Introduction
Quick couple of encounters with THW 5150 Back Alley BrightLights boardgame. PDFs just arrived from the kickstarter. Figures are from a
bunch of HO railway models off the internet.
My children picked out the figures to use for each character. Board is from MB Space Crusade. Really need to get some furniture!
The narrative is more like a description of what happened
rather than spicing it up. I ran out of
time to do so – more games on my agenda to play :-)
Prologue
Alec Weber starts the new day in New Hope City's Middleton.
Alec is a Rep 5 Basic Exotic with the Martial Arts attribute
and a job as Investigator.
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| Alec |
Chapter 1
Alec enters the GreenWood Garage building and encounters
Lacey Meadows, an Exotic. Lacey wishes to interact. Alec interacts with Lacey
and the result is a Success! Lacey Meadows is recruited.
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| Alec and Lacey |
+1 Increasing Rep for
successful interaction. Assuming not a +3 for completing encounter as
interaction is not that big an encounter.
Chapter 2
Alec and Lacey are still in the GreenWood Garage building
and encounter Ryker Villegas, a Criminal.
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| Alec and Lacey run into the criminal Ryker |
Ryker is a Rep 4 Basic Net Runner with the Slippery
attribute. Ryker is not on the best terms with Alec and decides on a
confrontation. The confrontation is not lethal.
Ryker Villegas is I cover and activates. Ryker Villegas is a Rep 4 Basic Criminal, Slippery who will
Shoot. On the inactive side, not in
cover are Alec Weber and Lacey Meadows.
Ryker hits Alec who ducks back.
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| Ryker fires at Alec who ducks back. |
Alec and Lacey are now in cover and activate. Alec will
Recover while Lacey will Shoot.
Lacey fires at Ryker but misses as he is in Cover. Ryker returns
fire but also misses as Lacey is in cover. Lacey returns fire and hits!
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| Lacey and Ryker trade shots. |
Ryker ducks back.
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| Ryker ducks back! |
Ryker decides that it is not worth it and leaves.
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| Ryker flees the scene |
Lacey also decides she has had enough and leaves. Lacey has definitely
had enough as Alec searches for her but cannot find Lacey anywhere.
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| Lacey also leaves, never to return |
+3 Increasing Rep for
a successful encounter, +4 increasing Rep overall but no increase in Rep.
Lifetime Rep is +4.
Verdict
Oh, did I have fun? Absolutely! The game is a stripped back version of all the other 5150 titles. But also fully compatible. I will continue to run through more encounters without changing the rules. It is a little vanilla compared to previous 5150 but certainly generates a similar narrative. More to come but have a few other THW boardgames to test out first..
Great stuff, loving the use of the HO Railway miniatures, never seen that done before. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve. Most of my terrain is 20mm for WW2 and wanted to play a few games of Pulp Alley set in modern times without getting new terrain for 28mm or 15mm. So I thought of using HO figures. I played a few games and took pictures but never wrote them up. I think this is the second time they have made it to the blog (my first game of 5 Parsecs from Home used these figures).
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