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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: bluewillow on 16 August 2009, 11:48:34 AM
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1930’s Turmoil on Ragnorak Island (or Pulp adventure at the Goulburn Wargames Club)
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The Island of Ragnorak
The RRC
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The peaceful Island of Ragnorak has become the centre of International Interest when the Secret Society of VRIL (Proto Nazi Cultists) unearth a strange stone circle on one of the mountains of Ragnorak, The Local Ragnorak Royal Constabulary (RCC) are a little worried by the operation of the VRIL society, so they contact the University of Glasgow asking for the foremost Professor in supernatural archaeology, Professor Buggarov (A White Russian, who came to fame in some certain Black and White, almost Silent Sweedish movies in the thirties) to inspect and survey the strange rock formation.
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Professor Buggerov and his assistants Chloe and Zoe
Professor Buggarov brings along his very able assistants Chloe and Zoë (pronounced with a Russian accent) and employs Montana Starkadder a well known Adventurer and all round good guy. However Montana mentions the expedition to his Father who informs his youngest Brother Bertram Starkadder (the black sheep of the family) that his older erstwhile brother is off on another “Grand Adventure”.
"Montana" Jack, Elana and Katerina
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Bertram just happens to have a love interest with Naughty Lola who leads the Rhino Sky Pirates (RSP) and they also head of to the Island, guessing that VRIL will take there latest Proto type plane the Dornier 335 with them.
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Naughty Lola, avaitrix of the Sky Pirates
VRIL Leader Oberst Fatima Von Hreich
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Meanwhile the VRIL have contacted their allies the Imperial Japanese naval commander Teriyaki Kawasaki, and informed him that they have recovered an ancient Samurai Sword and are prepared to trade with the Japanese for some Moon Jade Gem stone, which is only found in Manchuria, VRIL believe that the Moon Jade Gem stone has the ability to power up the stone circle when the Summer Solstice arrives.
Teriyaki Kawasaki’s men contracted the notorious warlord Whoo Flung Dung’s gang to mine the Jade Moon Stone Gems, Teriyaki then refused to pay the warlord, so he has followed the Japanese to the Island to investigate the spoils on the island and just what they need the Jade Moon Gems for.
Finally The Ragnorak Liberation Front lead by Eric Blair (who just wants to write his autobiography), is sick of all of these adventures and general scumbags from upsetting his ideal world.
Noted novelist Eric Blair seemingly somewhat lost during the action
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Michelle of the RFF
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Turn 1
At the docks and wetlands end of the table, but immmediatly draw a event card, Dinosaurs in the woods is drawn! :o lol
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first to arrive by air are the sky pirates
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then the chinese by sea, the RRC Se5 and A/C arrive to check things out
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then the japanes sub arrives
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Turn 1
Meanwhile The University of Glasgow team, lead by Prof Buggerov and Montana Starkadder arrive in thier upgunned chevy and drive to the strange rock formation.
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The VRIL leave thier castle and head off towards the Rock, forgetting they have to link up with the Japanese first ;D
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and the RLF also head to intent on destroying it
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Turn 2 to 5
The Chinese Refuse to obey the RCC who ask for passports and a fill out the customs declarations lol
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The RRC are not happy and open up with pistols, a A/C and the SE5 (dropping grenades)
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the chinese flee away from the RRC
The Sky Pirates meanwhile head towards the Dornier 335
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the japanese also arrive at the docks, the RRC plane investigates and cops a warning shot for its troubles
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Turn 4-8
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the sky Pirates take the dornier forfilling the first part of their mission, however the next event card drawn is wasps, so remain stationary for one turn swatting the pesky blighters, then the remaining sky pirates head off towards the submarine.
The chinese get pinned by the RRC while tring to take out the Dornier while it is on the ground and then get shot up by Naughty Lola in some nasty enfalide fire. :'(
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the japanese also unload the troops and the carrier tank which scares off the RRC armoured car
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Meanwhile the survey springs an event card which trigger the enamoured event card, meaning no action for 6 turns, giving time for the Glasgow uni to plant a bomb amounst the rocks
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VRIL also trigger a event card and come up against a RLF werewolf :o which manages to cut them all to shreds lol lol
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WOW! :-*
regards
jim
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turn 8 to 12
the chinese fail to destroy the dornier so hide behind the church some are still pinned
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the werewolf takes on the leader of VRIL Fatima Von Hreich
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The mounted RRC chase the japanese tank towards the VRIL castle, pay your arrival tax or we will.....yell at you LOUDLY lol
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Naughty Lola manages to inflict two damge shots of the RCC SE5
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The RRC flying corps decide to land, the A/C picks up the pilots who are a little distrissed by events
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RLF plant the bomb
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Professor Buggerov and Montana return to the car "yelling at the girls "you difuse the bomb" :o
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The Japanese manage to swap the gems and start to return to the Submarine
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Naughty Lola, the Sky Pirates , the RCC and the chinese try to prevent the link up, desperate
Heroic actions by one Kamakazie car driver with a grenade manages to stop the chinese from being effective, the RRC manage to shoot a majority of the crew abandoning the tank
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but two japanese manage to make it to the submarine
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Teriyaki Kawasak forfills both of his missions, 17 shots in the last two turns failed to kill the tough Nippon, who rolled some miraculous saves and still had heroic moves left at the end of the game.
