This week I managed to get to my mate Leon’s (A.K.A PulpCitizen) to play a game of Pulp City, the Superhero Skirmish game. We climbed
up into his newly fitted games room in his loft and had a cracking game.
We were
play-testing some proposed new rules for the game, and I have to say they made
the game even more dynamic and fast paced, while freeing up the possible
actions the Supremes could perform, so that the game play had a distinct
four-colour-comic-book feel. Obviously I can’t go into the rules, as it’s all
tiptop secret at this stage, but I love the direction this game is going in.
I played ARC, a
bunch of super intelligent mutant primates, while Leon played a fairly random
bunch of Superheroes. I had a cunning plan to lure Leon’s heroes into an ambush
is a predetermined killing zone. The plan basically worked, but some poor judgment
and even poorer dice rolling cost me the game. Given the low ceilings in the
Pulp Citizen Man-Cave, and the fact that Leon is almost a foot shorter than me,
I also think that the gaming environment was carefully engineered to give him a
home-ground advantage.
Or at least
that is my excuse.
All these figures are made for the Pulp City game, and all figures and scenery belong to Leon- so I can't claim any credit.
Iron Train and some vigilantes prepare for battle
Skyline and Androida lurk in an alleyway- all part of the
heroes 'cunning plan'
Guerilla acts as bait for the ambush- shooting, then falling back while the heroes advance
Apebot waiting patiently to ambush any heroes foolish enough to enter the ARC kill-zone
Too late for Iron Train!
The hero realises that the cunning and sneaky elements of ARC have out flanked him- the metal-clad Supreme prepares to go down fighting!
good stuff, I may have to invest in this at some point...I keep hearing rumor of an open point system to build your own heroes...that would win me over then....
ReplyDeleteI keep hoping to win a contest one of the prizes is a nice set of Pulp Figures, that would encourage me to buy the book then...
Nice looking mini's and table.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking game and I just love those minis! The cigar smoking Gorilla with the chain gun is brilliant!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for posting mate! :)
ReplyDeleteI like to think the Upper Pulp Citizen Cave (as opposed the Lower Pulp Citizen Cave used for painting) is ergonomically designed to my needs!
To Styx: The approach we are looking at is a menu-build around themes of powers/Actions etc. But that will be a while off, however the new edition is the first stepping-stone towards that. :)