Golden Age Post War Hero Recap

Had a fine boxing day game with new characters. Started with a ww2 flashback where heroes raided a science bunker and Hitler got horribly burned then him and bodyguards killed with tommyguns as a villain tried to flee with his maimed body. Heroes captured the german scientists who made the nazi villains and set charges blowing bunker up with various stunned villains. As it turned out several characters were pre-super identities so one was a command hurling grenades and other was a pilot with a lewis gun.

Villains Included:
Shmertz a bald brute with a flail replacing his hand who specialises in torture
White Ape a albino racist intelligent gorrila banished from secret gorilla civilisation
Valkyrie a minor asguardian deity
Ubermensch a powerhouse and peak of super human development
Dr Gotun a feeble old scientist with a mauser
Barron Alptraum balding, with a monacle and dueling scars, had an electric rapier a weapon developer

Then jumped to River city 1949.

All characters now pro heroes and some had high popularity scores except Dr Strong who has made enemies of his former peers in Germany and not really trusted by Allies.

Sir Reginald Morgenstern called the heroes (now all official super heroes) to the Office of Superhuman affairs and recruited them to hunt possible ratzi villains who seem to be working together again and up to no good.

They went to work tracking various former villains. One, Dr Gotun was in the building working on making upermen for the Australian government in collaboration with the US government. As one hero had superhuman charisma she easily got some juice on another scientist Count Doom in a mental hospital and Barron Altraum was killed (no body found) working on the Woomera rocket range. 

Heroes on the Case
Avalanche a former commando with invulnerable skin and can grow 30 foot tall
The Amazing Bionic Woman, a former spy with lots of gadgets. rocket legs and enhanced charisma 
Ace of Aces a former pilot now with flight, hyper senses and regeneration
The Conjurer a stage magician with illusions and telikineses
Ramases an egyptian deity with flight and fire bolts and is a mild mannered archeologist
Dr Strong ex-nazi scientist who can take his miracle formula syringe to become a 10 foot tall brute. He was one who defected to the amazing bionic woman and they led the team to the bunker in WW2.

They heard White Ape was in a zoo and Valkyrie was reformed and now a hero. They went to the mental hospital and saw the scientist Count Doom with his unremovable iron mask. Of course, he had been replaced by a stooge and several orderlies using a weak version of Dr Strong's formula attacked the heroes but were defeated.

The next stop was a circus that Barron Altraum was hiding in and more super formula goons shot up their wonder drugs. Worse before he could be stopped a lion was given a new formula and grew to two stories tall. Heroes managed to win of course and not hurt the lion too badly.

Was a good session but I think 6 players and character gen is quite slower than 5 and I probably think 3-4 players are ideal for a campaign. I have a few spare villains but unlikely to get the same players all together again but will do a few more games.

I might rewrite characters a bit as the character took an hour and was tricky with large group and shortcuts were made and ppl didn't really know what to take. One player I convinced a lightning bolt barely better than a pistol wasn't great and he took TK instead so some similar tweaks for others. Ramases for example had average agility and missed often. The Amazing Bionic Woman was fantastic at shooting but a bit substandard at hand-to-hand but could slam anyone. 

The vibe of the game and setting era worked well enough. 

My SF campaign is on hold but getting to the point where gods and cultis are after them so probably not a great entry point for noob players. There is a risk players will end up being taken out of the solar system by enemies. Im struggling to make my patreon deadlines - had a family funeral to help with and a face infection from damaged tooth touching my sinuses.