Pulp Alley

We had our first game of Pulp Alley last night, I had only recently become acquainted with this game but it looked quite interesting and most importantly for me it gives me a chance to bring a bunch of figures to the gaming table that have yet to be used. I have a lot of painted figures that have been sitting in cabinets never being the light of day. These include figures from the Carnevale and Empire of the Dead kickstarters as well as a bunch of Lovecraftian figures from the Mansions of Madness tabletop games. 

The really cool thing about this game is that you completely get to design your gang (called Leagues). Each character depending on their level has multiple possible abilities to pick from and the League itself can take on characteristics of their own. 

Since last night was a virtual game and all the figures I have for Pulp Alley are in Montreal and I am in Salem now, I used P-Y's Purple Cultists and constructed a league around them. Certainly in retrospect, I would have done things quite differently but it was an excellent exercise for me as League Construction is one of the most important and fun aspects of the game. Here are our 2 leagues.

The terrain was set up according to the first scenario in the Perilous Island campaign. First up was pulling a random event for each league, I got an extra figure, a simple shooter called Vladimir. I forgot what P-Y received. I will not go into the game play but we were able to complete the 6 turn game in a little over 2 hours. this is pretty good virtually as well as the fact that I had not played before. I think P-Y has played a couple of times. Although, I got completely crushed, I learned an enormous amount about the game and it was a great deal of fun.

Bruno took down both Dragon and Slobodan

By the end of the game I had only 1 figure standing!

Initial Set up