Of course, I went to Gen Con a couple of weeks ago. The convention was awesome as always. Fred and I hung out a lot together playing HeroClix. I played in a pre-release event for the next set, Web of Spider-Man, which was cool since Spider-Man has been my favorite comic since I was a kid. I saw a lot of people I hadn’t seen in a while at the convention, though regrettably, I didn’t spend much time with them. I ran several Pulp City demo events like I did in 2009. This year I added on a tournament and a scenario event where Ulthars are invading the city. This was Maciej’s idea. We only had 6 people for the tournament, which was 4 less than the tickets we sold, but it still went well. I think everyone had fun.

For the most part, since Gen Con the main focus of my time has been on assembling the Pulp City miniatures Maciej has been so kind as to provide me with for my work at Gen Con. I have a total of 26 to assemble, with 8 left to go.

Several of us in the area bought into MERCS, so I have assembled the five models I bought at the convention. Joel has been reading up on the rules and I hope to try this game out soon.

I’ve been on a big superhero-gaming kick lately. Fred and I have discussed playing a Savage Worlds game using the Super Powers Companion. I bought a setting book from 1st edition Mutants and Masterminds to use as the backdrop. Should I fin a time and place to run this, I think it’ll be a blast!

I’ve also been working on promoting Pulp City more in the area. I did a demo game with Bryan and his girls last Sunday and come September 12th, I’ll be running another demo event. The latter will be run much like the Ulthar event at Gen Con, though not all the minis will be painted, unfortunately. I still think it’ll be fun.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to. I hope to get some pictures posted and maybe a battle report or two for stuff I’ve been playing.

Here’s what I used:

• Thor’s Mighty Chariot
• The Mighty Thor
• Thor
• Heimdall
• Balder
• Hogun
• Fandral
• Sif
• Spider-Man (Thor version)
• Valkyrie (on foot)
• Enchantress
• Beta Ray Bill

My first game was against a guy named Rich. He was also playing an Asgardian team. I don’t know if it was my slow playing, from lack of understanding of the rules or what, but he killed Beta Ray Bill while I killed an Asgardian Warrior. He won that one.

The second game was against Charles, who apparently didn’t have enough models for 2,000 points and only played 873 points. His first opponent played his full 2,000 points against him and won pretty easily. I decided to make it more fair and reduce my list down to his point level. I ran Thor’s Mighty Chariot, Balder, Enchantress and Fandral. He had Thor’s Mighty chariot, Ragnarok Surtur and Fenris Wolf. I ended up winning that one by killing everyone on his team. It didn’t help that in two consecutive turns the Surtur rolled a critical failure.

The third game was against Mark(?), who was running the tournament. He ran The Specter and Hela. It was definitely an uphill battle for me. I did end up losing, but I felt pretty good about damaging the Specter a couple of times and killing Hela outright with Heimdall and Balder.

In the end, I walked out with a new map and a Runaways team ability card. Everyone there was really cool and playing the game was a ton of fun. Yeah, it’s a ‘clix’ game, which a lot of serious mini gamers look down on, but it is still a decent fun game. I look forward to playing in future tournaments at lower point levels, where I can use all my own minis.