Got off work early today and though it'd be great to spend some time with my 4 year old while her sister was at school. I was imagining a couple of hours of lego - which is another great hobby/passtime (really rubbish weather here today) - but she went to the games cupboard and asked to play the "aeroplane game."
I was a bit reluctant but it came out of the cupboard. Now before I go any further we play very simple rules: she can select her 3 manoeuvers as she goes but I have to pre-plan as per the rules, no gun jams, no special damage, all damage face up so she can do some counting and adding; it's all really simple and fun. She was Ellwood's Camel (Love hearts) and I was the Red Baron.
The game began with me trying to second guess the four year old girl brain as her pilot flew all over the place with no pattern or attempt to get closer to my plane. Eventually... we got withing range of one another and the shooting began, she hit me for about 3 damage and she managed to draw a 0 and a couple of 1 damage cards. Then the inevitable happened as through the twists and turns I managed to get behind her plane; happy days you may think, but some shocking shooting she pulled out a whole heap of 0's one after the other. Then she out-foxed me with a couple of random/lucky/unexpected/brilliant manoeuvers* shot me up with a couple of 4's on a pass as I sped past her, then as I sideslid she again outfoxed me with a nice banking move and strafed me on another pass for 6 and the ahem bit occured as the Red Barron plummeted to the ground - oh the ignominy!
It was great fun to be fair, but next time I'm going to insist on the proper rules
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