Weekender XLBS: Pulp City Superheroes & Getting Into Naval Wargaming
October 18, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!
Battle in the box 1775-1783 war for independence would be awesome. American regulars, militia, natives and French verses the American loyalists, British regulars, natives and German (Hessian) mercenaries. If you want to do the Battle of New Orleans you are now in the Napoleonics as that was the Second War for Independence more commonly known as the war of 1812. Of course this was truly just an alternate or second front of the Napoleon French wars that ended with 100 years of European peace with the Congress of Vienna and the budding relationship of the U.S. and Britain following the… Read more »
Happy Sunday everyone!
happy sunday!
Happy sunday
Happy Sunday! The ACW did indeed have a large variety of very different uniforms. both sides had Zouaves with uniforms based loosely around French Colonial troops of the time… hence the fez and baggy red trousers. There were also “Highlanders” in kilts and even some hand me down AWI and Mexican War kit was around at the start, mainly in Confederate units, as uniforms were in very short supply!
Was this the song Warren was talking about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQwxUEPFD4
Aye Aye sailor, I like the look of that!
@warzan, did you learn nothing from my tutorial on the Robins?! Let’s go over it all again and next week there’ll be a test!… Just kidding. To the best of my knowledge Pulp City is inspired by the superhero genre but not based on any IP. It’s been on the fringes of gaming interest for a few years but never quite made the leap. I agree that the current KS seems a step up from what’s gone before. With Batman Miniatures Game, it’s not so much that X can’t fight Y because they’re from different versions of the IP, but… Read more »
Lol
I will ‘continue’ swatting up for it mate 😉
Warren defiantly look at Zouaves and Antietam. The Civil War is an awesome era to game and getting into the background and fallout of the war is really interesting.
Also The Battle of New Orleans was fought during the War of 1812 (Called the Forgotten War) and the Last of the Mohicans was fought during the French Indian War. A cool game to look into is Muskets and Tomahawks from the guys who make Saga which works for all three periods
@warzan, @redben, nerd hats on…. Dick Grayson was the first Robin, who left to form the Titans and changed to the costumed identity of Nightwing to create a clear line under the Robin identity. When Bruce Wayne was missing presumed dead (in the wake of Final Crisis), Dick took up the mantle of Batman with Damian Wayne as his Robin. When Bruce returned Dick remained as Gothams Batman whilst Bruce took his operation international with Batman Inc. As part of the New 52 reboot of DC’s line, Dick was back in the role of Nightwing, until his identity was revealed… Read more »
So who was Red Thrush then?
An ex-girlfriend?…
@dawfydd, the nerd hat can come off?
I suspect that may be a freudian slip all of your own @warzan 😉
And @reben: sadly not that I’ve found.
Oh, and given this fascination with naval action, can I recommend Jim Butchers latest novel, The Aeronaut’s Windlass? Very steampunky but a major element is airships waging war between huge “spires”, each a sovereign nation in it’s own right, keeping humanity save above the ravaged ground. Lot’s of fun combat combining naval & aerial combat into one spiffy whole…
Sometimes.. sometimes.. comments that mean one thing totally strike me as funny for whole different reasons. Well said Mr. Redben, well said.. ex-girlfriend indeed.
Wasn’t she a villain who appeared unwanted out of the sewers, irritated a lot of people but then died when she fell into a tub of Canestan?
He was a little known character who’s only vulnerability was to the very rare element Can E Stan.
hank green is huge youtuber one half of the vlogbrothers channel, you should contact him and get a copy of the game to review for us, plus we can laugh at lloyds face when you make him play it @warzan
Sails of Glory sounds like a lot of fun, manoeuvring, broadsides and whatnot.
However, what it really needs is dragons!
Okay, so I’m in the middle of reading the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik – they’ve actually managed to get me interested in Napoleonics. Trafalgar, armies across Europe, Boney trying to get across the Channel… It’s great.
I don’t suppose anyone has heard of any games based on the series, have they? I thinking that the opportunities for games are immense.
Also all this talk of Zouaves is getting me very confused with Infinity 😉
Big thumbs up to Aeronef as well which is lighter than air naval ships which brigade models make some lovely models for
Do Pulp City have a distributer in the UK or Eurozone?
Pulp-city is based n Poland, I think at the moment you can only order from there website.
I don’t know about distribution but I can tell you that turnaround is pretty quick ordering from their website to the UK. And as they’re based in the EU there’s no Customs charges to worry about.
And their rulebook is a thing of beauty. Not as flashy as the Batman rulebook, but a clean, well laid out design with bold colours and great art. And a fun ruleset, but that’s almost secondary 😉
Happy Sunday!
Boswell? the heart of British Super-Heroes like “the Apologist” 😉 Home Raiders is delivering soon, they’re coming in bok-like storage bxes, additional boxes with foam available in the PM. Don’t die… $35 (inc p&p) for a quick pickup? Wizard School… different pledge & postage same overall price… $35. Looks more fun though! (Reminder – must pickup a copy of Evil Baby Orphanage & Jetpack Unicorn!) & how could you NOT preview Halfling Feast – an eating game based around H0bb1t$ (disclaimer – definitely not those LOTR folk) eating lots of stuff! FINISHING WITHIN 24 Hours – £15 gets the game… Read more »
I hate my tablet’s screen keyboard!
Saxon were not a Hair Metal band! They were part of the NWOBHM… Ok they went a bit radio in the later parts of the 80s
Even Maiden had a touch of the hair metal about them 😉
Wash your mouth out, please!!!
I rest my case me Lord 😉
its only hair metal when you can visibly see 12 cans of hair spray have used
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YMZU3mVqzWY/maxresdefault.jpg
My accusation is now officially withdrawn lol
The Perrys box, is on my Christmas List. Would be cool if there are Zouaves in the box.
there are! not many, but they’re in there 🙂
The Perry’s box set reminds me of the old Featherstone book where it suggests you buy a box of Airfix Union and Confederate troops and he gives you basic rules to use before adding Cavalry and artillery and building up your forces from there
Excellent find Lloyd, just picked up the Puma and the Hanomag for my Bolt Action Germans…
Vikings would raid Vikings, as the Saxons would at least raid the “local” Viking settlements -a lot of it would be more a question of Kin than where you were from
And from the man who’s the closest living thing to a viking I know – THIS IS FACT 😉
@warzan check out the AWI tv show: Turn- Washingtons Spies. I’ve just finished series 2 both 1&2 are on Amazon streaming service.
In regards to Japan there were several engagements over the years with Korea and China. I plan to cover one of the major campaigns the Imjin War, in my article series; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_(1592–98)
Was that not the only time it happened though? Atleast in regards to that period (the period the perrys have minis for ie samurai).
it always seems odd to me when you guys say happy sunday and were now off to game…. you’ve told us you record the show, ‘usually on a Thursday I think it was, so it always makes me smile when you pretend to be off to play games or go car booting in warren’s case 😀
Wasn’t recorded on a Thursday 🙂
And I did go car booting (got bugger all though!) 😉
For years I wondered why Brucie would tell the audience they were so much better than last week’s..
Friday then 😉 lol
It wasn’t Sunday though which was my point 😀
Never the less – still makes me smile…
I am Ill today so up early this time, normally I don’t watch till after dinner on a Sunday… So there’s no way you recorded this and published it by 7am unless you are that committed that you need committing 😀
Good show though guys – get us some more on Cold War Pulp City please 🙂
PS: yes good find Lloyd, just picked up the M16 for BA.