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.

Malifaux – This game has a lot of buzz right now. They only had a closed alpha demo thing last year, but the rumor is they’ll have the book and new starter boxes. I picked up the Seamus box last year along with Hamlin the Rat Catcher. This time I think I’ll pick up the Perdita or Resurrectionists box depending on what I think of the rules when I read them.

Pulp City – I will likely be behind on a few things by the time the convention rolls around, so I’ll get caught up then.

Arcane Legions – I was really kinda excited about this game until I saw the Roman booster box art, which depicted a Spartan in power armor and wielding a gun of some sort. The Han Army booster art, however, has me somewhat interested again. I’ll probably get a demo of this just to be sure one way or the other.

Warlands – The idea of playing a game with Hot Wheels has me intrigued. If the rules look good, I may buy the book.

Uncharted Seas – I’ve played a quick game once with two other people and I did think it was cool, but like many other games, there isn’t anyone playing it regularly.

CthulhuTech – Damnation View or Mortal Remains – Whichever is out, I will likely buy it. I really like the setting of this RPG and would love to play it someday.

All in all, I think I’ll just be looking at stuff moreso than buying.

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.

I also worked more on Nuke and Hellsmith for Pulp City. I really need to get these done soon. Nukes toxic look was not really working for my (awesome! gorgeous!) wife/critic. The darker primary green just looked bad to her. This morning, I added some Trollblood Base to the flourescent green I’m using and went over the green parts. I think it looks pretty smooth and less “chalky”. I hope it looks better to her, too.

This morning, I also washed over the Ent with Thornwood green as I’d previously basecoated him in Trollblood Highlight. It looks more like a tree now. I may do some highlighting and such on him and then I need to paint the leaves, moss, fungus and the base (with a dead Uruk-Hai).

Primered all my assembled War of the Ring minis. (24 High Elf Warriors, 24 High Elf Archers, 24 High Elf Spearmen, 24 Wood Elves, Glorfindel, Ent and a number of characters)

Made bases for my Flames of War Churchill Crocodiles since when I pinned the trailers on, the joint seemed finda flimsy.

Painted two Flames of War British M10C SP (17 pdr) tanks. Man, FoW stuff paints up super-quick!

Painted my two HQ stands for my Flames of War British army. They only need dullcoated now.

Applied a basecoat of Trollblood Highlight on my Ent. My sexy/awesome and honest critic wife commented that she wasn’t sure about the base color, but I think some washes will make it look more like a tree.

Worked some more on Nuke and Hellsmith. The toxic glow effect still needs work according to the amazing critic-wife, “It looks like a bunch of green worms on top of yellow goop”.

All in all, a lot of progress made.

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.

[singlepic id=150 w=320 h=240 float=] [singlepic id=151 w=320 h=240 float=] ]]> http://www.dertotengraber.com/2009/06/19/pulp-city-level-5-game-heroes-vs-arc/feed/ 0 http://www.dertotengraber.com/2009/06/16/lots-of-progress-on-stuff-i-dont-realy-need-progress-on/ http://www.dertotengraber.com/2009/06/16/lots-of-progress-on-stuff-i-dont-realy-need-progress-on/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:14:16 +0000 Totengraber http://www.dertotengraber.com/?p=766 So, I had a lot of time this weekend and yesterday to get some stuff assembled or painted. Well, I decided to work on Warhammer 40K stauff instead of the Pulp City stuff I should have been working on. I got a 10-man Assault Squad, a 10-man Tactical Squad, a few Heavy/Special weapon models, Shrike, a Rhino and a Drop Pod assembled and primed. Unfortunately, on some of the marines I have the fuzzy primer thing going on. I will try getting a brush or something to try and clean it up, but it is very upsetting to put that much work into assembling figures to have that happen. I wonder if the trick for cloudy clear coat will work for primer (re-coating usually fixes it for me).

I also did some assebly work on a couple of M10 17pdr for Flames of War as well, but that was like a 30-minute venture.

I did however, get some work done on the first 2′ x 2′ board for Pulp City demos at Gen Con done. I used some Rustoleum textured darkgrey/black paint for the streets on the board. It came out pretty well perfect in color and texture. I have some work left to do on the board, but I’m feeling pretty good about what’s done with it so far (gluing down cork for sidewalks and a coat of grey primer).

This week I plan on getting Hellsmith, Nuke and Zombie Wolf done so I can count the Pulp City figures as complete.

Speaking of Flames of War, it is one of the biggest games played at Games to Die For. A while back, Joel talked me into giving it another try (after the debacle when a bunch of our group switched over a couple of years ago). People are playing Late war a lot now, and I decided to go with the British for two reasons: Universal Carriers and Churchill Crocodiles. Both of thos emodels really caught my eye. I bought and painted a couple of units (MG Platoon, Rifle Platoon and some Universal Carriers), since then, Joel has been painting my models for me as the painting of the same colors over and over was getting to me. I have almost 1500 points now after my purchase of some M10s last night. I look forward to playing this game again once I have all my stuff painted. The guys who play at the store seem like pretty cool guys and they don’t seem to be like what I imagined historical gamers to be.

Looks like some cool stuff is on the horizon. Now I just need to et caught up on the current releases (Rook, Francis Gator, Father Oak, Acorn, Trail and Blood Rose).