A bit of levity

[PeeDeeAitch]

So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"

It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...

[Shellshock]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...

Never ask those SS guys for a "stamp". They invented going postal. [:D]

[PeeDeeAitch]

The Ukrainian Postal Shock armies in their brown trucks were also feared, I understand.

[sillyflower]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch

So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"

It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...

Bad luck mate. She now knows you are a GAMER. You should have kept her thinking you were working on an economic forecasting model or something.

To save your relationship you must get out immediately and buy her some nice shoes/chocolates or similar. Delay may be fatal.

[fsp]

Hilarious, I like this info [:D]

[Hagleboz]

My wife calls it Hexagon Land.  She even has a little song she sings about me and Hexagon Land whenever she sees me playing. [:)]

[Gloo]

Some freshness in a ruthless world [:D]

[PeeDeeAitch]

ORIGINAL: sillyflower
Bad luck mate. She now knows you are a GAMER. You should have kept her thinking you were working on an economic forecasting model or something.

To save your relationship you must get out immediately and buy her some nice shoes/chocolates or similar. Delay may be fatal.

She knew already, I was doomed from the start. She just couldn't figure out why I kept taking books from my shelf about some invasion of the USSR and then playing the Envelope Game.

[sillyflower]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch

She knew already, I was doomed from the start. She just couldn't figure out why I kept taking books from my shelf about some invasion of the USSR and then playing the Envelope Game.

These things happen. It was 5000 model soldiers that gave me away.

Wife got a bit upset a few weeks ago and complained 'you've been playing on that wretched machine for 6 hours now'.

I knew 'is that all?' was not going to be the right answer and managed to bite back that answer.

Unfortunately, 'no I haven't. It's only been 5 hours and 40 minutes' wasn't much better apparently

[morganbj]

After 40 years of marraige, my wife doesn't care that I play games anymore. She used to when I had DNO scattered all over the guest bedroom floor, however. Now, she knows where I am, what I'm doing, and ignores the occasional "stupid AI!" rantings from my room.

[Tarhunnas]

My onetime girfriend (in boardgame days) called the infantry envelopes and the armor units bathtubs. That was because they look like bathtubs seen from above in house plans.

[PeeDeeAitch]

Oh no, she has yet to see the bathtubs break through the envelopes and encircle masses of postage paid deliveries...

[PeeDeeAitch]

ORIGINAL: Shellshock
Never ask those SS guys for a "stamp". They invented going postal. [:D]

New avatar choice for the time being, I hope I am not intruding on your art, Shellshock [:)]

[Shellshock]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch
New avatar choice for the time being, I hope I am not intruding on your art, Shellshock [:)]

It's cool with me. [8D]

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

"--but blizzards will, at least until a new patch comes out." [;)]

[carnifex]

I'm squinting at the Commander's Report, trying to get a handle on all my Support Units.

My wife, passing by, glances at the screen:

"VisiCalc in the Pacific?"

"Nope, VisiCalc in the Ukraine."

"The Ukraine is weak!"

She walks away.

[Tarhunnas]

LOL! [:D]

[Zorch]

It's not "The Ukraine"; that was a Soviet thing. Just "Ukraine". Seinfeld got it wrong.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch

So I hav been playing this game (off and on now that the new semester is here) since December. My girlfriend has looked a few times and basically ignored what I was saying about it. But finally the lightbulb came on when I was rereading Clark and she said "Oh, I was wondering what all those envelopes were"

It was my turn to be perplexed until I saw the NATO infantry symbol in a new light...envelopes. I am afraid from now on, WitE will always be "The Envelope Game" in my house...

I started an AAR on one of the most popular forums in our local language in my country. It is aimed mostly at "general gaming" population most of whom have no idea about grognard wargames, but might be interested based on this AAR...

"Envelopes" is the term some people used there to refer to units on my screenshots, as well [;)] I pointed them to the list of NATO symbols as one of the first grog lessons in the AAR....

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch

The Ukrainian Postal Shock armies in their brown trucks were also feared, I understand.

What can Brown do for you?

[Knavery]

This is some funny stuff. When my girlfriend walks by she says, "All your games look like honey comb."