does that mean the same at both sides of the Atlantic ?

I surmise that "top shelf" roughly equals "outstanding quality".

Also means (in England, anyway) the top shelf of the Newsagents where the smut and filth is kept out of reach of children.

I'm sure the first version is what was intended.

 :: (I will chalk this down as the most entertaining LAF week in a year).

[Plynkes]

Yes, Top Shelf implies to a British ear that there was perhaps some kind of Pilots' Wives feature in my report. Sorry to disappoint you but there is not.

The phrase I would use would be Top Drawer. No ambiguity with that one. At least not where I live. No doubt we will soon discover if that means something incredibly funny in Valparaiso, Vienna or Valletta.

[Aaron]

Sorry for the confusion. Since you only had one balloon and it was not the type that normally excites I suppose I should indeed have said top drawer. My only defense is that Dolt is my first language.