Desolation Alley. Post-Apoc slugfest

Pulp Alley in the Post-Apocalypse!

Waiting on cyberpunk city terrain pieces, we ran Pulp Alley through it’s paces at an abandoned military base somewhere inside the North American Exclusion Zone. A Zone Exploration and Recovery Team (ZERT) got its collective head handed to it by a group of scavengers and mutants. ZERT’s effort at being all tactical and sneaky-devious tripped over it’s own boots when Krazy Ivan’s Filthy Few barreled right in. The situation dissolved into a vulgar brawl, with the massive Mongo blocking shots with those concrete blocks then pummeling everything he could see.

TERRAIN, OBJECTIVES, OPPONENTS

Main Objective: documents with location of underground bunker

ZERT 2. ( you can guess what happened to ZERT 1)

Krazy Ivan, his BFF Mongo, and some Zone low-lifes

TURN ONE AND TWO

The center road way open as a shooting gallery, both forces hug cover and advance on left and right flanks.

The Marked One and ZERT soldier take cover behind barracks

ExoSuit and Trooper at the Maintenance Bay.

Scavs snatch up minor plot point behind guard hut

TURN THREE AND FOUR

Contact! Nasty fights erupt around the Comms Relay as Scavs rush forward.

Exo Suit fumbles with minor objective while trooper engages scavs

Krazy Ivan and one of the Filthy Few back up Mongo

so how's that 'being all sneaky' thing working out? — so how’s that ‘being all sneaky’ thing working out?

ZERT trooper's unbelievable save against Mongo's pummeling — ZERT trooper’s unbelievable save against Mongo’s pummeling

Withering firefight. ZERT soldiers dropping like flies.

TURN FIVE AND SIX

It’s all over but the crying. Reeling, the ZERT crew can’t recover and goes down. The Marked One is the sole survivor. (could it be any other way?)

Fighting intensifies on ZERT's left. — Fighting intensifies on ZERT’s left.

Mutant and ExoSuit go toe to toe. Mutant's power sledge crushes the armor like a tin can — Mutant and ExoSuit go toe to toe. Mutant’s power sledge crushes the armor like a tin can

Mongo rushes the Marked One, who shoots then bails - discretion being the better part of valor. — Mongo rushes the Marked One, who shoots then bails – discretion being the better part of valor.

The game did run an extra turn, the scavs wanting to take down the Marked One, but he stood firm and slipped away to fight another day.

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CONCLUSION

We’ve been playing one-of games to get a firm grasp on PA’s mechanics. We need a few more, as we keep forgetting to play Fortune cards and minor stuff like that, but Pulp Alley still shines. Simultaneous combat and shifting initiative keeps both players engaged. The Plot Points (Objectives) focuses game play and tactics. It’s easy to tweak for genre-specific equipment/abilities (like the smoke grenades and power sledge) and robust enough to handle such minor modifications. End of the day? We’re enjoying it.

5 thoughts on “Desolation Alley. Post-Apoc slugfest”

Another badass report, in another of my favourite settings. Fantastic.

Where does the Mongo figure come from? Its single-mindedness has an appeal. I want one 🙂

ccglazier says:

March 19, 2014 at 5:08 pm

Thanks. Glad you like it.

Mongo is a Dark Age fig. Can’t recall the faction.

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Great post and sweet terrain and miniatures. Who makes the exo-suit?

ccglazier says:

March 20, 2014 at 12:06 pm

Thanks. Can’t recall the Exosuit’s provenance. I’ll hunt it down later. All I did was swap out the head for a Pig Iron helmet.

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