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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Menelduir on August 07, 2018, 02:38:57 PM
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I have decided to maintain one thread for future AAR's and general postings for our TOS campaign. We have been playing this campaign for quite some time now. At first we thought it might not take so long, after all it could potentially take only 5 games to finish the campaign. However that has not been the way it has worked out.
Only two out of the four players won their chapter 1 games. Therefore 2 players had to play Cairo Caper to gain a relic. For one player it took only one try to gain a relic. For the other player, well we just gave up on him ever getting a relic after his third attempt...
The three players with relics advanced through the chapter 2 adventures, each playing no more than 2 scenarios. The three players then formed a team to take on the chapter 3 scenarios. They breezed through the Burning Desert scenario, and looked set to powerhouse their way through the Nameless Ruins. However they became victims of having combined themselves into one ad hoc league. Because they were three leagues it meant that 6 cards were drawn per turn to determine what servants they would encounter. Even though most of them were mounted or had other means to traverse the board in a quick manner they found themselves bogged down by the sheer number of enemies the materialized.
A quick shout out to Dave for making me paint a large number of figures to cover off on all possible card draws :) I am quite happy to have been inspired to get more of my unpainted figures finished off!
To date we have played the Nameless Ruins 4 times, with victory going to the good guys only once. From the Nameless Ruins we went onto the tomb itself were the much reduced leagues fell to the forces of evil. After this last defeat, the leading league decided to return to Cairo to look for the relic he did not have, and to gain some more experience and reputation. He is determined not to have to rely on other leagues to get back to the tomb. The other league that had attempted the tomb with him disbanded and the player has started a new league, with no better success than the previous league (2 games 2 defeats)
The third league played the Nameless Ruins again and again went down to defeat. A fourth league had to drop out as he had moved back to the Toronto area and strangely did not feel like driving 5 hours to continue playing in the campaign. lol
So after this past weekend August 4th, one league remains poised at the Nameless Ruins, another is about to leave Cairo for the Burning Desert, and the third league (the newly formed league) remains stuck in Cairo.
Overall the games have been a lot of fun with some good challenges. We have been playing once a month which does make it seem like we have been doing this for a long time, but really we have not played that many games, but certainly more than the 5 that we thought we might get away with.
Here are some pics from last weekend, no AAR for any of the games this time, but more at my blog.
http://menelduir.blogspot.com/ (http://menelduir.blogspot.com/)
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Fabulous terrain and figures, I hope you post more .
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Wow! What a beautiful looking game. Who makes the buildings and that glorious bus? :-*
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Thank you
Blue door buildings are by Crescent Root, they arrived pre-assembled and ready to go.
Interior buildings, the museum, are from Sally 4th.
The bus was a lucky flea market find. It is made by Solido, it is a 1/50 1934 Renault bus.
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Great looking games! I don’t have TOS yet, but the structure sounds interesting. Look forward to seeing more of your campaign as it develops.
Matt
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Superb! :-* :-* :-*
These Crescent Root buildings have been on my Wish List for some time...it's great to see them in action.
A wonderful setting with tons of character. A joy to behold.
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Great market stalls, a lovely bit of colour and character.
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There's so much damn talent on this site I that I rarely get the time to say how impressed I am with their work. But this stuff? Holy cow. This is damn fine work.
A. Scott Glancy
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It's nice to see ,a large collection of crescent root buildings on one table. Definitely sell a kidney price range this side of the pond.I do have their station set very versitle it is too its been dockside buildings(as I think part of yours has.)An airport,and a village,as well as the station .I wish I could have afforded the large domed building as well. But Hay ho, I ended up have to improvise and use Supreme little designs buildings. (I did a short thread on how to achieve the crescent look on other buildings
It's nice to see some budget conscious items blending in nicely with the crescent stuff. Be it second hand buses,or the paper boat re enforcing the storytelling / table theme.
Should add a few more pictures from your blog though ;)
Mark.
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THANKS for sharing your progress. This really sound a truly epic adventure. :o
Excellent report! I am excited to see this continue.
I feel like there is a bit of a learning to curve to some of the scenarios, and they tend to be a easier on the 2nd (or 4th) time through. ;)
Really like that desk and file cabinet in the last photo. :D :D
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It's nice to see ,a large collection of crescent root buildings on one table. Definitely sell a kidney price range this side of the pond.I do have their station set very versitle it is too its been dockside buildings(as I think part of yours has.)An airport,and a village,as well as the station .I wish I could have afforded the large domed building as well. But Hay ho, I ended up have to improvise and use Supreme little designs buildings. (I did a short thread on how to achieve the crescent look on other buildings
It's nice to see some budget conscious items blending in nicely with the crescent stuff. Be it second hand buses,or the paper boat re enforcing the storytelling / table theme.
Should add a few more pictures from your blog though ;)
Mark.
First off thanks for the comments
I have to say this side of the border and with the Canadian dollar rarely performing any where close to par, the Crescent Root building certainly impacted on my budget too. Oh well the pension fund was just sitting there anyways.
Loved the buildings when I first saw them used by Ivor on his Saturday mornings blog.
More dollars than sense I suppose.
Should have said thank you to you a while back for putting me onto Supreme Littleness Designs and for your thread on painting them. Yes it was a short thread, hoping for more nudge nudge ;) (what blue paint do you use on the door?)
Used your ideas on some Tabla Rasa buildings from Knights of Dice too.
I always hesitate on posting too many pictures, kind of thought we were not supposed to go too pic heavy.
