Pulp City – Level 5 game, Heroes vs. Villains – Now with Agendas!

Totengraber — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:31:48 +0000

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.

Pulp City – Level 5 game Heroes vs. A.R.C.

Totengraber — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:41:12 +0000

Brian and I played a game of Pulp City last night. I brought in my board I’m building for Gen Con and some buildings. I still need to paint those as well. We decided to play alevel 5 game, which is what we usually play anyway. We also decided not to use any Agendas as we hadn’t played in a few weeks and sometimes you just want your beatstick to inflict some pain without any real goal.

I made sure to bring all my stuff with me this time so Brian could play Six Feet Under as he requested. I went with the ARC guys, which were all new to me.

Brian’s Team:

Six Feet Under (Pulse Emitter & Pulp City Cops)
Red Riding Hoodoo (Zombie Wolf)
Ace of Wraiths (Hellstromm & Hangman)

My Team:

Virus (The Glove)
Apebot
Guerrilla (Tracker & Ammo Feed)

The board I built is only 2′ x 2′, so we deployed with the bases of our models touching the edge. Of course, with Red Riding Hoodoo’s Mind stat being so high, Brian won most of the Starting Rolls.

I just moved Apebot up behind a car in preperation for throwing it and Virus moved up to the left of the car. Guerrilla moved along the right edge of the board advancing toward Ace. Brian had Ace move up as well as 6FU and everything else. I realized that I really would have liked to have Virus closer to Apebot since his Fix action to increase Apebot’s AP is only a RNG 1. Apebot decided to just throw the car anyway. Unfortunately, due to distance, he couldn’t hit 6FU with it, so he targeted the squishy Red Riding Hoodoo. Ace moved closer to Guerrilla and did Soul Shot doing some damage. Guerrilla returned the favor with some repeated Dakka Boom, which finally killed Ace later in the game. 6FU moved in on Apebot and dropped the Pulse Emitter, doing damage to Apebot and keeping him from doing anything. 6FU then proceeded to pummel Apebot and Apebot couldn’t retaliate due to an AP of 1 and 6FU’s Reach 1. Virus healed Apebot and then later got attacked and killed by 6FU. Apebot was then taken out by 6FU. After having killed Ace, Guerrilla moved in on 6FU and finished him off with his favorite action, Dakka Boom. It all came down to Red Riding Hoodoo, the Zombie Wolf, a couple of Cops and Guerrilla. The Zombie Wolf and Red Riding Hoodoo got Guerrilla down to one damage left, and in a last-ditch effort, he dropped a car on Hoodoo’s head, finishing the game.

Man, the more I play this game, the more I love it. Next time around, though, we’re using Agendas and Citizens. I think Brian’s Cops would have been a bigger influence had we done that last night.

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Pulp City – Level 5 game, Heroes vs. Villains – Now with Agendas!

Pulp City – Level 5 game Heroes vs. A.R.C.