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and from my perspective..I was playing Professor Buggarov and his crew..Buggarov was working for British intelligence as it happened
The gang debuses from the "Montanamobile"
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hmmmm Nazi troublemakers
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"I vill only tell you zis vunce"..actually as she told Katerina she should have told her twice as Katerina got the messagae completely wrong..
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freedom fighters
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Nazi leader
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Nazi type
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Naughty Lola's Curtiss
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Naughty Lola, avaitrix of the Sky Pirates
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Ragnarock mounties air wing, before lola shot it down
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The team deployed around the "Montanamobile"
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Michelle of the RFF
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Nazi Leader meets "the wolf"
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Anna Kuragin and Archie Moran
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The Japanese submarine I 2580 and the armoured troop carrier
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Ragnarok mounties taking cover behind their armoured car
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Noted novelist Eric Blair seemingly somewhat lost during the action
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Lola finishing the Nazis off
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Montana and Anna Kuragan during their strange encounter with the mysterious lady..
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the Professor and Chloe examining the stone formations
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The Ragnarok mounties pursuing the RFF
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Professor Buggarov and his assistants Zoe & Chloe
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"Montana" Jack, Elana , Katerina & "Boy" Browning
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Wow, points all around. Nicely painted minis, a great board, awesome adventure and pictures. And extra points for some amusing and clever character names. A lot of fun there, thanks for sharing it with us.
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a bit of doubling up but it makes for twice the fun..actually Bugarov planted the bomb after surveying and photographing the stone formation all done under instructions from a shadowy British contact..and Michelle's message, unfortunately delivered only once was misunderstood. It was only after Bugarov realised that he needed several measurements he had overlooked that the team returned to the stones, knowing they had 20 minutes to get away .when they arrived back at the stone they found the freedom fighters were engaged with the almost superhuman Nazi cultist leader..on the FF explained that destroying the stones would release some unspeakable evil..or worse , so Buggerov detailed Chloe to disarm the bomb, and then jumped into the Montanmobile and urged Elana the driver to reverse "several hundred metre...fast' fortunately Chloe proved equal to the task with about thirty seconds to spare..good one girl!!!!, and "Boy" Browning shot the Vril sniper who was in the tower, and causing a bit of concern..with the Vril dispersed and dead and the constabulary on horseback and with armoured car coming into view the gang mounted up and drove off at speed for their rendezvous with a British submarine on the other side of the island. The Professor and his two undergraduate assistants are back in Glasgow and the whereabouts of "Montana" Jack and his chums is unknown,,though there was some sort riot in a bar in Hobart where a number of grenades were detonated..and grenades in a bar is usually an indication that Jack and crew are around.
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Great report, thanks for posting. 8)
What rules did you use?
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What rule system are you using??
Nice looking game, figures and an interesting game report. Talk about changes and crzay twists in a plot.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
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Wow! What an EPIC post!!! Looks like fun was had by all. All the minis and terrian were amazing!
Was the Curtiss "Fighter" from the film, "Porco Rosso"? I had a similiar Curtiss a few years ago, with the prop from a Japanese Zero.
Anyway, Ripping!
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Pulp-tacular! :-*
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Greywolf and Starkadder made up a set of 1 page rules, with some special rules for various groups, all very fast and furious ..a lot of roleplay and free kriegspiel..
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Was the Curtiss "Fighter" from the film, "Porco Rosso"? I had a similiar Curtiss a few years ago
It was indeed the Curtiss, a fabulous kit. I also have Porco's Savoia-Marchetti, again a wonderful kit. If anyone knows of a 1/48 Dornier Wal I'll have that in a second!
Just to make the game more confusing, I played Lola and the Sky Pirates and the Starkadder extended family was played by Conrad.
It was one of the funniest games I've ever played and was a credit to everyone involved, particularly Loudon for his moderation and Bluewillow for his amazing terrain box.
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A great day was had by all, lots of laughing, foreign accents and fair play lol, I played the luckless Chinese who didn't manage to achieve much at all except get shot at ::), and master bluewillow Jnr played the Japanese and managed to pull off the best finnish in a game I have ever seen. Lots of Dinos interupted myself and the sky pirates. The game really split into two halves with three teams in the village and three teams in the woods, the japanese and the RCC really were the only teams to cross the mental divide.
The rules were written by Greywolf and Starkadder, Terrain by myself and Greg, the ships were scratch built by me, various vehicle and aircraft kits by the guys, the Se5 is a paper model built by Greg, dinos are plastic repainted, Japanese and chinese are Bob Murch figs, a few copplestones, some foundry, ral partha, and some other figure ranges.
cheers
matt
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Great looking game. :-*
Looks like you had a lot of fun.
So much going on, very pulpy :D
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wow what a great battle report enjoyed every second of it
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Liking that muchly :-* :-*
cheers
James
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Just great, you guys. That looks and sounds like a game to remember. Thanks for posting!
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Just great, you guys. That looks and sounds like a game to remember. Thanks for posting!
so your spaceship is called the 13th Floor Elevators?
