Fast and Fun Tabletop games from the creators of Song of Blades and Heroes
Photos from Dadi & Sudore (Dice and Sweat) 2010, Spilamberto (near Modena, Italy): Second Italian tournament for the national Song of Drums and Shakos championship: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/6934064/1/Spilamberto%20SDS%20Tournament?h=4c75dd
The second tournament had an attendance of 18 participants and was won by Marco Gasbarri. The tournament took place in a nice leisure activity center which also served good food.
Andrea Sfiligoi and Sergio Laliscia of Ganesha Games will be at Origins Game Fair June 23rd to 27th, running demos of their games in the Miniatures Hall. If you want to say hi, purchase our rulebooks or just try them, please stop by our tables or check the Splintered Light Miniatures’ booth in the vendor’s hall.
To see a full spreadsheet of our demo games, check here and download the miniature spreadsheet.
Printed copies of Ganesha Games products (Song of Blades and Heroes, Fear and Faith, Flying Lead, Song of Drums and Shakos, Familiars RPG, Mutant and Death Ray Guns, etc) will be available in limited quantities at Salute at Caliver’s stand for 12 GBP each. To make sure we carry the books you want, please send Ganesha a message using the contact form
Note that technically this is NOT a preorder: you can pay Caliver when you pick up the books. Andrea Sfiligoi of Ganesha will be attending Salute as a visitor and will carry the books in a backpack. The idea is make you save shipping charges.
Andrea Sfiligoi and Sergio Laliscia of Ganesha Games will be at Hellana 2010 (Agliana, Italy) on Sunday, April 11. Hellana is a mainly historical wargaming event. There is also a small but thriving bring’n’buy corner.
We’ll have a table for Song of Drums and Shakos and printed copies of our rulebooks will be available.
Cavalcade Wargames has acquired Dragonblood Miniatures. Over the next few months, they will be reissuing most of the models previously released by Dragonblood and expand the Dragonblood ranges.
In addition, Cavalcade will be supporting the soon-to-be-released Shadowsea rules, based on Song of Blades and Heroes. Shadowsea is a ruleset using the miniatures produced by Dragonblood Miniatures. Cavalcade will be producing new models for use with the ruleset.
Cavalcade will incorporate most of the Dragonblood models into its catalog. However, some of the models, such as the diorama sets, will only be offered for a limited time before being retired.
The first Italian SDS tournament will be held in Arezzo, Sunday May 9th, in the Star Shop/Fumettopoli store in via Piave 24, Arezzo.
Registration is 7 euros. There will be awards (a cup) for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, plus a prize for the best painted squad.
The rules used will be: SDS and MDS, with the latest release (1.2) of the Italian-language tournament rules, playing at 400 points.
To sign up, contact Sergio Laliscia through his blog.
in Italian:
Il primo torneo di Song of Drums and Shakos si terrà ad Arezzo, domenica 9 maggio, nel negozio Star Shop/Fumettopoli in via Piave 24. L’iscrizione è 7 euro e ci saranno cope per il primo, secondo e terzo classificato, e un premio pittura per la squadra meglio dipinta. I regolamenti usati saranno SDS, MDS e l’ultima release (la 1.2) delle regole da torneo, con squadre da 400 punti.
Per iscriversi, contattare Sergio Laliscia tramite il blog di SDS.
Flying Lead (written by Rich Jones and Andrea Sfiligoi, $8 pdf, 48 pages with two variant covers) can be used to play tabletop actions in a wide range of genres. From gang warfare to pulp action, from military operations to black-clad assassins, Flying Lead supplies furious fun at bullet speed! Lead a gang of mobsters, play cops vs crooks, or enter the brutal world of covert special operations and espionage. But will you have the guts to lead your force to glory in world where a street punk or an armed fanatic can blow you away as effectively as a trained soldier? Pick your force, roll those dice and find out!
Flying Lead takes the award winning Song of Blades and Heroes mechanics into, and even beyond, the modern world of high-powered projectile weapons. These core rules will enable you to play using a small table area and a handful of figures. By using our online force, weapon and vehicle generators, players will be able to customize their characters and get playing straight away.
Inside these covers you will find rules for:
hand-to-hand and ranged combat;
vehicular combat;
projectile weapons;
grenades;
morale;
advances;
profiles for cops, crooks, the Mafia, pulp characters, SWAT teams, Special Ops and WW2 soldiers, insurgents, terrorists, and more.
Flying Lead will be supported by a series of supplements providing campaign rules and scenarios, covering different periods and genres, from WWI to the near future.
So don’t waste any more time, grab those figures and dice, and watch out for the Flying Lead!
The 2009 Origins-Award winning Song of Drums & Shakos Napoleonic Skirmish Rules have been selected for the Italian Wargame Championship 2010. Several Tournaments are now being scheduled in Italy. One scenario-based tournament has been successfully organized in France (Pau) last year.
Official rules for Tournament play are being tested this week. They will be available soon as a free pdf download on this site.
Originally not designed for competitive play, SDS soon appeared to have all the requirements for tournaments: small playing space (90x90 cm for 25mm figures), small squads (8-20 pieces), 1 hour playing time, few terrain elements.
For updates on this and all matters SDS, visit the blog on http://drumsandshakos.blogspot.com
Ganesha will be attending GiocaCarpi in Carpi (MO, Italy) on Sunday, Jan.17th. Free admission. Demo table of SBH. Printed copies of SDS and MDS will be available.
After two years of using only blogs, we decided it was time for Ganesha Games to have a home on the net. So we have put together this site. It’s still in its infancy, but it will grow.
Hopefully, you’ll find this useful and easy to browse, with a little something for everyone.
Ganesha Games will attend Dadi.com in Crema, Italy, this coming weekend. We will have demo tables of Song of Drums and Shakos, Fear and Faith, Mutants and Death Ray Guns and Song of Blades and Heroes. Some new rules and profiles from the upcoming “More Drums and Shakos” will be used in the SDS scenarios. Meet us there!