Yesterday I set up another 2'x2' board to continue re-learning Pulp City. This time is was a 9-level villain vs. villain showdown. I had found my Warhammer cemetery scenery during my hobby cleanup this month and thought it would look good on one of the urban mats Mantic produced years back for Mars Attacks.
After my first refresher game I have been collecting the various dice and tokens needed to play the game. While I do know another person in town who has some Pulp City figures, it's been ages since we played due to our schedules seldom aligning. Other than attack and suppress tokens, I think I'm pretty close to having what I need.
I played both sides in the game as though it were a normal 2-player game, as a simple brawl with no plots or agendas.
The blue team was almost pure "Shadow Axis" faction, comprised of Big Brain, Alpha Male & Mayhem, Immolator, Blackthorn and Twilight. The red team was a more varied group of villains with Gentleman, Anansi, Doom Train, Nightfright and Hellsmith on the team.
Hellsmith was the first casualty, followed by Nightfright and Anansi on team red, with only Twilight ko'd on the blue side over the first two rounds. After round three, with a very lonely and AP-poor Doom Train left on the table against Blackthorn and the two wrestlers, there was no way for team red to win so I packed it up and declared a blue victory.
Team blue was definitely more rounded and was generating at least 3 more action points each round. Team red lacked in attack options, especially after Hellsmith was taken down. Doom Train feels like he is missing a really good attack option, but would serve well in a larger team, likely best in a pure Necroplane crew.
The newer characters produced by Kitbash Games certainly felt right at home mixed in with the earlier Pulp City characters. Blackthorn in particular feels very powerful. The trees he can summon provide several benefits, and his pulse thorn attack is really nice.
Next game I'll add in the 'master plan' rules, and then hopefully by game four I'll have a second leader model painted to face off against Dead-Eye and his vigilantes.
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