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Heavens,I'm a little surprised at the response.Thanks Conrad and Bluewillow for posting.
I noticed however that some of the figures did not get the correct company names.So here they are;
Mine are a Artisan (Mike Owens figure's inspired the whole thing)
Hasslefree
Westwind
Vehicles;Tamiya,Finemolds
Other figures are ;
Bluewillow
Bob Murch Pulp
40K tank and various civil cars
Conrad;
Copplestone
Greg;
Bob Murch
Biplane internet download card
Armoured car Honourable Lead Boiler Suit,computer is going weird may have to post again.......
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Back...
The terrain was by Greg and mostly Bluewillow(including the sub),I did a tiny bit ,the tower.The storyline grew out of my love for Mike Owens figure's and my great friend Starkadder's inspiration.The rules my own concoction.The whole event in some ways was a playtest and a sequel to events(and a campaign) that are about to take off.The campaign will be largely written around a storyline that Starkadder came up with,which we discuss and draw inspiration from,strangely enough as much from fact as from fiction. I am doing my usual lupine rambling......anyway lookout for more Naughty Lola, Undead Albert Ball and Montana Starkadder.
"there will be blood" This is a Greywolf Starkadder production
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oh yes I forgot about the appearance of the undead Albert Ball and the resurrected BE2c..you need an undead nuiport for his appearances..do we need an undead Werner Voss?
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Well done Matt and your gang. Really lovely work on the table terrain an a excellent report.
Helen
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Congratulations on a superb looking game, it has everything you'd want in a pulp game. Thanks for showing us these, lots of ideas.
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To everyone who enjoyed this,look forward to the next............The Moonstone anyone?
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Well done Matt and your gang. Really lovely work on the table terrain an a excellent report.
As always, I enjoyed knocking out another round of terrain and figures for the game, and it was not that distant from our regular gaming at the club except for the werewolf and dino's lol
Must post some decent pics of the chinese and Japanese with the planned individual gang names too.
cheers
matt
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To everyone who enjoyed this,look forward to the next............The Moonstone anyone?
You never cease to amaze my dear Greywolf. I've just finished reading the Haunted Hotel to my beloved wife. Perfect bedtime book. You can't go past the old Wilkie...
Well you can, but you'll probably come back for a chat.
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You never cease to amaze my dear Greywolf. I've just finished reading the Haunted Hotel to my beloved wife. Perfect bedtime book. You can't go past the old Wilkie...
Well you can, but you'll probably come back for a chat.
We no longer need the televisual communication devices Starkadder,with our mind power we can rule the world bwahahaha........etcetera
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Who makes that fig of the gal on the rock as seen in:
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The game looks like a great time! Nicely done boards! o_o
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Thanks for posting!!!
Most inspiring Pulp pictures I have ever seen ;D
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is this miniature made by Artizan?
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Who makes that fig of the gal on the rock as seen in:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g185/blue-willow/Pulp/100_3391.jpg
The game looks like a great time! Nicely done boards! o_o
Hasselfree I think..Greywolf know exaxtly
and the figures above are Artizan..
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is this miniature made by Artizan?
Yes it is, my good sir.
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Who makes that fig of the gal on the rock as seen in:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g185/blue-willow/Pulp/100_3391.jpg
The game looks like a great time! Nicely done boards! o_o
The lady on the rock is indeed Hasslefree,and she's lovely.She's in their deamonette collection.Hasslefree one of the best,good sculpts and the detail is not fussy.The subjects get me as well..............
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Hasselfree I think..Greywolf know exaxtly
and the figures above are Artizan..
Thanks all for your answers
I could not find them in Artizan WWII, infact the figures are from Artizan Thrilling Tales line :):
PLP121 - Phillipe and PLP025 - Lieutenant Gaarder (SBS)
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Very nice indeed!
It has inspired me to start some similar project
maybe the "Kingdom of Curinam" somewhere in the south americas with british/french/southamerican influence!
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It has inspired me to start some similar project
maybe the "Kingdom of Curinam" somewhere in the south americas with british/french/southamerican influence!
don't forget the lost mayan temple, the rope bridges, the crocs in the river and the lost tribes!
cheers
matt
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I had a lost tribe once. It was alright though because it turned up behind the couch during spring cleaning.
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Bummer; I just tried to locate the Nazi chick wearing silk stalkings and carrying a submachine gun, but to no avail. She would have made a great arch nemesis. :'(
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I do believe you are referring to Grindhouse Minatures' Gretel von X. Also be sure to check out her sister Ilsa von X. :-*
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:o WOW I'm very impressed - thanks for sharing.
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so your spaceship is called the 13th Floor Elevators?
Wow, another enlightened soul on the forum... ;) I feel all nice and warm all the sudden.
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Bummer; I just tried to locate the Nazi chick wearing silk stalkings and carrying a submachine gun, but to no avail. She would have made a great arch nemesis. :'(
Please look here:
http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=188_190&products_id=1476 (http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=188_190&products_id=1476)
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Nice use of the plastic warhammer tower as non-fantasy scenery too. lol
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gonna miss me baby...