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Really like that desk and file cabinet in the last photo. :D :D
Thanks Dave.
Gee I wonder where I got the desks and cabinets, if only I could remember...
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I always hesitate on posting too many pictures, kind of thought we were not supposed to go too pic heavy.
Oh, don't be silly - the more the better! Some stirling work here, so far better to flaunt it.
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I have to agree with the doodler. The more the merrier. Never quite got my head round threads that are little more than a link.I like to see plenty of pictures here.not be sent on a quest across the ether.to find what someone's on about.
In all honesty I couldn't justify the expense so mine came via a trade/barter for a sculpt.
The paint I used was, Game colour electric blue.
I've recently finished a back of beyond Armoured train in card . So the next challenge was for a medival castle so I'll add something relevant to that (since you asked ;) )
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Oh, don't be silly - the more the better! Some stirling work here, so far better to flaunt it.
Total agree. If you've got photos of games and figures post them!
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Okay, some more pics. :)
All of these will be from the current TOS campaign. Hopefully few repeats from any other post.
Still plan to do some more AAR, so for now some images from chapter 1.
Up first some pics from The Side Show of Terror. Some are pregame pictures when trying to figure out the set up, others are in game.
The tents are round boxes with printed tent images wrapped around them. Originally I was going to just use the paper tens as they had been printed, but by lucky happenstance it worked out that the tents were the same size as the boxes, so I inserted the boxes and wound up with a more substantial bit of scenery that could withstand the rigors of gaming. I left the tent tops separate from the base so that they could be removed for easy access to the inside. Foolishly I tried to attach the roofs to the box lids, it did not work so well. In the end it was easier just to perch the tent tops on the boxes.
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Thought I would share some of the 140+ figures painted up for this campaign. Most were newly painted for this campaign, some had been partially painted before, and some needed retouching (and judging by the pictures I missed a few) Some of them were only used for one game, and some like the boom bot (silent running droids) were painted just in case we needed something to go boom.
Certainly don't need this number of figures to play the campaign, but it does help when your group plays 2-3 games at the same time! Only 1 of the 4-5 players had a painted league of their own so I did have to prep figures for the other leagues. In what I suspect was an effort to drive me around the bend two players decided to have fully mounted leagues, so double the number of figures had to be painted. ;D
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Now that is commitment.
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fantastic stuff
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A red letter day in our TOS campaign, after 5 attempts by one of our regulars, he has finally completed the Cairo Caper episode! Sadly as this was our 5th kick at the can, we did not fully document the game, big mistake. The player controlling the servants decided to have a bit of fun with them, once they appeared on the table of course.
In the past it could be argued that card play had been the undoing of our hero, this time he was the instrument of his own doom when he chose to use SHOOT to resolve a 'use any skill' peril.
It was turn 3 he had been on track so far, having achieved the first two plot points. Now however he was down to his last figure to try and complete the third plot point. Not only did he use SHOOT, but he also failed the challenge, either one of these would and did trigger the alarm and brought out the servants.
Out came the servants, 3 insane mobs, 4 abominations, 1 Faceless, and 1 serpent priest. It could and should have been his doom, but, thankfully, the servants player decided to have some fun having the mobs operate in an erratic manner, two of them trying to board a bus, while the third mob looked to board a boat. One of the abominations went after a riderless horse, and the faceless one decided to jump start a car the player always likes to use any vehicles that appear on a gaming table. The car in this case just happened to have a plot point! Even with this chaos of activity the servants still did try to stymie the efforts of the hero and, in the end, it came down to the last action of the only character that could act to achieve the plot point. She did iy, and we will never have to play this scenario again. :)
Now of course if the faceless one had driven the car in reverse instead of driving forward and slamming into the bus, the hero would not have been in range of the final plot point, and would not have completed the game.
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Extra extra read all about it!
Actually not that much to read but I will post up more stuff of some of our recent games.
Bottom line we have finished our third Pulp Alley campaign. Will start to gear up for Lemuria in the new year, but in the meantime we plan to visit some other location, now just where will we be going...
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Holy shit that Venice board.
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Thats quite a commitment. I'd have to sell a kidney. I think it looks quiet serviceable in the raw mdf. Although I am intrigued to see how long it takes to paint.
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Thats quite a commitment. I'd have to sell a kidney. I think it looks quiet serviceable in the raw mdf. Although I am intrigued to see how long it takes to paint.
So am I...
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Wow! Looks amazing.
Also -- I think your new terrain could even be used for some Lemuria scenarios! ;)
THANKS for playing and sharing Pulp Alley. :D
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Beautiful collection and terrain!
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Holy shit that Venice board.
My thoughts exactly on seeing it first time. That's a stunning piece of scenery.
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Maybe after Venice my group will return to the Americas...
Made a lucky find at a local second hand store some old Indiana Jones toys. They should work fine for a temple adventure.
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Damn! Those are great!
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Lovely models.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=111190.0;attach=87382;image)
Never has "It's behind you" seemed more appropriate...
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Those look great.
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Wow! Great find. :-*
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Wow! Great find. :-*
They are dated 1982 on the back, and are, of course, Indiana Jones related. The tall one is a spider trap that would hang from a door, while the other is a 'spear' trap. I do not think they were reissued, so how they wound up in a second hand store 36 years later is a mystery, just happy that I happened into the store that day... :)
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A red letter day in our TOS campaign, after 5 attempts by one of our regulars, he has finally completed the Cairo Caper episode! ...
I just read this post for the first time and had to try hard not to laugh out loud in the office. Thanks for the description...