Steel Juggernauts update

Just received 21 new tanks for SJ.
Time to try some larger scenarios (I'll try to post some pics soon).
Playtesting is going on.... stay tuned!

SJ sneak preview

Yesterday evening we had another session of playtesting for Steel Juggernauts. I set up a very basic table (just a couple of woods and hills) and voluntarily prepared an unbalanced scenario with three T34 Vs. three StuG III. Even if we did not finish the game (we talk a lot, discuss rules, swiftly change subject and then come back to the game) the outcome would have been in line with my expectations.
The game seems OK, it is quick and bloody and offers more than a challenge to players.
Optional rules will allow for more "complex" style of play, but the basic rules flow in the way I want. More 15mm tanks are coming.... :)

An old project coming to life

While driving back from S. Marino last week, Andrea and me talked about a 2008 project of a game I designed in 2002 while I was living in Bologna. The game is a simple WW II tank combat at platoon level. In Bologna, we played with it an entire winter at the Club, and I remember I painted some 30 tanks in 1/72 scale. Now that WW II gaming has a larger audience, thanks to games like Flames of War and the like, and 15mm tanks are at hand in great quantity and assortment, we decided to revive the 2008 project of releasing it.
At that time, we took the rules as they were and sent them out to 3-4 playtest teams, but then we were busy with other games and did not follow up.
Now we'll do it.
Since a week, I am re writing the rules (simplifying here and there some concepts and using the experience made with other Ganesha Games) and testing the changes with Andrea and some other friends. The aim is to release the game at the end of summer this year.

STEEL JUGGERNAUTS (that's the name of the game) will be completely different from other Ganesha games, and will be one of a series of games Andrea, me, and other authors will propose to our audience. All fast-play, easy to learn games with some innovative game mechanics.
I hope you'll enjoy it....