Anxiously Awaiting.... PULP CITY

I've been a Super Hero fan since birth. Any and Everything Super Hero I devoured growing up (and I haven't finished growing up yet! ).

When TSR came out with their Marvel Super Hero Roleplaying game and Mayfair came out with the DC Hero Roleplaying game, I was in Heaven. Pure, Simple Heaven. There was Champions, Villains and Vigilantes... Living Legends... Mutants & Masterminds... God Like... Super System (and Super System II)..... you name it, I own it. I have every adventure published, downloaded, etc.

But now... Now there is....
PULP-CITY!

I eat, live, breath, shoot, shit Super Hero's. My all time favorite is Dr. Strange, followed by a very close 2nd in Batman. Neither uses a gun and neither believes in taking a life.

I was totally jazzed when I first heard about Pulp Monster creating a Super Hero Skirmish game, I had to be in on it.

I had the honor of play testing this game. It ROCKS! That's with a CAPITAL R. If you are a Super Hero Aficionado like me, then this game IS FOR YOU!

I was first turned on to Pulp-City when I was looking for a Top Dog mini for my Gangs of Mega City One Ape Gang. And I found it in Guerilla. But then I found that Guerilla is for a Super Hero Skirmish Game..... then they showed the preview of Nuke.... OMG!!! That is one of my all time favorite sculpts. I cannot wait to get him into my grubby little hands! And then there is Red Riding Hoodoo, who's full of Voodoo..... and Mourn...

You can download the cards for the mini's at their download site and the teams that make up the starter sets.

The game has metal mini's for the hobbiest and a great set of rules for the gamers. I personally don't mind well done Pre-paints, but for those who don't like PPP, then rejoice, these are metal mini's that you have to paint. Normally I might turn away, but the sculpts are simply incredible. I will definitely enjoy painting these.

Here is the Hero Starter Team:


They are (left to right) Ace of Wraiths, Iron Train, Red Riding Hoodoo, Solar, Androida.

Here is the Villain Starter Team:

They are (left to right): Nuke, Twilight, Hellsmith, Guerilla, Gentlemen.

For starters, these are awesome sculpts and are an absolute hoot to play.

Due to the NDA I signed I won't go into great detail about the rules, but they include civilians and their ability to totally muck up a hero and their ability to fight the bad guys.

All I can say is that I will be devouring everything this company produces for this game.

I have not been this jazzed about something super hero coming out since the computer game Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs the Third Reich was released (both are totally awesome games btw)!

The company is from Eastern Europe (Poland). Praise Allah for the Wall coming down and all the globalization that's going on. Lots of people damn it, but I embrace it. Without globalization, great minds like the creative team behind Pulp Monsters would have great difficulty bringing their creations to a world market.

My Hats off to Pulp Monsters and their first Creation. Great job folks! And thanks for the opportunity to assist.

On the Blue Mountain Manufacturing Theme....

Low and behold, Teresa at Blue Moon Manufacturing posted to the The Miniatures Page, http://theminiaturespage.com/news/675131...

OMG!!!!

Those are fantastic. Put with what Blue Moon already offers..... I think I'm gonna joygasm....

I cannot believe that they are coming out with such awesomeness.

And I just ordered a whole set of stuff last Thursday..... :cry: I am getting the Razor Back with this order.

Now they have the new ones. OMG with the Old Glory Army Discount, that's $30 USD a piece.... :faints:

And I saw that this month is Teresa's Birthday Month, so Happy Birthday Teresa!!!

Tol'ya the Old Glory Army deal was AWESOME!

Old Glory Army

I discovered Old Glory Miniatures at about the same time I discovered Blue Moon Manufacturing. I looked at their selection and posted to various boards about their quality and one dude (SeattleGamer at World Works Games) stated that their miniatures were decent and a really good deal if you joined their Old Glory Army.....

SO.......

I took the plunge and paid my $50 and OMG!!! With 40% off their Mini's (and they have not only their own, but Blue Moon Manufacturing AND WestWind AND SuperFigs AND Crusader Miniatures. If you just get $125 worth of them, you break even. But they send you a FREE Mini every month. Last year (and I missed out on that one) was Pirates!! Damn it! But this year has been cowboys and they have been very, very impressive. They come with a write up, telling you about the mini. Most are actual historical figures. This is a great deal. I'll be signing up again next year too. I'll be ordering more stuff soon (to make sure I get the best deal possible!).

I still have SuperFigs to get for use with SuperSystem, and their West Wind Mini's are great, especially the Lucifer Wars figures.

The Lucifer Wars sculpts are really nice and if you join the army, you get them for a really great price.

The Gothic Horror minis as I mentioned are both from Blue Moon Manufacturing AND West Wind Productions. So you get the best of both worlds.

I could go on and on about this great deal and great company (excellent customer service) but I won't. Check it out and see for your self.

CHOW!

Blue Moon Manufacturing

A while ago I found a company that really impressed me.

Blue Moon Manufacturing

I can't remember how I discovered this particular company, but I have some of their "Bump in the Night Sets".

