Brian and I agreed to meet at Games To Die for to play a game of Pulp City again. I’d finished painting Nuke and Hellsmith, so I was pretty pumped about it. We decided that since we hadn’t played with Agendas in a while, we’d do that to mix things up. He decided he wanted to play Villains (no Nuke or Hellsmith for me!!), so I played straight-up Heroes. He used Six Feet Under last time, so I decided to use him this time.
His team:
- Hellsmith w/Hell Hammer
- Guerilla w/Tracker & Ammo Feed
- Chimp Chi w/Corrupted Cops
- Agenda: Rob the Bank
My team:
- Six Feet Under w/Pulp City Cops & Pulse Emitter
- Red Riding Hoodoo w/Zombie Wolf
- Ace of Wraiths w/Hellstromm and The Hangman
- Agenda: Eliminate This One – Hellsmith
We used the same deployment on the 2′ x 2′ board as we usually do where the base of the model has to be touching the edge. I arranged the 5 Citizens around the center of the board since the board is smaller than what really works for the Citizen rules.
I won the starting roll and moved 3 Citizens toward my team, meaning to trick Brian into thinking I had the Agenda to save the Citizens. He moved Guerilla up and killed the Citizen that I moved, but was closest to him. I then ran Six Feet Under (6FU) up to a light pole and threw it at him. Unfortunately, I was unable to Power Up. Guerilla then pumped 7 points of damage into 6FU. Hellsmith moved up and tried to smoke a Citizen, but failed since the Citizen rolled a 6 for Defense. Ace of Wraiths moved up a bit and pumped some lead into Hellsmith, putting 7 damage on him. Hellsmith subsequently moved closer to Ace and did Cleave Earth, putting 4 or so damage on him. The Zombie Wolf moved in on Hellsmith and did a Bite, inflicting some damage. In the meantime, 6FU moved up and threw a car at Guerilla and did little damage, though he did get a Power Up this time. Guerilla then returned the favor and did damage to 6FU, nearly killing him. Next round, Guerilla did Dakka Boom to finish him off. Ace of Wraiths pumped more lead into Hellsmith who then killed off the Zombie Wolf, but died when Hellsmith Soul Shotted the demi-god. Guerilla managed to finish off Red Riding Hoodoo, who most of the game had done very little due to my spending most of my AP on Ace and 6FU’s Power Ups and attacks. Chimp Chi and Ace went toe-to-toe for a little while making each of them have only one damage point left. It all came down to whether Ace should Power Up and Soul Shot the little bugger or just Strike him. Ace opted for the Way of the Gun, which Chimp Chi dodged and then finished the pistolier. That was game over.
The VP totals went in Brian’s favor due to his killing off my whole team. However, I was only 1 point behind since I did complete my Agenda.
I really like the Agenda system and I plan on using them in the demos I run at Gen Con. Likely it will be the “Eliminate This One” or the “Rescue/Kill the Citizens” ones.
