Drums & Shakos Large Battles

Pushed by some interest from the Yahoo Group, I opened the drawer where the last version (4.0) of my Divisional level rules were sleeping since last april.
Reading again the rules I wrote after 6 months was a strange but positive experience. I asked myself why I did not go on, as foundations look very solid.
I decided that - once 61-65 will be finished - I'll definitely close this project and release the game.

Preparing for LUCCA GAMES

As last year, Andrea and me have been invited to Lucca Comics & Games (one of the biggest show of Comics and Games here in South Europe) which will take place in Lucca (Tuscany) from next friday to monday, november 1st. We 'll have a couple of table to demo our games and - for what concerns me - this will be the Italian premiere for "61-65", the company level ACW game I presented for the first time at Origins 2010. In these evenings I am trimming the rules, and my aim is to finish everything within november and then proceed with the translation and editing.
It will be nice to have the game released for Christmas... both in Italian and English.

Link to more pics from Terni

This is one of pics taken in Terni last week end. You can find them in Massimo's blog.
Follow the link to leadaddicted in the links section.

SDS at Mag Con in Texas (december 4-5)

The second edition of Mag Con ( www.mag-con.com ) will host an SDS table on saturday dec. 4th from 2 to 6 PM: Willy Schweis will be the GM. The Con will be in New Caney, about 30 miles north-east of downtown Houston.
Lately we received a lot of positive feedbacks from Texas, and I am very happy about that.
Justo Perez - the convention Organizer - loved our game and decided to stage a table notwithstanding the tight timing.

I hope to receive pics from Mag-Con!!

SDS demo in Colomiers (France)

Last weekend in Colomiers (France, near Toulouse) there was a big gaming show and our friend Jean made some SDS demo.
For the purpose, he prepared a 60x60 cm table and played with 250 points squads. Above is a pic of the table... The scenario had also 2 peculiar characters: a pig and a cow :)
BTW, Jean was the organizer of both SDS Tournaments in Pau.
Thank you my friend, and keep playing SDS!

Terni Tournament Winners

Here they are: Marco Gasbarri (above) winning with 2555 points and 3 enemy Officers killed. Marco is already Italian DBA Champion for 2010, and now he's trying to win the FIW (Italian Wargames Federation) Cup which takes into account the results from 12 different games.

Carlo Bandini classified second with 1887 points, 3 won and 1 lost. We are very proud of him (he's from my club :)
David Casagrande got the third place with 1673 points and 1 enemy Officer killed, 2 won, 1 lost and 1 draw.
And finally, Paolo Blasi who won a bottle of Chianti wine for classifying "not exactly among the first" :)
Btw, I am the "other guy" in all pics, and you can see Andrea Sfiligoi at the extreme right in second and third pic.
More pics to come, but this time with miniatures!!

Today's Tournament in Terni (results)

Here are some pics of today's SDS Tournament in Terni, which was won by Marco Gasbarri from Arezzo (above, right - while playing against Filippo, left). Marco won all 3 SDS Tourneys up to now and became Italian Champion of SDS one Tournament ahead. In Perugia next november 14th players will compete for the 2nd and 3rd place only. Congratulations to Marco!

Carlo Bandini from Terni classified second (above in the third round against Marco) but could not stop the Champion from winning.
David (above right, also from Arezzo) finished third, after a draw on the 4th round against Filippo from Florence. In the pic above, he's playing against Massimo from Rome (left).
The Cups for the winners. Tournament started at 10 AM and finished at 5 PM with exactly 1 hour for lunch on the spot (thanks to the catering service which was perfectly on time).
Next (and last) SDS Tournament will be in Perugia, at the CON "Magna con Phersu", on sunday november 14th.
Thanks to al participants!