I have Box 1 I Had Such a Howling Good Time set and I rate these an 8 out of 10. The main werewolf post is great and I really like the action and terror the pose instills. The only drawback is it is a bit top heavy and I had to add weight to the base to keep from knocking it over. The other figures too are well done and I am very impressed by the sculpts. Even the Victorians that come with it are detailed and hopefully I will do them justice when I paint them. Once I get my work place back I'll finish him up so I can post some pictures. I'm hoping to get these guys painted for Halloween horror gaming.

Box 2 You're Such a Pain in the Neck is a set of vampires and their hunters. This is where Blue Moon drops the ball as far as monsters go. The vampire sculpts are as impressive as the Werewolves on action, so the monsters here only get a 5, but the detail on the Victorians really make up for it and they get a 9. The set itself is worth the Victorians, especially the Van Helsing figure.

Their upcoming Things that go Bump in the Night: Aliens and Spacement has me jazzed. So Jazzed that I started writing up rules for them (a modification of the Chaos in Carpathia rules).

The vehicles that they just released for the Aliens and Spacemen look like good old fashion pulp Sci-Fi from the 40's and 50's. I can't wait to get my hands on them and hopefully my rules adaptation will bring those babies to life.

Unfortunately I need my workspace back in order to have the models come to life with a good paint job.

Ah but the posibilities are endless.

Thanks Blue Mountain Manufacturing!

Been a while.....

Wow, been more than a month since I posted.

With the condo remodel, the significant other has taken over the work space with boxes that need to be gone through after 20 years of hording. So that is what I've been up to.

Hopefully that will motivate me to get rid of all the stuff so I can paint and built again (which means I can play again too).

Check ya later!

Iron Stars

I picked up a game (download PDF's) called Iron Stars.

It is a Victorian Era space opera tabletop wargaming. I have an affinity for Victorian Era gaming. It was a time when the world was still mostly unexplored and great names were being made in history. Now throw in Science Fiction on top of it with Ethereal Flyers that travel between the Earth and Mars. So Jules Verne's vision of "From The Earth To The Moon" comes alive.

The role playing game SPACE:1889 was a wonderful game by defunk Games Designer's Workshop. They also produced Sky Galleons of Mars (a table top game of flying ships on Mars). It was truly incredible and I still have my copy. (And I have to give a plug to Noise Monster's Production of 4 radio shows (on CD) based on SPACE:1889!)

Iron Stars brings Majestic 12 Games vision of World History and incorporating the HG Wells "War of the Worlds" aftermath and subsequent knowledge of "offworlders" in a great little game.

The book is laid out very well and the rules are easy to understand. The rules are easy to understand and flow well. The reference cards for the ships are well laid out and easy to understand. With just a few reads of the rules and some quick ship vs ship combat I no longer needed to review the rulebook.

Each book comes with Card Stock ships (basically triangles with the picture of the ships on them). Since the book is a PDF, you can print as many ships as you need to create the types of fleets that you want for the fleets laid out in the books.

The only drawback to the game is it is based on d10. And the ONLY reason I consider that a drawback is that if someone not familiar with wargaming in general would not have d10's on hand. Having the game based on a d6 would have opened it up to a broader audience. Of course this is an extremely minute drawback. Games requiring other die types have been around for decades. So access to such dice should be quite easy.

I highly recommend it. (I also have the two supplements and I highly recommend those too).

AGE OF RAG'NAROK

I finally received my Confrontation:Age of Rag'Narok (C:AOR)! And I gotta say, Hmmm Hmmm Good.

See the Trailer!

I plan on collecting the Army of the Wolf! And probably a Hydra or Ram army as well.

The Armies are broken up into three catagories (ok 4 if you include Immobilis which I think are Mercs in the world of Confrontation). They are Ways of Light, Paths of Destiny, Meanders of Darkness , which to me are Good, Neutral and Evil. You can see the different listings here.

If I do, do an Army that follows Ways of Light, then it will probably be a Boar Army, but then I might go for Lion too. All depends on what the Army Books contain.

I play Rackham's AT-43 (as you can tell from my previous posts) and figure that since I like AT-43 so much that the C:AOR would be just as good. From what I've read in the rulebook, it has not disappointed me. I can't make my final decision until I get some gaming goodness in with some real armies, not just the current boxed set. But having the boxed set will definitely get me started.

I really hope that Rackham's financial and distribution issues are behind them not and they can steam forward to get product out the door and into my greedy hands! (LOL)

Of course this all boils down to PrePaints (PP) vs Metal Miniatures (MM) which come unpainted and require time to do so. Personally I favor both. MM provide more detail and I find it very relaxing to paint them. Unfortunately I'm up to 56K+ on unpainted Mini's and having the PP mini's is a treat because I just open the box, pull out the Mini's and play.

So the Hobbiest in my loves the MM, but the gamer in me loves the PP.

I just don't understand the conflict between the two camps. If you like painting, then don't buy PP or buy them and repaint them. If you like gaming more, buy PP. Jeesh.

That's my rant, 2 cents, etc for the day.

CHOW!