1938. The tiny island of Hendrinskaga off the Danish Coast is occupied one night by well armed Nazi sympathisers, led by one Hans Gruber.
The Police Chief on the larger neighbouring island, Sven Svensonson, arms the crew of the Danish trawler Mermaid, and leads them on a mission to place the Nazis under arrest.
Thought up on the train home tonight , the game was a rough and ready playtest of our new homebrew 'Pulp' rules. The rules themselves thought up and expanded via text whilst commuting on the train over the past week.
The game was a roaring success and at the end of the night, despite the poor crew of the Mermaid being handed the Herring end of the stick, we had honed our draft rules into a workable and fun little system. Fast play, bloody, with a heroic twist and strong Pulp feel.
That's it! My eyes refuse to stay open for much longer. Back to the Britain of 1979 in a week or two, where there's a bit of a Punk revolution going on.
Cheers
Mark
This was a very productive game - there was a bit of headscratching when we realised that ideas that seemed ultra good on the train were actually not quite there but there were then moments of "eureka" when it gelled. In fact this was caught by the ultra mad moment when as Herr Gruber I decided eneough was eneough and marched down the street firing the bergman from the hip shouting "give up herring munchers and join the Greater Europe!" - promptly shooting two dead and pinned a third. Mark's patriots then lobbed a grenade. after a short grenade rule writing hiatus, the dust cleared and....Herr Gruber stood there, a bit shaken but still advocating PanEuropeanism - the hard way. His loyal cohort had give his life for the cause but Gruber was very much looking forward to a future belonging to him....
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Good looking game and very nice figures!!
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks Mike - still owe you for them too!
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Mark
Its funny how figs you used to own always look better when somebody else has them. I flogged a load of figures to somebody in Ireland and couldn't believe how good the painting looked on his blog.
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