Pulp Alley BATREP: Davy Crockett and the Spy at San Sebastiano

Finally got around to playing this scenario for Pulp Alley.  Pulp Alley is a skirmish game that plays like the old radio and television serials of the 1930's-1950's felt.  So, taking my characters from Disney's Davy Crockett series, We started playing a campaign set in 1835-36 during the Texian Revolution.

The sides included Col Crockett and his band of volunteers against Capitan Vargas and his Cazadores, both are ordered to San Sebastiano for the same reasons.

Col Crockett and his Volunteers

Capitan Vargas and his Cazadores

We started out at opposite ends and I began moving along the alleys as my son fanned out across the plaza.

Crockett and his band merrily stroll down the plaza.

My cazadores made first for the jail and the chapel, to secure the Texas Ranger and the suspected spy.

Cazador Chavez moves to the iglesia.

My son's character George Russel went to stop a soldier harassing a girl at a cantina and was knocked down for his gallantry.

Georgie is knocked down, either by the soldier or the girl.
He never explained which.

 Eventually, he won the challenge.  Also in the first round, Asa Walker strayed too close to a Prickly Pear and was knocked out of the fight after failing a peril challenge.

A good old fashioned San Sebastiano street brawl.

By the third turn, Culebra was in the jail securing the Ranger as a prisoner, Chavez was in the chapel and Sgt. Mendoza was about to start a brawl.  As Hector charged Davy Crockett, the good Sergeant fired at Busted Luck across the street and waded into the fisticuffs. Davy's indian ally also joined in the fray, which lasted about three turns!

Busted Luck helps Davy out of a tight spot.

We interrupt this game to bring you a two year old that kept hogging all the dice.

More dice, please!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.


Meanwhile, Thimblerig had made it into the Commisario's headquarters and evaded a peril, spiking the cannons in the courtyard.

Spiking the cannons.

Shortly thereafter, Capitan Vargas raced in followed by George.  There was some gunplay in the courtyard, but Vargas made it into the office, with a slight wound.

Gunplay in the courtyard.

The Commisario had his orders, secured the Mexican maps and jumped out a window, leaving George and Thimblerig behind.

My son was able to play a card to disengage Davy from the brawl.  Davy and George then converged on the church to secure the spy, firing at Capitan Vargas and Culebra on the way.  He also played a card to trip up Culebra, who fell down by the fountain and got in a brief gun fight before running into the iglesia.

Can Culebra make it into the Iglesia through a hail of Yankee bullets?

In the end, Busted Luck knocked down Hector and Sergeant Mendoza after Davy disengaged to help George.

Busted Luck had some good brawl rolls on the dice...despite his name.

My plans didn't go well inside the church, either:  the Priest/Spy put up a fight and knocked down Culebra (which caused the Ranger plot point to escape)!

One scrappy priest and Culebra is down before play ends.

 That meant my son had two minor plot points (Save the girl and spike the cannon) and I only one (deliver the plans to the Commissario).  No one had secured the spy, by the time the game ended.