"Astounding Pulp Adventure!" Battle Report.
As a slight background, our home-brewed pulp rules are set in a hypotherical world where America never entered WW1, and Germany conquered northern France. Fascist governments arose in Italy, Spain, and southern France during the war, leading to large, loosely aligned Catholic powerbloc in the Mediterranean. Great Britain has its hands full, since Ireland successfully revolted, with that revolution being usurped by communists. Now to more recent events…
A well renowned German Colonel (Barron Otto von Kowboyskiller)had come across an object of reputed mythical power while helping to supress an uprising of natives in the Belgian Congo. After several harrowing adventures, he and his crack company of Seabattalion had gotten the object across the Sahara and Mediterranean, through the semi-hostile Southern European Bloc, and safely on its way to the Kaiser in Germany. Once the object was safely secured on the German railway system, he turned his attentions towards his next mission in the name of the Kaiser. He assumed the Berlin garrison (primarily composed of Great War veterans) could handle the final leg of the transfer.
Unfortunately, the train is hijacked outside of Berlin by a crazed Cthulhu cult leader (Obed Marsh), who had fled America after a failed assault of Boston with summoned Deep Ones. Obed had sensed a magical nexus point forming in Berlin. A Lutheran church stood on the remains of a Dark Age Cathedral, a nearby museum had just acquired Central American Olmec Heads, and an adult bookstore sitting on the former site of a pagan sacraficial grove had a copy of "Unsprekenable Kulten" gathering dust on a back shelf. With his intercepted voodoo mask, Obed figured he could summon great unspeakable things at this nexus.
Meanwhile, a crack papal para-normal inquisition team (led by Brother Le'Sheck) had followed the trail of the mask though southern Europe, and were determined to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. Their numbers had been diminished in several failed attempts to wrest the object from the Kaiser's minions, but the had recieved reinforcements in the form of Irish mercenaries. Furthermore, they had arranged for a get-away train for the long journey from Berlin to Rome.
Some time earlier, a small force of Spanish Fascists had been approached by Catholic Inquisition, seeking aid in acquiring the mask. The fascists had turned down the offer, which had resulted in the Inquisition's hiring of the afore-mentioned Irish Mercs. Oddly enough, after a hard night's drinking, 20 of these same fascists found themselves waking up in the back of a delivery truck on the outskirts of Berlin. Convinced that they could not return to Spain without a souvenier of their mishap, the decided to try and grab the voodoo mask for themselves. Their base of operations was to be the delvery truck itself, which unfortunately was being driven around erratically by the myoptic delivery driver.
Throw in a sprinkling of notable bystanders (female American reporter, crazed butcher-surgeon, rugged adventurer with an affinity for Olmec heads, tommy-gun wielding ruffian, etc.) and you have the classic urban scenario of "Who has the football?". Spikey-helmeted German veterans versus Cultist-led Deep Ones versus Papal hit-sqad versus Spanish fascists.
Given that the set-up of the scenario has taken so much space, I'll shoot to the end results: One sqare mile of Berlin in completely destroyed. The Kaiser's spokesmen hint that the devastation resulted from an accident involving a new secret weapon (derr octo-bomb), and threaten hostilities against Spain. There are no survivors from the Spanish or German troopers involved. Two ranking Inquisition officers are recovering in a hospital in Rome, but with all of their recent memory apparantly erased. Cthulhu cultist in backwater America are searching for a new leader. Meanwhile, a myopic delivery driver is wheeling around southern France in the company of a spunky American female reporter, who possesses photographs and a true account of what really happened…
makes flight stands for 1/300 scale aircraft.
