Pulp City

Unlike most people on last Saturday evening, I was not out cruising the town, or at a night club, what I was doing was playing Pulp City for the first time. After painting for most of the day, I had 2 miniatures painted and was itching to try this game out so I sent a text to my buddy Mike, who was all for a game. The game is played by Levels so we decided to play a level 5 game. There is a chart in the rule book that shows you the level break down for a game of this size, we need two level two characters and one level one.

Mike won the choice of setting up first or second, as this has no real effect on the first turn, He chose to set up first, He deployed solar and Hoodoo on my right side behind the building and Ace of Wrath on my left also behind a building. I chose to set up Twilight on the Left, Guerilla down the middle and Nuke on the right side.

This scene took place on a lonely military base, the villains (played by myself) were attempting to get away with some highly regarded military documents. Nuke lvl 2, Twillight lvl 1 and Guerilla lvl 2 (pictures below) attempted to make it out of the military complex and take down as many civilian’s as possible, Solar lvl 2, Ace of Wrath lvl 2 & Red Riding Hoodoo lvl 1 and her wolf (played by Mike) showed up to foil their plans.

The game is played primarily with 1d6, a measuring tape and The game is played primarily with 1d6, a measuring tape and the cards. The starting roll is a dice roll between both sides using the highest mental stat, Red Riding Hoodoo has a mental stat of 5 and Solar is a Leader giving the roll a +1. Making it nearly impossible for me to win the roll, I had all 3 models with 3. Hoodoo won the starting roll with a 2 vs my 5, as her total was 8 as was my total score, the tie breaker was the origins we were both Mystery so it came down to higher stat giving Hoodoo the win. The civilians were with in command range of the Hero’s so mike chose to move them 4 inches towards his table edge. Solar made the first action using 1 AP (action points are needed to do anything in the game and each character has a maximum AP they can use) to activate up, up and Away* and then move 4 inches forward to a building top. I chose to active Twilight’s Lurk (Lurk allows me to make an opposed using their energy ability vs my Agility ability to see if they can see her to shoot her) ability for 1 Ap and that was my activation. Mike ran Ace up to a wall to get a clear shot at any of my models and to protect the civilians. I used 2 Ap to make a double move and end up behind a truck. Hoodoo activated and made one of her two move actions to move up 4 inches along her left flank. I used 2 Ap and double moved with Guerilla. Solar the flew down behind a trunk for cover. I activated Twilight and Ran her up my left flank. He then activated Hoodoo and commanded the wolf to run 8 inches to support solar. I spent 2 AP to try to shoot Solar with Guerilla’s Daka Boom ability ( any model suffering 1 wound would then suffer and additional 2) I was just shy of the 8 inches need to hit him. Ace activated and tried to shoot me but was out of range of his 8 inches, and thus ending turn 1.

*The Images in this post are property of PulpCity.

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What’s that in the sky? It’s a bird, it’s a plan, it isn’t superman it is the Heros and Villains of Pulp City. I recently picked up a copy of the Pulp City Guide book and the Villains starter set from Black Knight Games in Hamilton Ontario. The owner of Black Knight Games was telling me about this game when he got back from GenCon 2011 Indiana, at first I was thinking great another miniatures game, until he got to the part where he was a Giant ape who picked up a light post and was able to throw it at his opponent, I am sorry but that is awesome. So I watched a few demo’s on YouTube and was completely sold.

Pulp City is a game that allows everyone to play out their fantasy of being a super hero or a villain, in order to play the game you need at least two miniatures, a tape measure four dice, away of keep track of your action pool and interactive terrain. It is best played in a city setting because let’s be honest super hero’s don’t protect open fields with cows in them. The rule book in a hard cover book that was mostly printed in full color it has a great comic book look and when you’re reading over the rule book you feel like your reading a comic to a degree. They have special notes for triggers or important information that has comic book fonts With 11 Chapters to read through it is fairly quick to finish as there is only 140 pages. Unlike some games this book was easy to read, and remember. The coolest thing I found for anyone who likes to covert models, there is a section on creating your own minions, this will allow you to have a Villain and his gang of thugs to suport him. The book retails $34.99 cdn, and is a good starting point if you plan on playing the game.

So we have a our rule book and now we need some miniatures to play with, I am a big fan of the bad guys, so I picked up the villains box set. The art work on the box is pretty cool and keeps up with the comic book feel, once I opened the box it nice to see that it was split into two smaller boxes. The boxes had the miniatures in one, and Bases, cards and bits to glue on in the other, the only down side is they models are small and some of the bits are going to require some green stuff to ensure they stick to the model. However I love the actual models in this box set, the villains that come in the start box are as follows, Nuke, Twilight, The Gentleman, Guerillia and Hellsmith, each model has a card that has his stats, health and special actions. The box also give’s resource cards that your villains are able to use.

I can’t wait to get the models assembled, and painted, once I have my first game I will write a blog about how it went and give more details as to how to play, unless you would like a little more information prior. Leave me some feed back if you would like a follow-up blog on how the game plays and basic rule mechanics.