New SE Card Preview - Crimson Oni

This was shown on the Pulp City website last week; the is probably quite close to how the final cards will look. The plan is that the new cards will be available as a bundle at near to cost price to make it easier for people to replace their existing cards. we know it will be a commitment to change over, but we do feel it is worth it, that the game is more accessible in terms of rules, and plays faster and more dynamically.

Crimson Oni:

Welcome

A hale and hearty 'welcome to the blog' to Anne O'Leary, the 127th Follower of the blog. Thanks for signing up Anne, and thanks of course to everyone else who has signed up. And a huge thanks to my main gaming buddy Rob, for if he had not started blogging, then I would not have been inspired to follow suit.

Looking back at my very first post almost 3 and half years ago, I can see that the blog has changed a little over time - probably featuring less tangential 'other stuff' than I had intended, and of course as I have transitioned from passionate fan to being involved behind the scenes that has had an impact on my hobby.

Well after Salute I am determined to get more Pulp City minis painted, and hopefully as many new games in as possible. I hope to demo SE at a local club and FLGS so watch this space. On the painting front: this week I have prepped the Primates of Power; Red Bella; and Slug Muldoon. A few others await prepping like 3 Terror Cotta Warriors; Green Emperor; Green Serpent; V.H. and Blacksmith. I also have a Grimm Elder and Night Fright and Leeech in the painting queue. I want to make sure I have painted 4-5 Pulp City minis by the end of May. Time to get cracking!

Heavy Metal

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It has taken me quite a while to get around to posting my Team shot of Heavy Metal, so apologies for that.

Apologies too for the ropy picture, but trying to get that number of minis in focus around the Giant Hadron model was a pain, so this was the best I could manage. I got my new Pulp City at salute (20th April) so look forwards to new painted stuff appearing sooner or later.

Heavy Metal are the celebrities of Pulp City's Heroes; they are the ones that the city turns to in times of greatest need, lead by the mighty C.O.R.E.

(centre)

• Giant Hadron: Size changing Supreme.

(surrounding Giant Hadron counter-clockwise from the back left ):

• Iron Train: Pulp City stalwart, this old-timer is every inch the blue-collar hero.
• Chronin: Time-bending warrior.
• Nuclear Jones: Nuclear powered cyborg, and Nuke's brother.
• Lady Cyburn: Punk flame-throwing cyborg, currently assigned to Heavy Metal on probation due to past crimes.
• C.O.R.E.: Possibly the most-intelligent being on earth; a sentient technological life-form able to adopt different battle forms to best fit the mission needs.
• Mini Hadron: Size changing Supreme.
• Captain Hadron: Size changing Supreme.
• Dr. Mercury: Tragic hero reborn into a living metal body.
• Androida: Super-fast artificial intelligence.

(front row)

• Access Points: Remote support units (Minions).

Welcome

A new welcome to the 'Pulp Citizen' post, this time going out to Captain LOL, author of two blogs: Bretonnian Knights and Figurine Passion. Both feature some lovely paint worth and are well worth a look.

Thanks to Captain LOL, and as always, to everyone who chooses to sign up - I do appreciate it.

On my own hobby front, well things have been over-shadowed buy the work we have been doing in the Open Beta phase; I recognize the need to get some minis painted up as soon as possible. To that end I have been working a bit on Night Fright and Leech and another Grimm Elder.

I have also picked up a suitable undercoat spray for my first Pulp Monster; expect something big, scaly and green in the next few months!

So thanks again guys, and hopefully there will be more new posts soon. First up, I hope to get a group shot of Heavy Metal done now that all the Hadrons and current available minis are painted.

Anima Tactician (shameless plug)

A quick shameless plug for one of my other blogs: Anima Tactician.

Anima Tactician (link) is Anima Tactics-centric; therefore the content is all about my forays into that game and related topics.

Anima Tactics is a tabletop minis game, using a pretty low model count, and clearly influenced by Japanese console rpgs such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Breath of Fire et al.

So far I have painted 13 minis for the game (having kicked off my painting in earnest late last year), and I hope to get that to around 30-40 by the end of this year - eventually I would like to have at least one painted example of every mini in the range, just as  I have been trying to do for Pulp City (and currently I only have around 5 models to go to do that).

So please come across and check out the blog as I stumble through what is for me a fairly new hobby diversion.

Pulp City Open Beta

The Pulp City Open Beta has been up and running for a while now.

The various downloads can be found with this link.

We will be closing this phase down and setting changes to the various Supremes, so if you want to provide feedback or thoughts, then best to get over to the Pulp City Forums as soon as possible.

The Forums can be found with this link.

Let us know what you think - what works, what does not, what you like, what you miss.

Contest Time (Over on ToaTS)

Hendybadger of the most excellent Tales of a Tabletop Skirmisher has launched a contest to win one of not one, not two, but three Pulp City Teams.

Follow this link to his blog post where he explains the contest.

It is really straightforwards to enter and winners will be decided at Salute on April 20th.

So what are you waiting for? ;)