Thursday 21 April 2011

Part 3 Astounding Tales Pulp game at the Wargames Assoc of Reading

Remember these guys? Left unattended, Wu-Hu's captives free themselves and manage to start the Warlord's pride and joy.

Wu-Hu's NCO sneaks up on Yvette who is watching the fight for her sister and drags her away.

A wider shot, shows Indy and pals peering into the gloom of the cave. They see two red eyes gleaming from another Yeti at the feet of which lies the crystal skull skull! In the bottom right hand corner you see the truck which is now fixed and ready to go. The last primitive warrior manages to knock out Capitaine Gallante just as Mireille frees herself. In the background you can see some of Wu-Hus useless conscripts who are faced with the decision to fire upon the Warlord's favourit car or to let the ex-captives drive off in it. They choose to fire which manages to take out one of the escapees and a pair of headlights.


Indy elects to loop the skull with his bullwhip. Unfortunately he only succeeds in wrapping it around the leg of a Junior Yeti "very funny Dr Jones!". Shortround uses his pickpocket skill to dash in and grab the amethyst skull. Jones Snr brings the truck around to the foot of the cliff and by some miraculous STUNTS tests, the whole party (including the rather rotund Sallah make the jump into the vehicle) and drive off into the sunset.


The Epilogue - or whatever happened to Von Skarr?

Von Skarr's expedition went for a wander around the table, blazing away indiscriminately at bugs, Chinamen and primitives. They investigated the primitives village but found it to be empty. They were ambushed by another primitive band, but managed to successfully sedate a male and female. Much to their consternation, however they heard the unmistakable purr of Opel engines. The Germans had neglected to leave a guard on their vehicles much to the delight of Wu-Hu's men who managed to steal the two trucks and a Kubelwagen.

Results wise I awarded the game jointly to Indy and Wu-Hu as they most fully completed their objectives.

Capitaine Gallante survived and was rescued by Mireille and Trevor the cave boy - not quite theway it was supposed to happen.

The Yeti was very annoyed by the whole business.

Credits
Capitaine Gallante, Yvette............Jason "hop a long" Hussey
Indy et al.........................................Wayne "can I drive up the mountain?" Richards
Von Skarr........................................Richard "out for a walk" Smith
Wu-Hu.............................................Alice "I annoy Nazis" Smith
Primitives, Yetis, Bugs..................Ron "are there any of my cards in this pack?" Stewart
Director............................................Matt "I make it up as I go along" Slade

All figures painted by Matt Slade apart from the French, painted by Jason.

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