[SG] Artillery proposal - for a laugh

G'day guys,

Seems this was one that got chewed, so here it is again...

Derek seems to have come up with a fun way of doing artillery in not so
serious games....

We'd been playing a game of SG on the weekend, had to leave it unfinished so
left it set up. To set the scene a Phalon platoon is holding a ridge above an
NSL village. Beth has her back to the gaming table and is concentrating on
revising a paper she's got to tidy up for work. All of a sudden there is a
"DIE Phalon ratbags!!" from Derek as he races in the door past me and then
there is a very loud bang that just about sends me into orbit. When I look
around Derek is a still smoking party popper* in his hand and a bunch of
brightly coloured streamers strewn across one of my squads on the ridge. The
kids soon realised that there were more poppers left in the cupboard and the
"battery" proceeded to bombard the ridge burying the Phalons in inches of
streamers. It looked quite spectacular and it was a good way of pointing out
who got hit and who didn't and as far as the kids were concerned it had the
smoke and bang to be "authentic" ("everything is to scale Mum!").

So if you're ever trying to liven up (or should that be lighten up) a game...
or you're playing one of those games where you play with tiny teddies and
jelly beans and eat the casualties... or games in the spirit of the SG version
of the "game that never happened"... you could do worse than stock up on party
poppers*;)

Cheers