At the moment Morvalonesia exists only as a setting for our games set in the
period of 1900-1930 with an interesting mix throughout the period. Really,
it was inspired by our childhood addiction to comic books and pulp era books and
films. Then at about the same time came the excellent figures from Bob
Murch at Pulp Figures and Mark Copplestone's "High Adventure" and "Back of
Beyond" coupled with beasties from HLBS and various toy shops - including a
stunning King Kong from the Early Learning Centre sale as well as others.
A walk round the Poundstore yielded several DVDs of the period, a rake around
the old VHS boxes came up with "She", "Lost World" (lots of versions), King Kong
(old) and so on. Slim was looking at including superheroes in his
Hoodsville scenarios and so from Morval Earth and Morvalistan grew Morvalonesia.
The rules are still being tested and are a variant on Slim's Gangster set.
If you fancy a shot at trying them send me an e-mail on
info@morvalearth.co.uk
Any way a few taster photos of our first couple of games.
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Our heroes! Copplestone figures in in a
repainted Lledo truck. |
The evil Lai Ying Lo makes off with the
hostages. (Pulp Figures) |
A truck load of Pulp Chinese Infantry. Truck
is a converted Disney Atlantis model. |
Copplestone Germans are looking at some
Chinese Bandits in the swamp. |
Pulp & Copplelstone Chinese Bandits watch
Germans in the swamp |
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More Heroes in a Lledo car. |
Almost an accident! Chinese drivers
narrowly avert skidding into each other. |
The lead truck rounds the bend. The
Evil Germans and bandits are not far away. |
On top of the hill actually! Grenades
rain down like - well rain! |
Ambush at the crossroads. The stay back
Chinese fight it out with the pursuit column. |
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The Junk sails peacefully by stopping the
ferry from working. The junk is a model acquired at a sale. |
The "safe side of the river. The German
leader orders the coolies to operate the ferry. (Ainsty castings) |
The ambush battle at the crossroads rages on,
grenades and bullets fly. |
The Junk sails on ignoring the action
completely. The last remaining truck is embarked on the ferry. |
At last the ferry starts to work. Too
late for Leutnant Otto Nobettar who is severly wounded and captured in a
gallant action. |
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The pursuers break through, our heroes are
thwarted, Lt Otto Nobettar is taken prisoner. |
The truck and the hostages reach safety! |
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