When defender Grant Goodhead joined the team bus for this FA Cup trip to Leamington at a motorway junction wearing a penguin fancy dress suit, you just knew Town were in for a flyer.
Why Grant escaped being dragged off by big men in white coats while he loitered at the roundabout waiting to reduce his fellow travellers to helpless laughter must remain one of sport's unsolved mysteries - but how Town won this tie is no secret.
Quite simply, for most of the game they outfought and outplayed opponents from a bracket above them in football's pecking order.
And perhaps most importantly, they began by first out-thinking them.
Town manager Simon Line has little time for scouting ventures to check out the opposition and then formulating some elaborate plan of campaign to counter their strengths.

"We'll just concentrate on what we do best and let the other side worry about that," he says.
But he did reveal afterwards how his men banked on beating Leamington's "sound barrier" with a flying start to achieve this impressive victory at the New Windmill Ground.
"We knew we had to silence their fans to have a better chance of keeping their players quiet," he said.
Line believed that despite being rated 5-1 outsiders, his side had the beating of big hitting Leamington.
But he did admit to being concerned at the threat posed by playing before a large and notoriously loudly partisan home crowd.
Leamington have an average gate of over 700 this season and the vast majority of them form a group of the most vocal fans you could wish to meet in non-League football. Line explained: "We feared they might get at some of our lads who are not used to playing before large crowds.
"An early goal was vital to prevent their chanting fans unsettling our side so we planned on all out attack from the start.
"It worked fantastically well. We were a goal up in three minutes and had two by the quarter-hour mark.
"The home supporters simply couldn't get at us after that - I must we got a very nice round of applause from them in the end - and neither could their players."
Nicky Porter firmly hit home Town's opener, credit for which should be shared with striker Tom Rogers, who put in some great work on the left to create the opening.

Porter turned provider for the second as Town again ripped Leamington's defence apart.
It started when Jason Francis broke up a dangerous looking Leamington attack. Porter took the ball on the burst, drew in the home defence with a powerful run through the middle and with Town players streaming forward in support, picked out Martyn Davies with a well weighted pass the striker stroked past the cruely exposed home keeper, Chris Kiely.
Job done as far as taming the formidable array of home fans was concerned.
Town then got down to keeping a grip on the tie that was only really threatened on the half hour mark by Mark Bellingham's disputed penalty.
But skipper-keeper Andy Pryce dived to push his spot kick past the post and Town quickly countered with another well-constructed attack that ended with a shot from Rogers hitting the post and the ball rebounding across goal to where an acrobatic Jay Lawrence shaved the woodwork too.
The next hour or so was thoroughly entertaining; a crackling cup clash with both sides earning bursts of applause from a crowd by now giving credit where it was due.
Both sides might have scored - Leamington hit a post and Rogers somehow missed a sitter - but Town's again-excellent defence generally had the upper hand.